Weekend Edition Sunday, February 22, 2009
Liaquat Ahamed's new book, Lords of Finance, is a history of the Great Depression that centers on the era's four most important central bankers - those in Britain, France, Germany and the United States. Ahamed writes that these men contributed to economic disaster - or, as he proclaims in the book's subtitle, "broke the world" - because they just didn't understand how economics work.
