Lords of Finance

Informationen zum Autor With degrees in economics from the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard, Liaquat Ahamed has witnessed at close hand the way countrys' economic policy is made and executed as a professional economist at the World Bank during the 1980s. He has since worked as an investment manager, with a ring-side seat at a sequence of financial crises, from the collapse of the European Monetary System in the 1990s to the current 'sub-prime' economic downturn. This is his first book. Klappentext THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Second World War. Zusammenfassung THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Second World War.

Product details

• Authors: Liaquat Ahamed, Ahamed Liaquat
• Publisher: Random House Business
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781847943002
• ISBN: 978-1-84794-300-2
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 41 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; USA, Economic history, Popular economics, United States of America, USA, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), 1929 to c 1939 (period of the Great Depression)