Man Who Knew: The Life & Times of Alan Greenspan

The Man Who Knew is a biography of Alan Greenspan, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan to Chairman of the Federal Reserve and presided over an unprecedented period of stability and low inflation. He was a man of contradictions, but his great success was to prove that the discretionary judgements of a money-printing central bank could stabilize an economy. Sebastian Mallaby's book is superbly researched, gripping, and the story of the making of modern finance.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 832 pages
\n Publication date: 05 December 2017
\n Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Winner of the 2016 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 the quiet force of intellect, he 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 a data-hound and an 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 judgments of a money-printing central bank could stabilize 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 marketplace. 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.

\n Weight: 708g\n
Dimension: 197 x 130 x 57 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781408830956\n \n