"A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now." -- The New York Times Book Review It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of cent...(展开全部)

 拥有20多年工作经历的职业投资经理人。曾任世界银行投行部主管，现任Rock Creek Group 和Rohatyn Group等著名对冲基金的投资顾问，也是美国阿斯彭保险公司董事和布鲁金斯学会理事。  本书历时4年创作完成，对几位中央银行家的批评和对“大萧条”的系统回顾，成为对2008年金融危机的重要反思和借鉴。

With a keen sense of history and compelling narrative skills, Liaquat Ahamed gives us a vivid and dramatic account of four men whose actions led to the world economic collapse of the late 1920s. Many of us presume that the Great Depression resulted from a confluence of inexorable forces beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as economist Liaquat Ahamed expla...(展开全部)

As the global economy is racked by its worst crisis since the Great Depression, there is a renewed interest in the lessons to be learned from the world economic collapse of the late 1920s. Drawing on his best-selling book, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, noted author Liaquat Ahamed discusses the insights we can gain from the Great Depression about the forces ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 城山智子（SHIROYAMA, Tomoko）日本东京大学学士、硕士，1999年获美国哈佛大学历史学博士学位。历任日本北海道大学文学部助教授，一桥大学大学院经济学研究科助教授、准教授、教授，现为东京大学大学院经济学研究科教授。专攻中国近现代经济史，特别是近代中国的货币、金融和企业，兼及18世纪以来的亚洲经济史。其博士论文为《萧条下的中国：1931—1937年间长江三角洲下游的地区经济》（哈佛大学， 1999）； 最新研究成果为“负债中的公司：1895-1937年间长江三角洲下游纺织业财务安排之研究”。正在共同主持日本多所大学合作大型研究课题“帝国与网络：亚洲地区经济秩序”。 译者之一简介： 孟凡礼，2006年毕业于中国社会科学院研究生院，历史学硕士。主要译著有：《论自由》（[英]约翰·穆勒著，广西师范大学出版社2011年版/上海三联书店2...(展开全部)

Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation's oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial community." Now, with the sto...(展开全部)

In this highly acclaimed work first published in 1974, Glen H. Elder Jr. presents the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort. He follows 167 individuals born in 1920?1921 from their elementary school days in Oakland, California, through the 1960s. Using a combined historical, social, and psychological approach, Elder assesses the influence of the economic crisis on the...(展开全部)

Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said: "Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation's oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial community." Originally publi...(展开全部)

The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went into cardiac arrest in 2008, policymakers invoked the lessons of the Great Depression in a...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·伦纳德（Christopher Leonard） 商业记者，其作品曾刊登在《华盛顿邮报》《华尔街日报》《财富》《彭博商业周刊》上。他因深刻的报道，多次获得新闻界知名奖项。他曾出版《隐秘帝国：美国工业经济和企业权力的兴衰》，该书荣获：2019年《纽约时报》畅销书、英国《金融时报》2019年度最佳书籍、J．安东尼·卢卡斯WIP奖、2019年NPR最受欢迎的书、2019年《金融时报》/麦肯锡商业图书奖入围决赛、KIRKUS回顾2019年最佳书籍、2019年度《学校图书馆杂志》最佳图书。