'Lords of Finance' Wins FT, Goldman Business Book Award

-- Publishers Weekly, 10/30/2009 7:17:00 AM

Liaquat Ahamed won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2009 for Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World, published by The Penguin Press. The announcement was made last night at a dinner in London. FT editor Lionel Barber, one of the judges, called Lords, “a brilliant book, which brings to life the 1920s and the role of its great public servants in trying, but ultimately failing, to manage the world financial system. A must for anyone who wants to understand economics.”

The award was established in 2005 and carries a £30,000 first prize.