Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Audiobook)

from Schmerguls

4610. Lords of Finance The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed (read 23 Aug 2009) (Pulitzer History prize in 2010) This is an awesomely good book, which is easy to read and tells an absorbingly interesting story. It traces the financial history of the world from 1914 to the 1930's. The...

from Chris469

This is an excellent international economic/finance history focusing principally on the period from the end of World War I up through the early phases of the Great Depression, but also taking the story on through the Bretton Woods Conference of June 1944. It focuses on the activities of the centr...

from 06nwingert

If you want to know why we're in the economic situation that we're in, I suggest reading Lords of Finance. This book gives about 30 years of history and economics-- 1900-1930-- and shows how the four most powerful bankers at that time caused the Great Depression. The author shows the parallels be...

from Miro

Another recent and excellent book on finance, this time the central banker's view from the 1920's and 30's. The author firmly puts the blame for the Great Depression on central bankers refusal to abandon the gold standard. Liquidity was restrained when it needed to be released, with the central b...

from Schmerguls

4610. Lords of Finance The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed (read 23 Aug 2009) (Pulitzer History prize in 2010) This is an awesomely good book, which is easy to read and tells an absorbingly interesting story. It traces the financial history of the world from 1914 to the 1930's. The...