Title:
Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world
Author:
Publication Date as Range:
2009
ISBN:
9781594201820
9780143116806
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, c2009.
Physical Description:
564 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Awards:
Pulitzer Prize, History, 2010.
Abstract:
Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.
