Description
Product ID: | 9780755362684 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Alchemists: Inside the secret world of central bankers |
Authors: | Author: Neil Irwin |
Page Count: | 544 |
Subjects: | Banking, Banking |
Description: | Select Guide Rating SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2013. The inside story of the work of the world's most powerful central bankers, offering an unparalleled view from the cockpit of the global economy, as three men struggle to keep it from going down. When the first rumblings of the coming financial crisis were heard in August 2007, three men who were never elected to public office suddenly became the most powerful men in the world. They were the leaders of the world''s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank. Over the next five years, they and their fellow central bankers deployed trillions of dollars, pounds and euros to try and contain the waves of panic that threatened to bring down the global financial system. |
Imprint Name: | Business Plus |
Publisher Name: | Headline Publishing Group |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2014-03-25 |