The Man Who Knew: The Life And Times Of Alan Greenspan

Author: Sebastian Mallaby
Homepage 9781408855782

Stock information

General Fields

  • : $10.00 NZD
  • : 9781408855782
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • :
  • : 1.237
  • : November 2016
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 32.99
  • : December 2016
  • :
  • :
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Sebastian Mallaby
  • : Export/Airside
  • :
  • : en
  • :
  • : 800
  • : 1x8 and 1x16 page colour plates
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
Barcode 9781408855782
9781408855782

Description

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, this is the biography of one of the titans of financial history over the last fifty years. Born in 1926, Alan Greenspan was raised in Manhattan by a single mother and immigrant grandparents during the Great Depression but by quiet force of intellect, rose to become a global financial 'maestro'. Appointed by Ronald Reagan to Chairman of the Federal Reserve, a post he held for eighteen years, he presided over an unprecedented period of stability and low inflation, was revered by economists, adored by investors and consulted by leaders from Beijing to Frankfurt. Both data-hound and eligible society bachelor, Greenspan was a man of contradictions. His great success was to prove the very idea he, an advocate of the Gold standard, doubted: that the discretionary judgements of a money-printing central bank could stabilise an economy. He resigned in 2006, having overseen tumultuous changes in the world's most powerful economy. Yet when the great crash happened only two years later many blamed him, even though he had warned early on of irrational exuberance in the market place. Sebastian Mallaby brilliantly shows the subtlety and complexity of Alan Greenspan's legacy. Full of beautifully rendered high-octane political infighting, hard hitting dialogue and stories, The Man Who Knew is superbly researched, enormously gripping and the story of the making of modern finance.

Promotion info

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, this is the definitive biography of one of the most important figures in global finance