1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers who Broke the World
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Köp båda 2 för 397 krIn spite of the attention paid exchange rates in recent economic debates on developing countries, relatively few studies have systematically analyzed in detail the various ramifications of exchange rate policy in these countries. In this new volum...
Strong, Schacht, Norman und Moreau - ihre Namen sind Legende, ihr Vermächtnis die schlimmste Weltwirtschaftskrise des letzten Jahrhunderts. Pulitzerpreisträger Liaquat Ahamed schaut ihnen über die Schulter, im Jahr 1929 an der Klippe des Abstiegs ...
'Highly readable... [Ahamed] cannot have foreseen how timely his book would be. -- Niall Ferguson * FT * 'Fascinating... a brisk, original, incisive and entertaining account of a crucial time in the world's economic history that continues to affect us all today. Anyone who wants to understand the origins of the economic world we live in would do well to read this book' * Michael Beschloss * One of those rare books - authoritative, readable and relevant - that puts the "story" back into history... a spellbinding, richly human [and] cinematic narrative. * Strobe Talbott * A great read. * George Soros * Absorbing [and] provocative, not least because it is still relevant. * The Economist *
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.