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

Liaquat Ahamed: Lords of finance (2009, Penguin Press)
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564 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2009 by Penguin Press.
Subjects
- Capitalists and financiers -- Biography.
- Bankers -- Biography.