Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2009.
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 564 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [533]-544) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781594201820 159420182X |