The man who knew the life and times of Alan Greenspan
"The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. As the most influential economic statesman of his age, Greenspan spent a lifetime grappling with a momentous shift: the transformation of finance from the regulated system of the postwar era to the free-...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "He has set a standard"
- Book I: The ideologue. The feeling of a conqueror ; The un-Keynesian ; The rebirth of money ; Ayn Rand's undertaker ; Against the New Frontier
- Book II. The politician. A libertarian for Nixon ; Do-nothingism ; "A minority of one" ; Between Thatcher and Kissinger ; The first housing conundrum ; Republican dreamers ; "Do we really need the Fed?" ; A Republican Volcker ; Without the cigar
- Book III. The central banker. "Greenspan's irrelevant" ; Light Black Monday ; The gun-shy chairman ; "You're the big guru" ; Maestro ; Alan versus Alan ; The zipswitch chairman ; Irrational exuberance ; "The best economy I've ever seen" ; "Uncle Alan will take care of us" ; Alan.com ; "A very surreal environment" ; Lowflation ; The four winds ; "I found a flaw" ; The blind roller skater.
