Finance masters

“Lords of Finance. The Bankers Who Turned the World ” ( born Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World ) is a popular science book by the American writer Liaquat Ahamed about the events leading up to the Great Depression . She tells the personal stories of four heads of central banks of the world's main economies: Benjamin Strong , Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York ; Montague Norman from the Bank of England ; Emile Moreau , heads of the Bank de France ; and Yalmar Mine from the Reichsbank . One of the main themes of the book is the role played by central banks, “persistently adhering to the gold standard, ” even “in conditions of complete disaster” ^[1] . The famous British economist of the time, John Maynard Keynes, appears in a book in a role opposite to central banks.

The overlords of finance. Bankers who turned the world
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Genre	popular science
Author	Liaquat Ahamed
Original language	English
Date of first publication	2009
Publisher	Alpina Publisher

The book was well received by critics and won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in history and many other awards, since it was published during the financial crisis of 2007–2011 and the events in it are considered to be directly related to the current financial situation.