The Man Who Knew

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Sebastian Mallaby
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Penguin Press 2016-10-11 Hardcover 9781594204845

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Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul Volcker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Washington Post columnist. He spent thirteen years on The Economist magazine, covering international finance in London and serving as the bureau chief in southern Africa, Japan, and Washington. He spent eight years on the editorial board of The Washington Post, focusing on globalization and political economy. His previous books are The World's Banker (2004), which was named as an Editor's Choice by The New York Times, and After Apartheid (1992), which was a New York Times Notable Book.

Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid focus the mysterious point where the government and the economy meet. To understand Greenspan's story is to see the economic and political landscape of the last 30 years--and the presidency from Reagan to George W. Bush--in a whole new light. As the most influential economic statesman of his age, Greenspan spent a lifetime grappling with a momentous shift: the transformation of finance from the fixed and regulated system of the post-war era to the free-for-all of the past quarter century. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill.

Greenspan's life is a quintessential American success story: raised by a single mother in the Jewish émigré community of Washington Heights, he was a math prodigy who found a niche as a stats-crunching consultant. A master at explaining the economic weather to captains of industry, he translated that skill into advising Richard Nixon in his 1968 campaign. This led to a perch on the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and then to a dazzling array of business and government roles, from which the path to the Fed was relatively clear. A fire-breathing libertarian and disciple of Ayn Rand in his youth who once called the Fed's creation a historic mistake, Mallaby shows how Greenspan reinvented himself as a pragmatist once in power. In his analysis, and in his core mission of keeping inflation in check, he was a maestro indeed, and hailed as such. At his retirement in 2006, he was lauded as the age's necessary man, the veritable God in the machine, the global economy's avatar. His memoirs sold for record sums to publishers around the world.

But then came 2008. Mallaby's story lands with both feet on the great crash which did so much to damage Alan Greenspan's reputation. Mallaby argues that the conventional wisdom is off base: Greenspan wasn't a naïve ideologue who believed greater regulation was unnecessary. He had pressed for greater regulation of some key areas of finance over the years, and had gotten nowhere. To argue that he didn't know the risks in irrational markets is to miss the point. He knew more than almost anyone; the question is why he didn't act, and whether anyone else could or would have. A close reading of Greenspan's life provides fascinating answers to these questions, answers whose lessons we would do well to heed. Because perhaps Mallaby's greatest lesson is that economic statesmanship, like political statesmanship, is the art of the possible. The Man Who Knew is a searching reckoning with what exactly comprised the art, and the possible, in the career of Alan Greenspan.

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##这本书覆盖的年代从歧视犹太人的那个年代开始到2008年金融海啸,经济数据的跟踪统计、金本位、抗通胀、Thrifts的倒闭、次贷危机。。在很多这些近代金融史的关键节点上,格林斯潘即便不是决策者,却至少也是密切参与者,所以这本书,读起来也像是讲经济学理论,讲金融系统运作,讲历史(比如水门事件等),讲美国政治的一本书。书的最后,作者反思2008-09金融危机的时候说,也许我们应该在经济很好的时候,敢于提高利率--牺牲一点点经济增长而已--就可以防止泡沫的产生。而似乎10年后我们又做了同样的事,前两年中,美联储虽然试图升利率可最后还是顶不住牺牲一点经济的压力降了下来,现在疫情之下利率已经为0了。也许资本主义本是如此,一切向好时可以自我克制只是美好的愿景而已。

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格林斯潘创造了一个中央银行与市场共舞的时代,通过货币政策从而影响了市场的起落,其中包含了财政政策、银行利率、股票市场多个市场要素: 这一中央银行要素促使中央银行进一步成为市场博弈者,无疑,格林斯潘在稳定的利率的操作上贡献颇多,但其过度的参与显然伪装了中央银行...  

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##2017 First book

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##喜欢作者(1)对金融知识的了解并以普通人能理解的人话解释清楚;(2)对金融界和金融历史的演变简单清晰;(3)客观评价格老,赶脚态度还是比较中立滴;折磨厚的英文书,文笔好,读起来(我是听书滴)一点也不难受,很舒服。作者功力腻害。The Man Who Knew turns out NOT fully knew. 格老做的已经不错了。

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格林斯潘创造了一个中央银行与市场共舞的时代,通过货币政策从而影响了市场的起落,其中包含了财政政策、银行利率、股票市场多个市场要素: 这一中央银行要素促使中央银行进一步成为市场博弈者,无疑,格林斯潘在稳定的利率的操作上贡献颇多,但其过度的参与显然伪装了中央银行...  

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