{"product_id":"9789814338172","title":"Alan Greenspan: The Oracle Behind The Curtain: The Oracle Behind the Curtain","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is an endless supply of rave reviews for Alan Greenspan and the Fed. This is due to Greenspan's political manipulations, the reluctance of politicians to challenge the Federal Reserve, the press corps' willingness to trade glowing reviews for access, and private economists with ambitions of becoming Fed Governors. With Greenspan's announced retirement, the devastating effects of Fed actions are mounting. Even as institutional reforms are suggested, it is shown how they have been blocked by an ideology favored by financial wealth-holders at the expense of wage labor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis thought-provoking new title, by the highly acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eWall Street Capitalism and A Brief History of Economics\u003c\/i\u003e, provides a much-needed counterbalance to the mythical distortions of Alan Greenspan. Canterbery exposes Greenspan's fundamentalist market ideology as overwhelming rationality in the making of economic policy. He depicts a Fed selfishly guarding its political independence, even as Greenspan has his way in virtually every major economic and social policy affecting the global economy since the Ford Administration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book reveals the hidden nodes of power that give the Fed vast authority over the global economy. It also explains why it is so important not only to understand those powers, but also to appreciate why they are resistant to moderation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreenspan and the Myth of His Purity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdam Smith, Free Markets and the Greenspan Standard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen Markets Have Failed, Greenspan Has Been on the Scene\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the Independence of Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve System\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFedspeak and the Innocent Hypocrisy of Independence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhite House Dependence and the Hypocrisy of Personal Interference\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreenspanmail Redefines the New Democrats\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFed and White House Dependence on Wall Street Investment Bankers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Fable of the Goldilocks Economy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Wolf at the Door of Ordinary Workers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlobal Market Failures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Collapse of the Great American Stock Market Bubble\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDerivatives: Throwing in the Chips\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFed Dependence on Hedge Funds?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreenspan Takes Us from Goldilocks to the Soft Patch and Back Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Housing Bubble Conundrum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSocial Insecurity: On the Cutting Edge of Federal Budget Deficits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGetting Personal with Savings, at Home and Abroad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKing Alan II\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProspects for Reform\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReadership:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrade Market:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Readers of the financial news (especially those who invest in stocks, bonds and housing) and those with a lively interest in public policy and how it is made; \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcademic:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Supplementary text for professors and university students at all levels in business, finance, money and banking, macroeconomics, principles of economics, economic history, contemporary history, and general social sciences.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185350131952,"sku":"9789814338172","price":11.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789814338172_p0.jpg?v=1763690785","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789814338172","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}