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Mediocre analysis - [08 Apr 2010]
This book contains very little in the way of profound analysis or insights. The writing style is felicitous enough, though there were a lot of errors a good copyeditor should have caught. One thing that kind of irritated me was toward the end, where in...
is felicitous enough, though there were a lot of errors a good copyeditor should have caught...
www.amazon.com/review/R221OBA9LYZTIC...
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Absorbing history of a difficult subject by a fine writer - [23 Feb 2010]
Germany funded 90% of World War One through inflation and borrowings, 10% through taxes. A rather painless way to fund a war but only if you win. The pebble in the pond theory of history kicks in: the cause of Germany's collapse in 1933; the pebble being...
rather painless way to fund a war but only if you win. The pebble in the pond theory of history...
www.amazon.com/review/RGQS12K6TQZEH...
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Did not cover parts of the story that I wanted to know - [30 Jan 2010]
The book is aptly titled, as it is about the four men who controled the major banking systems of the world. However, from the reviews, I had expected more. I expected to gain a better understanding of the causes of the depression and how it either ran...
of the world. However, from the reviews, I had expected more. I expected to gain a better...
www.amazon.com/review/R2P83YD2QSGQGF...
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Another good business book - [27 Jan 2010]
This book is pretty good, but the best business book of the decade is Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle (John Rolfe, Peter Troob). It's an awesome, quick read and given that it was written almost a decade ago, but is amazingly prescient...
Through the Wall Street Jungle (John Rolfe, Peter Troob). It's an awesome, quick read...
www.amazon.com/review/R1I26EMO2...
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must reading for all those in finance - [24 Jan 2010]
I;M NOT A GREAT BOOK READER, BUT THIS HAS BEEN A REAL PAGE TURNER FOR ME. I LOVE IT!!!!
www.amazon.com/review/R3RDBQKRXLH...
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Disappointed - [18 Jan 2010]
Reading it last night, I found out that two pages had been torn out. I hope ther are not more further on.
further on.
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An unlikely page-turner - [15 Jan 2010]
This is an incredibly well-written book. I never thought it could be possible to write a history book with heavy emphasis on world economics and make it read like a suspense novel. Nevertheless, Liaquat Ahamed does exactly that. Starting in 1914 and ending...
book with heavy emphasis on world economics and make it read like a suspense novel. ...
www.amazon.com/review/R3R8QJDJVLC...
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The Perils of Too Much Debt - [08 Jan 2010]
The author argues that the inflexibility of the gold standard and the massive war debts led to the Great Depression. According to his analysis a central bank must expand the money supply when its economy contract, which is impossible when the country'...
to the Great Depression. According to his analysis a central bank must expand the money supply...
www.amazon.com/review/R38LJAH5G...
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Comprehensive, authoritative, must read for anyone interested in monetary economics - [30 Dec 2009]
This book is a stunner. The section on British, French, and German attempts to deal with the debts and devastation following WW1, and the monstrous pervasive inflation that followed can't help but cause one to reflect on the inevitable inflation the current...
debts and devastation following WW1, and the monstrous pervasive inflation that followed...
www.amazon.com/review/RGC2BXBHKDXYV...
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Riveting, Entertaining, Illuminating, Essential - [19 Dec 2009]
A simply marvelous, absolutely absorbing story - perfect grist for a PBS documentary - of the complex, overlapping, interlaced clusters of simultaneous (and preventable) blunders that produced the Great Depression and, consequently, the contemporary world...
the complex, overlapping, interlaced clusters of simultaneous (and preventable) blunders that...
www.amazon.com/review/R1HROX0F6...
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