The alchemists : three central bankers and a world on fire / Neil Irwin.
Irwin, Neil.
2013
HG1811 .I79 2013 (Mapit)
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Title The alchemists : three central bankers and a world on fire / Neil Irwin.
Author Irwin, Neil.
ISBN 9781594204623 hardcover
1594204624 hardcover
Published New York : The Penguin Press, 2013.
Language English
Description xvii, 430 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number HG1811 .I79 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 332.1/1
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-414) and index.
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