Lords of Finance follows the lives and eccentric personalities of four central bankers: Montagu Norman from the Bank of England, Emile Moreau of Banque de France, Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank and Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. While the 1929 Great Depression is often assumed to have been caused by a series of unrelated and uncontrollable events converging, Ahamed reveals that in fact, the economic meltdown was down to specific decisions made by central bankers who also set the scene for the catastrophic events of the Second World War. It is a revealing, non-fictional account of the events and causes of the Great Depression. Published in 2009, Lords of Finance was written by professional investment manager Liaquat Ahamed.
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