The alchemists : three central bankers and a world on fire / Neil Irwin.
By: Irwin, Neil.
Description: xvii, 430 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0143124994 (pbk.); 1594204624 (hardcover); 9780143124993 (pbk.); 9781594204623 (hardcover).Subject(s): Bernanke, Ben | King, Mervyn A | Trichet, Jean-Claude | Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) | 2008 - 2009 | Banks and banking, Central -- History | Financial crises -- History | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | Monetary policy -- History | Banks and banking, Central | Banque centrale europeenne | Banques centrales | Crise economique | Crise financiere | Financial crises | Histoire economique | Marche financier international | Monetary policy | Politique monetaire | UE/CE Etats membres | Etats-Unis d'Amerique | Royaume-UniGenre/Form: History. | Print books.DDC classification: 332.1/1| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HG1811 .I79 2013 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000002136 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-414) and index.
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.
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.