The success of Mr Lanchester's book suggests that other books on the crisis may be either too big or too obsessed with the personalities of individual bankers.

兰切斯特的著作一举成功，说明其他关于此次危机的作品可能篇幅过长，抑或太过沉迷某位银行家个性。

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ECB officials have said they are prohibited from doing so in the event of a restructuring, but bankers point out that they have rewritten their rule book often enough and could do so again.

欧洲央行官员说他们是禁止在此事件上有所行动的，银行家们则表示他们已修改相关规则。

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By contrast, Ahamed's book cleverly tells the story of the build-up to the Great Depression through the central bankers that tried but failed to stabilise the global economy in the 1920s.

相比之下，艾哈迈德的新书则机智地讲述了大萧条如何酿成的故事，故事主角是上世纪20年代那些试图稳定全球经济却失败了的央行行长。

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Tip to laid-off bankers: Crack a math book.

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The book also includes chapters with expert opinion to allow central bankers to benchmark their policies versus those of their peers.

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As I explained in a book I co-authored some time ago, in an environment like this bankers have grown up as abacus bankers, record keepers of money flows who derive income from seigniorage, from the passive creation of money through interest bearing-loans and government-backed securities rather than from true banking, and from active risk management.

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