The alchemists : three central bankers and a world on fire / Neil Irwin.
The alchemists : three central bankers and a world on fire / Neil Irwin.
The alchemists : three central bankers and a world on fire / Neil Irwin.
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New York : The Penguin Press, 2013.
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G 2013/2576
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 430 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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 Bur...
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New York : The Penguin Press, 2013.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2013.
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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.
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The alchemists : three central bankers and a world on fire / Neil Irwin.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-414) and index.
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G 2013/2576
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74VKZ3rJR3p3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKZ3rJR3p3
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ISBN
1594204624
9781594204623
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332.1/1
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991018660429702626
