Dimensions
158 x 238 x 48mm
Most informed readers take it as a given that th eglogbal depression - the consequences of which reverberated for decades and in many ways seyt the stage for WW2 - resulted from a confluence of inexorable events beyond any one person or governments control. In fact, as erudite economist LIaquat Ahmed explains, the decisions made by the four heads of central banks in America, Britain, France and Germany were inextricably bound up with one of the signal events of the 20th century. Operating without significnt government oversight, these four men were a sprominet in their time as Alan Greenspan is today, front-page figures of intense interest. But their names were lost to history, and their story untold, until now.Harnessing a keen sense of history and the narrative skills of the novelist, Liaquat Ahmed sets out to tell their story. The dramatic account of the lives of four men - an Englishman, a Frencman, a German and an American - whose personal and professional actions as the heads of their nation's central banks led directly to the world economic collapse of the 1920's.
