- Published: 30 September 2011
- ISBN: 9781446494370
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
Lords of Finance
1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers who Broke the World
- Published: 30 September 2011
- ISBN: 9781446494370
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
... a brilliant and timely book.... Today's policy makers have learned from these dreadful mistakes, but they still have more to do to restore economic stability and bring down unemployment. They need to read this book.
Guardian
[a] fascinating and timely history
Ian Pindar, Guardian
[a] very readable portrait of the bankers who allowed the Great Depression to happen
Telegraph
Absorbing [and] provocative, not least because it is still relevant.
The Economist
Brilliant... a colourful monetary and financial history...Lords of Finance will help to educate as it entertains.
TLS
brilliantly readable
observer
'Fascinating... Anyone who wants to understand the origins of the economic world we live in would do well to read this book...brisk, original, incisive and entertaining.
Michael Beschloss
'Superlative... a subject of real fascination... Lords of Finance has the flair and wisdom to find a wide readership on the strength of its main ideas.'
New York Times
A fluent and indirect paean to Keynesian economics... this resonates with the contemporary turmoil in global financial markets
Financial Times
A salutary warning from the past about the unexpected consequences of policy mistakes at the highest level. Historical but topical
Financial Times
Ahamed unravels the story of the most terrible financial collapse in history from the perspective of the four men who were largely responsible: the leading central bankers in the United States, Britain, France and Germany
Mail on Sunday
Back in the 1920s and 1930s, enormous power was wielded by a quartet of central bankers...Ahamed provides a compelling and convincing narrative of these bungling, tortured bankers vainly trying to reconcile their conflicting duties to their countries and to the global economy. The strength of this book is in humanising the world's descent into economic chaos.
Robert Preston, The Sunday Times
Incredibly vivid
Press Association
I've read lots of books about economics this last year. This is one of the very best... Superb
Standard
NIALL FERGUSON: 'Highly readable... [Ahamed] cannot have foreseen how timely his book would be.
FT
One of those rare books - authoritative, readable and relevant - that puts the "story" back into history... a spellbinding, richly human [and] cinematic narrative.
Strobe Talbott
ROBERT PESTON: 'Compelling and convincing...humanises the world's descent into economic chaos.'
Sunday Times