TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ahamed,Liaquat
TI  - Lords of finance: the bankers who broke the world 
SN  - 9781594201820
AV  - HG172.A2 A43 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Norman, Montagu,
KW  - Moreau, Emile,
KW  - Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley,
KW  - Strong, Benjamin,
KW  - Capitalists and financiers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Bankers
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [533]-544) and index; -- part 1. The unexpected storm, August 1914; -- Prologue; -- A strange and lonely man; -- The young wizard; -- A safe pair of hands; -- L'inspecteur des finances; -- Money generals; -- part 2. After the deluge, 1919-23; -- Demented inspirations; -- Uncle Shylock; -- A barbarous relic; -- part 3. Sowing a new wind, 1923-28; -- A bridge between chaos and hope; -- The Dawes opening; -- The golden chancellor; -- La Bataille; -- The first squalls; -- Un petit coup de whisky; -- part 4. Reaping another whirlwind, 1928-33; -- Into the vortex; -- Purging the rottenness; -- Magneto trouble; -- A loose cannon on the deck of the world; -- Gold fetters; -- part 5. Aftermath, 1933-1944; -- Gold standard on the booze; -- The caravans move on; -- Epilogue
N2  - With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Hilaire Emile Moreau, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century
ER  -