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The age of turbulence : adventures in a new world / Alan Greenspan.
LIBRA HB119.G74 A3 2007
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Lippincott Library HB119.G74 A3 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenspan, Alan, 1926-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greenspan, Alan, 1926-.
- Greenspan, Alan.
- Government economists--United States--Biography.
- Government economists.
- United States--Economic conditions--1945-.
- United States.
- Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 531 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- After 9/11, Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, knew, if he needed any further reinforcement, that we're living in a new world--the world of a global capitalist economy that is vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, and fast-changing than it was even 20 years ago. It's a world that presents us with enormous new possibilities but also enormous new challenges. This book is Alan Greenspan's reckoning with the nature of this new world--how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good and for ill--channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy for longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- City kid
- The making of an economist
- Economics meets politics
- Private citizen
- Black Monday
- The fall of the wall
- A Democrat's agenda
- Irrational exuberance
- Millennium fever
- Downturn
- The nation challenged
- The universals of economic growth
- The modes of capitalism
- The choices that await China
- The tigers and the elephant
- Russia's sharp elbows
- Latin America and populism
- Current accounts and debt
- Globalization and regulation
- The "conundrum"
- Education and income inequality
- The world retires. But can it afford to?
- Corporate governance
- The long-term energy squeeze
- The Delphic future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [510]-512) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781594201318
- 1594201315
- OCLC:
- 122973403
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