# With Liaquat Ahamed @ The Nantucket Book Festival

Liaquat Ahamed won the Pulitzer Prize for *Lords of Finance*, his history of the central bankers whose decisions helped bring on the Great Depression. His new book, *1873*, reaches back to the first truly global financial boom — and the bust that followed. I sat down with him at the Nantucket Book Festival to ask the question a lot of readers are asking right now: with hundreds of billions of dollars a year pouring into artificial intelligence, is 1873 a preview of what’s to come?