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Yellen : the trailblazing economist who navigated an era of upheaval / Jon Hilsenrath.
Lippincott Library HB119.Y45 H55 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hilsenrath, Jon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yellen, Janet L. (Janet Louise), 1946-.
- Yellen, Janet L.
- Economists--United States--Biography.
- Economists.
- Women economists--United States--Biography.
- Women economists.
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)--Officials and employees--Biography.
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Akerlof, George A., 1940-.
- Akerlof, George A.
- United States--Economic policy.
- United States.
- Economic policy.
- Employees.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 377 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
- Summary:
- Chronicling the past fifty years of American economic and social upheaval, an award-winning economics writer examines what happened, viewing events through the experiences of two historic figures: Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary, Federal Reserve Chairwoman, and Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and her husband, George Akerlof, an imaginative Nobel prize-winning economist.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I LOVE STORIES
- 1. Yellen's Youth: "I'm Gonna Tell Your Mother," 1946
- 1967
- 2. Akerlof's Youth: Exotic Furry Creatures, 1940
- 3. Yellen at Yale and Harvard: Rowing Upstream, 1968
- 1976
- 4. Akerlof's Early Voyages: Lemons and the Hills of Olympus, 1968
- 5. Yellen and Akerlof Meet: In the Grips of a Long Inflation and a Fast Romance, 1977
- 1978
- pt. II BATTLEGROUNDS
- 6. Redefining Keynes: Inside the Ideological Battles That Shaped Yellen's Generation, 1940s
- 1980s
- 7. Yellen and Akerlof at Berkeley: Labor of Love, 1978
- 1990
- 8. Behavioral Economists: Remarkable Errors in the History of Economic Thought, 1980s and 1990s
- 9. Yellen, Akerlof, and Socialism's Failure: The Richtungskoeffizient, 1989
- 1994
- 10. Yellen Becomes a Central Banker: Confronting a Maestro, 1994
- 1997
- 11. Yellen in the Clinton White House: Boom Times and Boys' Clubs, 1997
- 1999
- 12. Trade in the Twilight of a Golden Age: China, Mexico, and Ricardo's Theory of Advantage, 1993
- 2001
- pt. III CRISIS
- 13. Akerlof Wins a Nobel, Yellen Returns to the Fed: Lessons from a Financial Bubble and Jobless Recovery, 2000
- -2004
- 14. Yellen as a Regulator: An Introduction to Frankenstein Finance, 2004
- 2006
- 15. Yellen and Akerlof See Storms from the Lighthouse: Nursing the Economy and Robby's Damaged Back, 2007
- 16. Financial Panic: Bernanke's Loyal Field Commander, 2008
- 17. "These Are Fucking People!": At the Center of a New Way of Central Banking, 2009
- 2010
- 18. Yellen as #2: Palace Intrigue, 2010
- 2014
- 19. Yellen Becomes Leader: A Summer of Summers, 2013
- -2014
- pt. IV LEADER
- 20. Identity Crisis: Akerlof's New Theory of Reds versus Greens, 2014
- 21. Yellen Leads the Fed: Flying a Plane with No Gauges, 2014
- 2015
- 22. Yellen Loses Her Job: Too Short, 2016-2018
- 23. Professor Robert Akerlof: Explaining a Red and Blue America, 2018
- 2020
- 24. Yellen Makes History: Cleaning Up Another Mess, 2020
- 25. Yellen Leads the Treasury: Trillions, 2021
- 26. Janet at War: Causing Bank Runs in the Streets of St. Petersburg, 2021
- 2022.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-362) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780063162464
- 0063162466
- OCLC:
- 1348949131
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