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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
by Greenspan, Alan
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1594201315
- ISBN 13
- 9781594201318
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About This Item
USA: Penguin Press, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Fourth Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Fine binding in gray cloth over spine with gilt titles, burgundyboards, clean and unmarked tight and solid volume with trace wear to spine heel. Internals pristine. Gold and white jacket slightly wrinkled at spine head, else fine. Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life and the history he has experienced but also to help readers understand the underlying dynamics that drive world events. He goes on to the global economy to reveal the universals of economic growth, and goes into detail in each major country and region of the world. A prodigious undertaking. 531pages with Notes on Sources and Index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 2007, Penguin Press, USA
Synopsis
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.
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- Title
- The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
- Author
- Greenspan, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1594201315
- ISBN 13
- 9781594201318
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- GOVERNMENT ECONOMICS US ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics & Government;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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