Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers who Broke the World 

金融之王：搞垮了世界的银行家们

* 很多人认为，大萧条是许多超出任何人或政府控制力的因素造成的。但里亚卡特.艾哈迈德解释说，其主要原因是英、法、德、美四国央行行长做出了错误决定。

* 艾哈迈德是投资经理，他以引人入胜的细节讲述了金融泡沫是如何产生的。

* 本书历时4年创作完成，对几位中央银行家的批评和对“大萧条”的系统回顾，成为对2008年金融危机的重要反思和借鉴。

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** Highly readable... [Ahamed] cannot have foreseen how timely his book would be.— Niall Ferguson

** A great read.— George Soros

Liaquat Ahamed 

Liaquat Ahamed holds degrees in economics from the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard. He worked as a professional economist at the World Bank during the 1980s and since then as an investment manager.--From the Hardcover edition.

利雅卡特.艾哈迈德

拥有20多年工作经历的职业投资经理人。曾任世界银行投行部主管，现任Rock Creek Group 和Rohatyn Group等对冲基金的投资顾问，也是美国阿斯彭保险公司董事和布鲁金斯学会理事。

With a keen sense of history and compelling narrative skills, Liaquat Ahamed gives us a vivid and dramatic account of four men whose actions led to the world economic collapse of the late 1920s.

Many of us presume that the Great Depression resulted from a confluence of inexorable forces beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as economist Liaquat Ahamed explains, it was decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown.

Meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England; the xenophobic and suspicious Emile Moreau of the Banque de France; the arrogant yet brilliant Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank; and the dynamic Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. These men were as prominent then as Alan Greenspan and Hank Paulson are in our time.

Lords of Finance brings a fresh perspective on the origins of financial crises and an arresting reminder that its individuals who lie at the heart of global catastrophe.--From the Hardcover edition.

本书讲述了次世界大战后这些中央银行家们重建国际金融体系的故事。20 世纪20 年代中期，他们似乎成功了：国际外汇市场稳定，资金流动自由，经济增长得以恢复。但繁荣的背后也出现了隐患，被公认为金融体系稳定基石的金本位制度约束了经济的发展。本书的后几章描述了中央银行家们在应对大萧条时那些无序和徒劳的努力。本书角度独特，不仅如一部优美的传记，情节引人入胜；又如一部有独特视角的经济金融史。

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