Book Review of The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World written by Alan Greenspan
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Looney, Robert
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2007
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Alan Greenspan was appointed chairman of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve on August 11, 1987. For most of his 18 years at the Fed he was widely regarded as the infallible oracle of economic policy. True to its origins, during this period the Fed remained a somewhat secretive or at least opaque organization. However, with the publication of The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, outsiders are provided with a glimpse of the Fed’s inner workings, its economic theories and, most importantly, the underlying philosophies upon which major decisions were based...
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Book Review by Dr. Robert Looney of The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World written by Alan Greenspan.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.