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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.11092
EAN: 9780143114161
Edition: Reprint
ISBN: 0143114166
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: September 09, 2008
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis as Federal Reserve Chairman, coming just weeks after he assumed control, had come much closer than is even today generally known to freezing the financial system and triggering a genuine financial panic. But the most remarkable thing that happened to the economy after 9/11 was...nothing. What in an earlier day would have meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly.
After 9/11 Alan Greenspan knew, if he needed any further reinforcement, that we're living in a new world - the world of a global capitalist economy that is vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, and fast-changing than it was even 20 years ago. It's a world that presents us with enormous new possibilities but also enormous new challenges. The Age of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan's incomparable reckoning with the nature of this new world - how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good and for ill-channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy for longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. He begins his account on that September 11th morning, but then leaps back to his childhood, and follows the arc of his remarkable life's journey through to his more than 18-year tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, from 1987 to 2006, during a time of transforming change.
Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life first simply with an eye toward doing justice to the extraordinary amount of history he has experienced and shaped. But his other goal is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so they accrue a grasp of his own understanding of the underlying dynamics that drive world events. In the second half of the book, having brought us to the present and armed us with the conceptual tools to follow him forward, Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour de horizon of the global economy. He reveals the universals of economic growth, delves into the specific facts on the ground in each of the major countries and regions of the world, and explains what the trend-lines of globalization are from here. The distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspan's personal and intellectual legacy. | | A Timeline of a Remarkable Career | | Mar. 6, 1926 | | Born in New York City | | 1936 | | At 10 sees Roosevelt campaigning; becomes expert on the 1936 Yankees | | 1938 | | Takes up clarinet at 12 | | 1943-44 | | Studies clarinet at Julliard | | Mid 1944 | | Joins Henry Jerome Band | | 1948 | | Graduates (summa cum laude) from New York University. (He later earns a master's in 1950 and a Ph.D. in 1977, also from NYU.) Hired as economic analyst at the Conference Board. | | 1954-74 | | Co-founds Townsend-Greenspan & Co. Inc., an economic consulting firm in New York City. (He returns in 1977.) | | 1974 | | Nominated by President Ford as chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors. | | 1983 | | Chair of bipartisan National Commission on Social Security Reform. | | June 1, 1987 | | Nominated by President Reagan for Fed Chair. Confirmed by Senate August 3. | | Oct. 19, 1987 | | Only 69 days into Greenspan's term, the Dow drops 508 points and 22%. | | July 10, 1991 | | Nominated by President George H.W. Bush to a second term as Fed Chairman. Later nominated to a third (February 22, 1996) and fourth term (January 4, 2000) by President Clinton. | | Apr. 6, 1997 | | Marries Andrea Mitchell | | May 18, 2004 | | Nominated by President George W. Bush for a fifth term as Fed chairman | | Jan. 31, 2006 | | Completes 18 ½ years at the Fed | | Feb. 1, 2006 | | Forms Greenspan Associates LLC, an economic consulting firm | | | Alan Greenspan's Top 10 Classical and Jazz Favorites
Before Alan Greenspan embarked on his legendary financial career, he studied the clarinet at Julliard and played as a professional jazz musician (while doing tax returns for his bandmates). He chose 10 favorites for us from a lifetime of listening, including:
|  | Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23
|  | Vivaldi, Complete Cello Concertos
|  | Coleman Hawkins, "Body and Soul"
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The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspans incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable lifes journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to the present, in the second half of The Age of Turbulence Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour dhorizon of the global economy. The distillation of a lifes worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspans personal and intellectual legacy.
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This book is a great book for understanding old economic thought, the thought that led the US and other world economies into the Great Recession. Dr. Greenspan and this older school of economic thought are being discredited now and newer thinking is replacing the old ways. But the book is important as an addition to the history of economic thought and should definitely be read in that context.
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Firstly I bought the kindle release for $5.95 and I received the book in less than 1 minute. It is certainly cheaper than the book edition of $11.05 plus postage to Australia (about $6) and waiting for one month.
Greenspan talked openly about his life from youth to his life as Fed Chairman and I welcomed his openness. This gives good insight on what happened during the economic crisis and boom in the past 20+ years.
He than talks about Capitalism versus communism, what ... Read More
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"I Was Wrong" But It's Still a Good Book
Even after the senate hearings on the economic collapse and the PBS documentary on Brooksley Born, I still think this is a good book. There is so much in this book, it warrants a second reading.
The title of this book reflects the economic impact that the internet and the computer revolution brought to the world. Efficiencies skyrocketed during the 90's and the economic analysis had to change to track this change in economic productivity. ... Read More
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For an autobiography, I thought the author was honest, forthright, revealing and insightful. He does not engage in dialogues with himself or others. He does not dive into the depths of technical and policy rationalizations. He describes the world as he experienced it and remembers it in terms that everyone can understand at a meaningful level. For anyone who held a role that was impacted by his US economic policy impact across 25+ years or anyone who is looking towards the future, this is essential reading. ... Read More
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Dry and analytical like Mr. Greenspan himself, this book is a challenge to read. The false modesty and name dropping is relentless. If only Alan Greenspan could realize how wrong he was. Unfortunately his sureness in this chronicle of events doesn't even have a hint of regret or second guessing. History will reveal that Wall Street unregulated and laissez-faire was not the answer. That history will not be kind to Alan Greenspan. Read this only for a old school view of what didn't work. Watch the latest PBS Frontline ... Read More
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