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Liaquat Ahamed£25 ($40)
“Liaquat Ahamed now takes us on a witty, insightful journey into the heart - and the soul - of the twenty-first century’s most improbable financial institution, the International Monetary Fund.” — Roger Lowenstein, author of When Genius Failed
“Not just hilarious but shrewdly provocative” — Gillian Tett, The Financial Times
Book
In Money and Tough Love: On Tour with the IMF , Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pre-eminent financial thinker Liaquat Ahamed offers a brilliant insight into the heart of one of the world’s most influential institutions: the International Monetary Fund. At turns factual and informative and others emotive and anecdotal, Ahamed accompanies IMF from Washington to the World Bank and IMF Annual Meeting in Tokyo and on World Missions to Dublin and Mozambique in true James Bond meets The Financial Times style.
Award-winning Magnum photographer Eli Reed’s people-behind-the-scenes photographs beautifully illuminate Ahamed’s fast-paced and insightful writing about the current financial climate.
Money and Tough Love: On Tour with the IMF is the second title from Writers in Residence, a collectable set of books that bring together some of the greatest writers and photographers on the planet to reveal the normally faceless organizations that shape the modern world. With Writers in Residence, Visual Editions is finding a third way between books and magazines.
Author
Liaquat Ahamed is the author of the Pulitzer prize-winning best seller Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World , which exposed the personal stories of the bankers at the heart of the 1929 Wall Street Crash. He is on the board of trustees of the prominent US think tanks the Brookings Institution and the New America Foundation. He has been a professional investment manager for 25 years.
What They Say
“Liaquat Ahamed now takes us on a witty, insightful journey into the heart - and the soul - of the twenty-first century’s most improbable financial institution, the International Monetary Fund.” — Roger Lowenstein, author of When Genius Failed
“Not just hilarious but shrewdly provocative” — Gillian Tett, The Financial Times
“Refreshingly non-jargonised observation of an enormously powerful institution” — Edward Luce, The Financial Times
Photographer
Eli Reed is an award-winning Magnum photographer and documentary maker, best known for his work in documenting everyday life in war-torn Beirut and US military action in Panama, as well as long-term work with black communities in the US.
Designer
Jeremy Leslie runs magCulture, dividing his time between designing, writing and curating. Recent projects include design direction of progressive online publishing project Aeon , creative direction for Luxembourg publisher Maison Moderne and the curatorship of QVED2014 . He is a passionate advocate for editorial design, regularly contributing to the creative press and international design conferences on the subject.
Writers in Residence Books
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush Number 01 — Spring 2014
Money and Tough Love: On Tour with the IMF Number 02 — Summer 2014
Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent Number 03 — Autumn 2014
Details
Published 24th July 2014
