- Biography, Capitalists and financiers, Bankers, Business
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth centuryIt is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Liaquat Ahamed
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 564
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Penguin Press, Penguin
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143116806
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“On August 15, 1931, the following press statement was issued: The governor of the Bank of England has been indisposed as a result of the exceptional strain to which he has been subjected in the recent months.”
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