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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: man who knew
    sub title: the life and times of Alan Greenspan
  name:
    name part: Mallaby, Sebastian
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: Biography.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 781 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  abstract: A product of more than five years of research, Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan brings into focus the mysterious point where politics and the economy meet. Through Greenspan's story, Mallaby casts every presidency from Nixon to George W. Bush in a fresh new light. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. The Man Who Knew is a searching reckoning with what exactly comprised the art, and the possible, in the career of Alan Greenspan. --
  abstract: "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-for-all of the past quarter century. Greenspan's life is a quintessential American success story: raised by a single mother in the Jewish émigré community of Washington Heights, New York, he was a math prodigy who found a niche as a stats-crunching consultant. A master at explaining the economic weather to captains of industry, he translated that skill into advising Richard Nixon in his 1968 campaign. This led to a perch on the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and then to a dazzling array of business and government roles, from which the path to the Fed was relatively clear. A fire-breathing libertarian and disciple of Ayn Rand in his youth who once called the Fed's creation a historic mistake, Greenspan reinvented himself as a pragmatist once in power. In his analysis, and in his core mission of keeping inflation in check, he was a maestro indeed, and hailed as such. At his retirement in 2006, he was lauded as the age's necessary man. But then came 2008, and the great crash that did so much to damage Greenspan's reputation. Mallaby argues the conventional wisdom is off base: Greenspan knew more about the risks in irrational markets than almost anyone; the question is why he didn't act. Economic statesmanship, like political statesmanship, is the art of the possible. The Man Who Knew is a searching reckoning with what exactly comprised the art, and the possible, in the career of Alan Greenspan."--Dust jacket.
  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.
  note: Sebastian Mallaby.
  note: "A Council on Foreign Relations Book."
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 695-755) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Greenspan, Alan
      name part: 1926-
  subject:
    topic: Economists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Government economists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Monetary policy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Greenspan, Alan
      name part: 1926-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
  subject:
    topic: Economists
  subject:
    topic: Government economists
  subject:
    topic: Monetary policy
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: HB119.G74 M35 2016
  classification: 332.1/1092 B
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Man who knew
    name:
      name part: Mallaby, Sebastian, author.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2016
    identifier: (DLC) 2016028520
  identifier: 9781594204845 (hbk)
  identifier: 1594204845 (hbk)
  identifier: 9780698170018 (ebk)
  identifier: 0698170016 (ebk)
  identifier: 2016017300
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160616
    record change date: 20161031111843.0
    record identifier: in00003752469
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng