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AGE OF TURBULENCE
GREENSPAN A. wydawnictwo: PENGUIN , rok wydania 2007, wydanie I cena netto: 170.00 Twoja cena 161,50 zł + 5% vat - dodaj do koszyka 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.
531 pages, hardcover
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GREENSPAN A (Polish Edition)
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