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Roots of economic crisis: to truly understand the economic crisis now and its trajectory, it is instructive to know the causes of the Great Depression. Lords of Finance gives that background on a personal level.(Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World)(Book review)
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed, New York: Penguin Group, 2009, 564 pages, hardcover, $32.95.
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Once upon a time, when the world was still on the gold standard, four men destroyed the financial order of things by engineering, by accident or by design, the collapse of the world's economy. What is now known as the Great Depression is textbook history for every schoolboy, along with the names of the politicians--Hoover, FDR, and their counterparts overseas--who grappled with the challenges of the greatest economic and financial meltdown the world has yet seen. But the men truly responsible for the ...
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