The age of turbulence : adventures in a new world

Greenspan, Alan, 1926-

Book 2008

"'The Age of Turbulence' is Alan Greenspan's incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life's journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to the present, in the second half of 'The Age of Tu...

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ISBN:

9781594201318
9780143114161
1594201315
0143114166

Description:

563 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:

"This edition with a new epilogue published in Penguin Books 2008"--T.p. verso
"With a new chapter on the current credit crisis"--Cover
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-544) and index

Contents:

Introduction
1. City kid
2. The making of an economist
3. Economics meets politics
4. Private citizen
5. Black Monday
6. The fall of the wall
7. A Democrat's agenda
8. Irrational exuberance
9. Millennium fever
10. Downturn
11. The nation challenged
12. The universals of economic growth
13. The modes of capitalism
14. The choices that await China
15. The tigers and the elephant
16. Russia's sharp elbows
17. Latin America and populism
18. Current accounts and debt
19. Globalization and regulation
20. The "conundrum"
21. Education and income inequality
22. The world retires. But can it afford to?
23. Corporate governance
24. The long-term energy squeeze
25. The Delphic future
Acknowledgments
A note on sources
Index

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975386

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