000471265 000__ 02335cam\a2200349\i\4500 000471265 001__ 471265 000471265 005__ 20210513163943.0 000471265 008__ 130301s2013\\\\nyuaf\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000471265 010__ $$a 2013006816 000471265 020__ $$a9781594204623$$qhardcover 000471265 020__ $$a1594204624$$qhardcover 000471265 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn796756230 000471265 035__ $$a471265 000471265 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dIG#$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dBDX$$dOCLCO$$dGK5$$dABG$$dBWX$$dCDX$$dGRR$$dYUS$$dVP@ 000471265 042__ $$apcc 000471265 049__ $$aISEA 000471265 05000 $$aHG1811$$b.I79 2013 000471265 08200 $$a332.1/1$$223 000471265 1001_ $$aIrwin, Neil. 000471265 24514 $$aThe alchemists :$$bthree central bankers and a world on fire /$$cNeil Irwin. 000471265 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bThe Penguin Press,$$c2013. 000471265 300__ $$axvii, 430 pages, 16 pages of plates :$$billustrations ;$$c25 cm 000471265 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000471265 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia 000471265 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier 000471265 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 399-414) and index. 000471265 5050_ $$aOpening the spigot -- Rise of the alchemists, 1656-2006. Johan Palmstruch and the birth of central banking ; Lombard Street, Rule Britannia, and Bagehot's dictum ; The First Name Club ; Madness, nightmare, desperation, chaos : when central banking goes wrong-- in two acts ; The anguish of Arthur Burns ; Spinning the roulette wheel in Maastricht ; Masaru Hayami, tomato ketchup, and the agony of ZIRP ; The Jackson Hole Consensus and the Great Moderation -- Panic, 2007-2008. The Committee of Three ; Over by Christmas ; A wall of money -- Aftermath, 2009-2010. The battle for the Fed ; The new Greek Odyssey ; The King's speech ; The perilous maiden voyage of the QE2 -- The second wave, 2011-2012. The chopper, the troika, and the Deauville debacle ; The President of Europe ; Escape velocity ; Super Mario world ; Governor Zhou's Chinese medicine ; Back to Jackson. 000471265 520__ $$aExplores 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. 000471265 650_0 $$aBanks and banking, Central$$xHistory. 000471265 650_0 $$aMonetary policy$$xHistory. 000471265 650_0 $$aFinancial crises$$xHistory. 000471265 650_0 $$aGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. 000471265 85200 $$bgen$$hHG1811$$i.I79$$i2013 000471265 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:471265$$pGLOBAL_SET 000471265 980__ $$aBIB 000471265 980__ $$aBOOK