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In Money and Tough Love Liaquat Ahamed offers a brilliant insight into the heart of one the world's most influential institutions. At turns factual, informative and others emotive and anecdotal, Ahamed joins in on the IMF's world missions to Washington, Tokyo, and Dublin in true James Bond meets The Financial Times style. Pulitzer prize-winning author and pre-eminent financial thinker, Ahamed reveals the human stories behind the headlines, ranging from chatting about the state of the economy to Irish cab drivers, to Dior with none other than the IMF's Christine Lagarde.

For the world's bankers, it is not April that is the cruellest month, but September. It is when most financial crises hit and the world's stock markets have their biggest tumbles. During the 19th and 20th century it was thought that the pattern was caused by the crop seasons. But even as agriculture has declined dramatically in significance, the seasonal spike continues. Perhaps it has to do with the end of the vacation season: all those well-heeled bankers, returning to work after the long hazy days of summer, are jolted back into reality.

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'With the same urbane charm that he displayed in his tour de force on twentieth century central bankers, Lords of Finance, Liaquat Ahamed now takes us on a witty, insightful journey into the heart - and the soul of the 21st century's most improbable financial institution, the International Monetary Fund.' - --Roger Lowenstein, author of "When Genius Failed"

'The second in the Visual Editions publishing roster, the book is liberally illustrated with Eli Reed's photo-journalism. The pictures burnish the sense of reportage... His gentle prose reads easily, even in some of the more technical sections, and the book is short enough to finish within a couple of hours. What he set out to do is humanise a faceless institution, of which he is rather fond, and teach a little economic history along the way. As such, it s a good introduction to the IMF.' - The Times

'A refreshingly non-jargonised observation of an enormously powerful institution that very few understand. Posing as the lay reader s ingenuous ally, even Ahamed pretends not to fathom the IMF although we know that he does really (how else could you fall in love there?)... Ahamed brings life to an institution that is too often deadened with jargon.' - Financial Times

'Ahamed is gifted at walking us through the facts and figures of financial crises.' - --The Sunday Telegraph

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  • PublisherVisual Editions
  • Publication date2014
  • ISBN 10 0956569277
  • ISBN 13 9780956569271
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  • Number of pages200
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