Kyle Harrison
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Lords of Finance
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
- Author
- Liaquat Ahamed
- Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 564
- Recommended
- 2 times
Why it’s on the list: The four central bankers whose choices after the First World War produced the Depression — monetary policy as biography.
Won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History.
Where I saw it: @BoringBiz_ on X, November 29, 2025: “one of the greatest finance books of all time… Regret not reading it sooner.”
Re-surfaced (recommendation #2) in the reply thread to @typesfast asking “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 5, 2025) — a crowd-sourced list Kyle recovered by hand; the full list lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- Capital Allocation — allocation decisions at the level of a currency.
- Historical Futurism — the postwar settlement that set up the next war.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — recommendation #2: named in this crowd-sourced thread.