Up to a point, his narrative builds upon the previous scholarship of economists Milton Friedman, Anna Schwartz, Charles Kindleberger, Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin. But where Ahamed excels is in evoking the political, social and personal forces that led to disastrous economic decisions. His title refers to the four men who heavily engineered the era’s arbitrary policies : Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England; Benjamin Strong, head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank ; Emile Moreau, head of the Banque de France; and Hjalmar Schacht, head of Germany’s Reichsbank. Determined to restore the gold standard—seen as a precondition of global prosperity—they cooperated and quarreled. But" all the thought and work and good intentions," as Norman wrote years later. "achieved absolutely nothing. "Just the opposite: they set the world on the path to ruin. What did the four men referrde to in Ahamed’s book have in common
A. They were determined to bring the world out of the Depression. B. They made all the economic decisions for their countries. C. They all contributed a lot to the restoration of the economy. D. They all believed in the good function of the gold standar