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The courage to act a memoir of a crisis and its aftermath

The former chairman of the Federal Reserve documents his rise from a Southern youth to Ivy League professorships prior to the 2007 housing bubble burst, detailing the dramatic efforts to salvage the U.S. economy that made him "Time" magazine's 2009 Person of the Year.

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Main Author: Bernanke, Ben (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Bernanke, Ben.
Government economists > United States > Biography.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
Banks and banking, Central > United States.
Financial crises > United States.
Monetary policy > United States.
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Summary:The former chairman of the Federal Reserve documents his rise from a Southern youth to Ivy League professorships prior to the 2007 housing bubble burst, detailing the dramatic efforts to salvage the U.S. economy that made him "Time" magazine's 2009 Person of the Year.
Physical Description:xiv, 610 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-590) and index.
ISBN:9780393247213
039324721X
Author Notes:Ben Shalom. Bernanke was born on December 13, 1953 in Augusta, Georgia and was raised in Dillon, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters in Economics from Harvard University and a Ph.d in in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bernanke taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and New York University. He was a professor of economics at Princeton University. He served as chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. Time magazine named him "Person of the Year" in 2009. Since leaving public servce he has changed his political affiliation from Republican to a moderate Independent. He and his wife Anna have two children.In 2015, his larest book, "The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and its Aftermath," became a New York Times bestseller.

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