Age of turbulence: adventures in a new world

By:

Greenspan, Alan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2007 Allen Lane New YorkDescription: 531 p. 24 cm ; Hard BoundISBN:

978-0713999822

Subject(s):

Biography Government economists Economic history International economic relations

Contents:

Introduction 1 City Kid 19 The Making of an Economist 38 Economics Meets Politics 54 Private Citizen 77 Black Monday 100 The Fall of the Wall 123 A Democrat's Agenda 142 Irrational Exuberance 164 Millennium Fever 182 Downturn 206 The Nation Challenged 226 The Universals of Economic Growth 249 The Modes of Capitalism 267 The Choices That Await China 294 The Tigers and the Elephant 311 Russia's Sharp Elbows 323 Latin America and Populism 334 Current Accounts and Debt 346 Globalization and Regulation 363 The "Conundrum" 377 Education and Income Inequality 392 The World Retires. But Can It Afford To? 409 Corporate Governance 423 The Long-Term Energy Squeeze 437 The Delphic Future 464 Epilogue 507

Summary: he 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 Turbulence Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour d’horizon of the global economy.

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Introduction 1
City Kid 19
The Making of an Economist 38
Economics Meets Politics 54
Private Citizen 77
Black Monday 100
The Fall of the Wall 123
A Democrat's Agenda 142
Irrational Exuberance 164
Millennium Fever 182
Downturn 206
The Nation Challenged 226
The Universals of Economic Growth 249
The Modes of Capitalism 267
The Choices That Await China 294
The Tigers and the Elephant 311
Russia's Sharp Elbows 323
Latin America and Populism 334
Current Accounts and Debt 346
Globalization and Regulation 363
The "Conundrum" 377
Education and Income Inequality 392
The World Retires. But Can It Afford To? 409
Corporate Governance 423
The Long-Term Energy Squeeze 437
The Delphic Future 464
Epilogue 507

he 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 Turbulence Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour d’horizon of the global economy.

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