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Liaquat Ahamed
Finance & Economics
American investment specialist and author of Lords of Finance (2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History.
Biography
Liaquat Ahamed (born 14 November 1952 in Kenya) is an American investment specialist and author. In 2009 he published Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. The book received numerous awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2010 Spear's Book Award (Financial History Book of the Year), the 2010 Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal, and the 2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
Lords of Finance presents portraits of four central bankers—Montagu Norman, Émile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht, and Benjamin Strong—and argues that the decisions taken by these men as heads of their respective central banks were primary causes of the late-1920s economic collapse. The book examines their shared fear of inflation, their effort to return to the gold standard, and the wider economic and political consequences of their policies, including effects that helped set the stage for World War II.
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Books by Liaquat Ahamed
Lords of finance
Lords of Finance (2009) portrays four central bankers and argues that their post‑World War I decisions—rooted in a desire to return to the gold standard and to avoid inflation—were primary causes of the late‑1920s economic collapse and helped set the stage for World War II.