Yellen : the trailblazing economist who navigated an era of upheaval / Jon Hilsenrath.
Chronicling the past fifty years of American economic and social upheaval, an award-winning economics writer examines what happened, viewing events through the experiences of two historic figures: Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary, Federal Reserve Chairwoman, and Chair of the White House Council of E...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 377 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Part I: love stories
- Yellen's youth: "I'm going to tell you mother," 1946-1967
- Akerlof's youth: exotic furry creatures, 1940-1967
- Yellen at Yale and Harvard: rowing upstream, 1968-1976
- Akerlof's early voyages: lemons and the Hills of Olympus, 1968-1976 - Yellen and Akerlof meet: in the grips of a long inflation and a fast romance, 1977-1978
- Part II: battlegrounds
- Redefining Keynes: inside the ideological battles that shaped Yellen's generation, 1940s-1980s
- Yellen and Akerlof at Berkeley: labor of love, 1978-1990
- Behavioral economists: remarkable errors in the history of economic thought, 1980s and 1990s
- Yellen, Akerlof, and Socialism's failure: the Richtungskoeffizent, 1989-1994
- Yellen becomes a central bander: confronting a maestro, 1994-1997
- Yellen in the Clinton White House: boom times and boys' clubs, 1997-1999
- Trade in the twilight of a golden age: China, Mexico, and Ricardo's theory of advantage, 1993-2001
- Part III: crisis
- Akerlof wins a Nobel, Yellen returns to the Fed: lessons from a financial bubble and jobless recovery, 2000-2004
- Yellen as a regulator: an introduction to Frankenstein finance, 2004-2006
- Yellen and Akerlof see storms from the lighthouse: nursing the economy and Robby's damaged back, 2007
- Financial panic: Bernanke's loyal field commander, 2008
- "These are fucking people!": at the center of a new way of central banking, 2009-2010
- Yellen as #2: palace intrigue, 2010-2014
- Yellen becomes leader: a summer of summers, 2014-2014
- Part IV: leader
- Identity crisis: Akerlof's new theory of reds versus greens, 2014
- Yellen leads the Fed: flying a plane with no gauges, 2014-2015
- Yellen loses her job: too short, 2016-2018
- Professor Robert Akerlof: explaining a read and blue America, 2018-2020
- Yellen makes history: cleaning up another mess, 2020
- Yellen leads the Treasury: trillions, 2021
- Janet at war: causing bank runs in the streets of St. Petersburg, 2021-2022
- Conclusion: bonds.