General Information

Author/Creator

Irwin, Neil.

Language

English.

Published

London : Headline, Business Plus, 2014.

Physical Description

xix, 520 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

Explores the work of the world's most powerful central bankers-- --Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank--offering a view from the cockpit of the global economy as the three men struggled to keep it from going down.

Subjects

Subject

Banks and banking, Central > History.

Monetary policy > History.

Financial crises > History.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Neil Irwin.

Content

Opening the spigot -- Rise of the alchemists, 1656-2006. Johan Palmstruch and the birth of central banking ; Lombard Street, Rule Britannia, and Bagehot's dictum ; The First Name Club ; Madness, nightmare, desperation, chaos : when central banking goes wrong-- in two acts ; The anguish of Arthur Burns ; Spinning the roulette wheel in Maastricht ; Masaru Hayami, tomato ketchup, and the agony of ZIRP ; The Jackson Hole Consensus and the Great Moderation -- Panic, 2007-2008. The Committee of Three ; Over by Christmas ; A wall of money -- Aftermath, 2009-2010. The battle for the Fed ; The new Greek Odyssey ; The King's speech ; The perilous maiden voyage of the QE2 -- The second wave, 2011-2012. The chopper, the troika, and the Deauville debacle ; The President of Europe ; Escape velocity ; Super Mario world ; Governor Zhou's Chinese medicine ; Back to Jackson.

ISBN

9780755362684

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	332.1/1 IRW		OSA Repository	Donation of School of Public Policy.

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