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Book Description:
Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life first simply with an eye toward doing justice to the extraordinary amount of history he has experienced and shaped. But his other goal is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so they accrue a grasp of his own understanding of the underlying dynamics that drive world events. In the second half of the book, having brought us to the present and armed us with the conceptual tools to follow him forward, Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour de horizon of the global economy. He reveals the universals of economic growth, delves into the specific facts on the ground in each of the major countries and regions of the world, and explains what the trend-lines of globalization are from here. 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.
中文簡介：
美國聯邦準備理事會前主席格林斯潘，對世界金融市場的影響力仍舉足輕重。在“9.11”事件后，格林斯潘認識到了全球資本經濟環境已經和二十年前大不相同，更加開放、彈性、自主，而變化快速，帶給人們前所未有的諸多機會。在本書中，格林斯潘以他自身的經驗，帶領讀者檢視了這個新經濟世界的本質。
本書是格林斯潘的自傳性質作品,分為兩部分。前半部分，回顧了他的童年時期對他后來人生的影響,以及在他十八年的美國聯準會主席任期中所經歷的轉變。后半部分, 格林斯潘分享了他的經驗，為讀者介紹了了解全球經濟最重要的概念工具：他舉出經濟成長的共通點、探究各個主要地區及國家所發生的特殊事件、并解釋了今后全球化的趨勢導向。
作者將其一生的智慧學識和觀察濃縮在這本書之中，傳達他一以貫之的世界價值觀，本書將成為格林斯潘送給人類社會最珍貴的智慧遺產。
About Author:
Alan Greenspan was born in 1926 in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. After studying the clarinet at Juilliard and working as a professional musician, he earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. In 1954, he co-founded the economic consulting firm Townsend-Greenspan & Co. From 1974 to 1977, he served as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Gerald Ford. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan appointed him Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a position he held until his retirement in 2006.
艾倫·格林斯潘1926年生于紐約市，他曾在朱利亞音樂學院學習單簧管演奏，當過職業音樂人。之后在紐約大學取得經濟學學士、碩士和博士學位。1954年格林斯潘與合伙人共同創立了“湯森—格林斯潘”經濟咨詢公司，并擔任副總裁、董事長、總裁。1974年至1977年，任總統經濟顧問委員會主席。1987年，被里根總統任命為聯邦儲備委員會主席，直到2006年才卸任主席之職。
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