Lords of Finance: The Bankers who Broke the World
- ISBN-10
- 1440697957
- ISBN-13
- 9781440697951
- Series
- Lords of Finance
- Category
- Bankers
- Pages
- 564
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
Description
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.
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- 2011-09-30
- 576 pages
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