Alchemists: inside the secret world of central bankers (Record no. 178206)
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International Standard Book Number | 9780755362660 |
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Classification number | 332.11 IRW |
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Personal name | Irwin, Neil |
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Title | Alchemists: inside the secret world of central bankers |
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Headline Publishing Group |
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2013 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 430 p. |
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Summary, etc. | 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.<br/><br/>Neil Irwin's The Alchemists is both a gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we've ever seen, and an insightful examination of the role and power of the central bank. It begins in Stockholm, Sweden, in the seventeenth century, where central banking had its rocky birth, and then progresses through a brisk but dazzling tutorial on how the central banker came to exert such vast influence over our world. It is the story of how these figures and institutions became what they are - the possessors of extraordinary power over our collective fate. What they chose to do with those powers is the heart of the story Irwin tells. |
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Topical term or geographic name entry element | Global financial crisis 2008-2009 |
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Koha item type | Books |
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Not Missing | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2020-02-08 | 1 | 332.11 IRW | 159003 | 2025-05-21 | 2025-05-19 | 2020-02-08 | Books |