The Age of Turbulence Adventures in a New

The Age Of Turbulenceis 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 TurbulenceDr. 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 Turbulencewill stand as Alan Greenspan’s personal and intellectual legacy.

Alan Greenspan was chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from 1987 until his retirement in 2006.

Introduction	p. 1
City Kid	p. 19
The Making of an Economist	p. 38
Economics Meets Politics	p. 54
Private Citizen	p. 77
Black Monday	p. 100
The Fall of the Wall	p. 123
A Democrat's Agenda	p. 142
Irrational Exuberance	p. 164
Millennium Fever	p. 182
Downturn	p. 206
The Nation Challenged	p. 226
The Universals of Economic Growth	p. 249
The Modes of Capitalism	p. 267
The Choices That Await China	p. 294
The Tigers and the Elephant	p. 311
Russia's Sharp Elbows	p. 323
Latin America and Populism	p. 334
Current Accounts and Debt	p. 346
Globalization and Regulation	p. 363
The "Conundrum"	p. 377
Education and Income Inequality	p. 392
The World Retires. But Can It Afford To?	p. 409
Corporate Governance	p. 423
The Long-Term Energy Squeeze	p. 437
The Delphic Future	p. 464
Epilogue	p. 507
Acknowledgments	p. 533
A Note on Sources	p. 537
Bibliography	p. 541
Index	p. 545
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