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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Alan Greenspan |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Greenspan |
| ISBN: | 9781594201318 1594201315 9780713999822 0713999829 |
| OCLC Number: | 122973403 |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2007. |
| Description: | 531 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Alan Greenspan. |
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The post 9/11 global economy is a turbulent system - more flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, and fast-changing. This title is a reckoning with the nature of this world - how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good or ill.
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Musings of a Misappraised Maestro
If there is a gene for optimism, Alan Greenspan likely inherited it in spades. When Greenspan was 9 years old, his father wrote a book called "The Recovery Ahead," about how the New Deal would bring the country out of the Depression and help it achieve immense prosperity thereafter. And contrary to...
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If there is a gene for optimism, Alan Greenspan likely inherited it in spades. When Greenspan was 9 years old, his father wrote a book called "The Recovery Ahead," about how the New Deal would bring the country out of the Depression and help it achieve immense prosperity thereafter. And contrary to what the title would intimate, this book seems to be just as optimistic.Greenspan is at his best when he explains complex economic ideas in plain English. Indeed, the hight points of this book are probably his soliloquy about the importance of trust in a capitalist society and his explanation of dutch disease. The trouble with this book lies in Greenspan's uncanny ability to use self-effacing humor to avoid giving the reader any moment of true self-realization. At this point (early 2008), Greenspan's legacy would seem to be in doubt because of the troubles in the economy relating to (among other things) the subprime mortgage market. Greenspan may use the defense "I'm just a technocrat" or "I only set interest rates," but all of those glossy pictures of him with world leaders in this book (not to mention the fact that he's married to Andrea Mitchell of ABC News), would seem to refute the idea that his powers did not extend beyond the Federal Reserve or the Federal Open Market Committee.The most famous Chairman of the Federal Reserve could and should have used his bully pulpit to shed light on the unscrupulous lending practices now plaguing the country. If he had, and if this book has been a bit more tough-minded, my review of his book and his place in history would not be so mixed.
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