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The Age of Turbulence

The Age of Turbulence

Adventures in a New World

by Alan Greenspan
Paperback
Publication Date: 09/09/2008

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From the bestselling author of The Map and the Territory and Capitalism in America 

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.
ISBN:
9780143114161
9780143114161
Category:
Biography: historical
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
09-09-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
212.85x139.7x32mm
Weight:
0.56kg
Alan Greenspan

Born in 1926 in New York City, Alan Greenspan worked as a Juilliard-trained professional musician before studying Economics at New York University, where he earned his PhD. From 1974 to 1977, he served as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Gerald Ford. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan appointed him Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a position he held until his retirement in 2006. He is the author of the bestselling The Age of Turbulence and The Map and the Territory 2.0.

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