Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

In his history of economics between World War I and World War II, Liaquat Ahamed shows how the four men who ran the central banks of France, Britain, Germany, and the U.S. set policies that inadvertently pushed the international economy into the

by Liaquat Ahamed

(Penguin Press, 576 pages, $32.95)

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