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  • Wallenberg - The Family That Shaped Sweden's Economy

    Translated by Patrick Hort ...
    In Wallenberg – The Family that Shaped Sweden’s Economy, GunnarWetterberg traces the history of an outstanding Swedish family. He tellsof political complications and financial brainwaves and presents thefamily’s leading men and their feuds. Wetterberg relates the history ofthe Wallenbergs as a financial dynasty, intertwined with Sweden’s developmentinto a modern industrial nation. In no other ... Read more

    $8.34 USD

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    The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A magisterial work.” —New York Times Book Review“The rich and charming story of the end of the world.” —TIME“Highly readable.” —Financial Times“This absorbing study of the first collective of central bankers is provocative, not least because it is still relevant.” —The Economist**It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tower of Basel

    The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World

    by Adam LeBor ...
    A brilliant investigation into the most powerful institution you’ve never heard of.**“An absorbing and thorough examination.” —**ReutersThe Bank for International Settlements is the bank for central banks. It is one of the world’s most secretive—and most influential—global financial institutions.Created by the governors of the Bank of England and the Reichsbank in 1930 and protected by an ... Read more

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  • All Honorable Men

    The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System

    Series Book 21 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A scathing attack on Wall Street's illegal ties to Nazi Germany before WWII—and the postwar whitewashing of Nazi business leaders by the US governmentPrior to World War II, German industry was controlled by an elite group who had used their money and influence to help bring the Nazi Party to power. After the Allies had successfully occupied Germany and removed the Third Reich, the process of ... Read more

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  • The House of Rothschild

    Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999

    Series Book 2 - The House of Rothschild
    A major work of economic, social and political history, Niall Ferguson's The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1999 is the second volume of the acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty.Niall Ferguson's House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 was hailed as a "great biography" by Time magazine and named one of the best books of the year by Business ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Bretton Woods

    John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

    by Benn Steil ...
    When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The ... Read more

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  • Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler

    The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis

    'The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities... Not only was an influential sector of American business aware of the nature of Naziism, but for its own purposes aided Naziism wherever possible (and profitable) - with full knowledge that the probable outcome would be war ... Read more

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  • Bust

    Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis

    by Matthew Lynn ...
    Series series Bloomberg (UK)
    Athens, Greece—May Day 2010. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU) were putting together the final details of a $100 billion euro rescue package for the country. The Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou, had agreed to a savage package of “austerity measures” involving cuts in public spending and lower salaries and pensions. Outside, riot police were deployed as ... Read more

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  • Inside the South African Reserve Bank

    Its Origins and Secrets Exposed

    Stephen Mitford Goodson’s Inside the South African Reserve Bank Its Origins and Secrets Exposed sweeps aside the usual dust of economic theory to provide a thoroughly engaging account on the origins and purposes of the Republic’s central banking institution. Goodson does so as an “outsider” on the “inside,” a proponent of banking reform who became a non-executive director of the SA Reserve Bank. ... Read more

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  • Angela Merkel

    A Chancellorship Forged in Crisis

    Series series Bloomberg (UK)
    Shortlisted for International Affairs Book of the Year in the Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2014Angela Merkel was already unique when she became German chancellor: the first female leader of Europe’s biggest economy, the first from former communist East Germany and the first born after World War II. Since 2010, the debt crisis that spread from Greece to the euro region and the world economy ... Read more

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  • The Downfall of Money

    Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class

    An economic horror story: The complete meltdown of a major modern country's financial system, and its disastrous effects on every aspect of society.A hundred years ago, many theorists believed-just as they did at the beginning of our twenty-first century-that the world had reached a state of economic perfection, a never before seen human interdependence that would lead to universal growth and ... Read more

    $13.59 USD