Ilan Elrom Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Interested in central banking, econ policy, and finance. Avid reader. Public Finance @BarclaysCIB. PPE Honors BA ‘22 @UMich. Activity my own.

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Liaquat Ahamed
@ThomasWLamont America’s Bank by Roger Lowenstein and Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed are both great and fit that bill. The Caesars Palace Coup kinda does, too. Non-finance but Shoe Dog by Phil Knight is fantastic. The Economists Hour by Binyamin Applebaum sounds similar but haven’t read it.
Paperback, 2009
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19
Ben S. Bernanke
@Benchimolium @federalreserve Good discussion on these topics and the like in Ben Bernanke’s new book, “21st Century Monetary Policy”
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom
@EJLongman Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, classic memoir
Paperback, 2002
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?: The United States, the Imf, and the International Lender of Last Resort
Daniel McDowell
@bcheungz @daniel_mcdowell @MaxwellSU @YahooFinance Very interesting conversation; Just recently finished “Brother, Can You Spare A Billion?” @daniel_mcdowell and loved it!
Paperback, 2018
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight
@ThomasWLamont America’s Bank by Roger Lowenstein and Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed are both great and fit that bill. The Caesars Palace Coup kinda does, too. Non-finance but Shoe Dog by Phil Knight is fantastic. The Economists Hour by Binyamin Applebaum sounds similar but haven’t read it.
Paperback, 2018
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
Roger Lowenstein
@ThomasWLamont America’s Bank by Roger Lowenstein and Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed are both great and fit that bill. The Caesars Palace Coup kinda does, too. Non-finance but Shoe Dog by Phil Knight is fantastic. The Economists Hour by Binyamin Applebaum sounds similar but haven’t read it.
Paperback, 2016
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book