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Auteur(s) : Irwin, Neil
Titre(s) : The alchemists [Texte imprimé] : three central bankers and a world on fire / Neil Irwin
Publication : New York : The penguin press, impr. 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvii-430 p.) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. 399-414 and index
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
Sujet(s) : Bernanke, Ben S.
Trichet, Jean-Claude (1942-.... ; membre de l'Institut)
King, Mervyn Allister (1948-....)
Banques centrales -- Histoire
Politique monétaire -- Histoire
Crises financières -- Histoire
Crise économique (2008)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-59420-462-3 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436855919
Notice n° :
FRBNF43685591
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
