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Author:

Ahamed, Liaquat.

Title:

Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world / Liaquat Ahamed.

Publisher:

Penguin Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

564 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Capitalists and financiers--Biography.
Bankers--Biography.
Norman, Montagu,--1871-1950.
Moreau, Emile,--1868-1950.
Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley,--1877-1970.
Strong, Benjamin,--1872-1928.
De Crisis.
Financiële aspecten.
Centrale banken.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Frankrijk.
Duitsland.
Verenigde Staten.
Moreau, Émile
Schacht, Hjalmar
Strong, Benjamin
Norman, Montagu
Wirtschaftskrise
Bankgeschichte
Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Zentralbank
Geldpolitik
Internationales Währungssystem
Goldwährung
Inflationsbekämpfung

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-544) and index.

Contents:

pt. 1. The unexpected storm, August 1914. -- Prologue -- A strange and lonely man -- The young wizard -- A safe pair of hands -- L'inspecteur des finances -- Money generals -- pt. 2. After the deluge, 1919-23. -- Demented inspirations -- Uncle Shylock -- A barbarous relic -- pt. 3. Sowing a new wind, 1923-28. -- A bridge between chaos and hope -- The Dawes opening -- The golden chancellor -- La Bataille -- The first squalls -- Un petit coup de whisky -- pt. 4. Reaping another whirlwind, 1928-33. -- Into the vortex -- Purging the rottenness -- Magneto trouble -- A loose cannon on the deck of the world -- Gold fetters -- pt. 5. Aftermath, 1933-1944. -- Gold standard on the booze -- The caravans move on -- Epilogue.

Summary:

With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Hilaire Emile Moreau, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century.

ISBN:

9780143116806 (pbk.)
0143116800 (pbk.)
159420182X
9781594201820

OCLC:

(OCoLC)233548111

LCCN:

2008044512

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