Reading Time
11 hrs 30 mins
How long to read Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World?
The estimated word count of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World is 172,360 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 11 hrs 30 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 19 hrs 10 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 6 hrs 24 mins.
| Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World - 172,360 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 19 hrs 10 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 11 hrs 30 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 6 hrs 24 mins |
- Authors
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Liaquat Ahamed
More about Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
172,360 words
Word Count
for Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
576 pages
Pages
18 hours and 32 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize"A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now."—The New York Times Book Review It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of that economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades. As yet another period of economic turmoil makes headlines today, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have, their fallibility, and the terrible human consequences that can result when they are wrong.