The age of turbulence : adventures in a new world

The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s 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 life’s 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 d’horizon of the global economy. 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. After 9/11, Alan Greenspan, Chairman Of The Federal Reserve Board, 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. This Book Is Alan Greenspan's 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.--from Publisher Description. 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. Alan Greenspan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [510]-512) And Index. "'The Age of Turbulence' is Alan Greenspan's 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 life's 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 d'horizon of the global economy."--Publisher description