You can't leave the chapter of The Great Depression if you have even a little interest in finance and economics. I pick up the book with a hope to get brief summary of the factors that takes the world into such a huge mess. I am thoroughly satisfied.

Book is divided in few sections. Starting from pre WW1 scenarios, it goes through one after another phase of the history....WW1 and the de-coupling with gold standard. Effort of major economies to cover the lost ground during the WW1 and how bad...

Lords of Finance is a Pulitzer Prize and Goldman Sachs-FT Business Book of the Year award winner. It describes the events that led to The Great Depression of 1929. The author has done a remarkable job by going into the personal and professional details of characters and has described the events at great length. The flip side is the book, half-way through, has so many characters that it becomes nearly impossible to relate them to the past events.

One may like to make note of characters while...

I am yet to finish this - but given my progress through about 50 pages - I was blown away by the amount of substance that this book holds. Value for money.

Reads like a novel. Couldn't be a better way to understand how we got to the principles governing economics and finance of present times

An absolute must-read! Liaquat Ahamed pores over the circumstances, personality quirks and the deep friendships amongst the central bankers of Europe and the USA in the '20s. The resulting narrative explores different conflicts faced by these bankers while they took the decisions that ultimately led to the downfall of the gold standard while bringing the First World to its knees.

As other reviewers pointed out, there are many characters in this book, making it an intense read that requires ...

Personal details of the people involved have been so elaborately mentioned in between that you may miss economic events and consequences. I think family details or childhood stories in some cases may have been ignored. But at the end, good experience gained if you are a very patient reader.