00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Ahamed, Liaquat aut Verfasser/-in Porträt Finanzkapital Bankier Weltwirtschaftskrise <1929-1932> Bedeutende Persönlichkeit Geschichte <20. Jht> Gesellschaft Finanzkapitalismus Finanzkrise Lords of Finance [1929, the Great Depression, and the bankers who broke the world] Liaquat Ahamed London Windmill Books 2010 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. (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History 2010). 9780099493082 9780099493082 009949308X 009949308X Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-544) and index; 0 564 S. : Ill., Diagr.