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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
History
A narrative history of the central bankers whose decisions helped produce the Great Depression. Gwern rates it five stars and credits it with opening up a domain he thought he already understood. He values it for revealing the human and institutional machinery behind interwar finance.
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Gwern Branwen
“I enjoyed this tremendously for revealing a new world to me where I thought I already knew the lay of the land.”
Five-star (★★★★★) review on Gwern's book-review archive.
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