Liaquat Ahamed

Liaquat Ahamed (* around 1953 in Kenya ) is an Indian- American author and investment banker who won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History for "The Lords of Money" . He worked for the World Bank and Fischer, Francis, Trees and Watts, a New York- based investment firm , among others . He currently serves as an advisor to several hedge funds and sits on the board of trustees of the Brookings Institution .

book

Ahamed published the book Lords of Finance in 2009 . The Bankers who Broke the World. It was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History .

The book is dedicated to the events that led to the Great Depression of 1929 and the devastating reactions of the world's largest central banks that followed. It portrays the lives and actions of then-chiefs of the central banks of the four largest economies: Benjamin Strong Jr. of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York , Montagu Norman of the Bank of England , Emile Moreau of the Banque de France and Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank .

In Germany the book was published under the title The Lords of Money. How four bankers sparked the Great Depression and drove the world into bankruptcy.

Works

• Liaquat Ahamed: Lords of Finance. The Bankers who Broke the World. Heinemann, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-434-01541-2 (American English).
• Liaquat Ahamed: The Lords of Money. How four bankers sparked the Great Depression and drove the world into bankruptcy. FinanzBook-Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89879-578-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ^ Liaquat Ahamed . Pulitzer Prize website. Retrieved November 23, 2011.