The man who knew
Subtitle: the life and times of Alan Greenspan
By: Sebastian Mallaby
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 781
ISBN-13: 9781594204845
Subjects: Economists; Monetary policy; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.); Biography; Government economists
Description: 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. --
Notes: "A Council on Foreign Relations Book."

Includes bibliographic references (pages 695-755) and an index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "He has set a standard"; title: Book I: The idealogue. The feeling of a conqueror; title: The un-Keynsian; title: The rebirth of money; title: Ayn Rand's undertaker; title: Against the new frontier; title: Book II. The politician. A Libertarian for Nixon; title: Do-nothingism; title: A minority of one; title: Between Thatcher and Kissinger; title: The first housing conundrum; title: Republican dreamers; title: "Do we really need the Fed?"; title: A Republican Volcker; title: Without the cigar; title: Book III. The central banker. "Greenspan's irrelevant"; title: Light Black Monday; title: The gun-shy chairman; title: "You're the big guru"; title: Maestro; title: Alan versus Alan; title: The zipswitch chairman; title: Irrational exuberance; title: "The best economy I've ever seen"; title: "Uncle Alan will take care of us"; title: Alan.com; title: "A very surreal environment"; title: Lowflation; title: The four winds; title: "I found a flaw"; title: The blind roller skater.