The Age of Turbulence

出版者:Penguin Press HC, The

作者:Alan Greenspan

页数:531

出版时间:2007-09-17

价格:USD 35.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781594201318

图书标签:传记Greenspan经济金融格林斯潘Economics经济学biography

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.

读后感

这本书在08年读过。这次再读，是想看看十年过去了，是否会有新的体会，另外也想再看一下格林斯潘在位时各种货币政策决策的背后想法。不过再读下来，发现有关其央行行长期间技术性的东西讲得不多。这本书基本上前半部分（1-11章）是讲经历，后半部分（12-25章）是讲理念。个人经...  

似乎特别钟情于纽约小老头。格林斯潘，伍迪艾伦：纽约人，大眼镜，勤于思考，古板的发型，看起来闷骚敏感，文字功底好。个人成功几乎全靠自我奋斗。 书以9.11悲剧而开头，而国人较为熟悉的加拿大前总理克雷蒂安自传的开头也是叶利钦的葬礼。似乎悲伤的情绪更容易拴住人心。 ...  

这本书在08年读过。这次再读，是想看看十年过去了，是否会有新的体会，另外也想再看一下格林斯潘在位时各种货币政策决策的背后想法。不过再读下来，发现有关其央行行长期间技术性的东西讲得不多。这本书基本上前半部分（1-11章）是讲经历，后半部分（12-25章）是讲理念。个人经...  

回想起来 好像是自从出国后 就没有认真的读课外书了 不是没有像省图的资源 而是面对一堆厚重的英文原版书 没有阅读的激情 上个月逛人大经济论坛偶然发现之 出于对G的膜拜 下载后便一直闲置在电脑桌面 希望读到后半部分 对所学有更深刻的认识 到时候再来更新 11/14/13  

The traditional wisdom still applies to this world today. It is absolutely amazing to see how correct Alan Greenspan has seen about the world economy. Ppl tend to forget many severe underlying problems under an age of prosperity. However, like what he descr...  

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