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Genre/Form: | Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Alan Greenspan; Alan Greenspan; Alan Greenspan; Alan Greenspan |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Greenspan |
ISBN: | 9781594201318 1594201315 9780713999822 0713999829 9780143114161 0143114166 9780143142591 0143142593 |
OCLC Number: | 122973403 |
Performer(s): | Read by Robertson Dean. |
Awards: | Short-listed for Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2007 |
Description: | 531 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- Index. |
Responsibility: | Alan Greenspan. |
Abstract:
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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