动荡的时代:新世界的冒险

D. D. Murphey
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动荡的年代:在一个新的世界里的冒险艾伦·格林斯潘企鹅出版社,2008年这实际上是艾伦·格林斯潘的职业生涯的回忆录。在2007年8月,也就是伯南克从美国联邦储备委员会主席的位置上退休大约19个月之后,这本书只涉及了金融危机的部分内容。但由于格林斯潘在其18年多的主席任期内是世界中央银行的领军人物,而且这些年包括导致金融危机的时期,这本书应该在讨论危机及其原因的书中占有突出地位。这本书的主要部分出版于2007年6月,就在危机变得明显的几周前。《后记》写于一年后,但仍在危机达到顶峰的三个月前,被添加到后来的版本中。虽然这本书中没有出现,但格林斯潘2008年10月底在美国众议院监督和政府改革委员会的证词仍然为了解他的想法提供了第三个窗口。正是在那次证词中,他承认对长期指导其经济哲学的一些前提感到不安。这本书有很多值得挖掘的地方——远远超过我们在这篇评论中所能讨论的。正如刚才所指出的,它的主干是一本回忆录,但它也为自己的利益调查了一些主题。例如,有一章是关于共产主义的垮台,另一章是关于克林顿政府的经济政策,还有几章是关于中国、俄罗斯、英国、德国、法国、意大利、日本、澳大利亚、“亚洲四小龙”和印度的情况。格林斯潘出生于1926年。他父母的家庭是犹太人和中下层阶级,在世纪之交从罗马尼亚和匈牙利移民到美国。他曾就读于纽约市的乔治华盛顿高中(George Washington High School),他形容这是“纽约市最大、最好的公立学校之一”。1948年,他以优异成绩获得纽约大学(New York University)经济学学士学位,两年后又获得了该大学的硕士学位。他的才华很早就显露出来,体现在他对数学和音乐的热爱,以及他掌握数据的能力上。他曾在哥伦比亚大学(Columbia)跟随后来的美联储主席阿瑟•伯恩斯(Arthur Burns)学习,但由于忙于经济数据分析和计量经济学模型构建的各个方面的工作,直到20世纪70年代才继续攻读博士学位(还是在纽约大学获得经济学学位)。他后来在摩根大通(JPMorgan)董事会任职,在杰拉尔德•福特(Gerald Ford)总统任内担任经济顾问委员会(Council of Economic Advisors)主席,并在里根总统任内领导了一个社会保障改革委员会。1987年,他被任命为美联储主席,2006年1月退休。格林斯潘的个人特征提供了一个令人着迷的混合体。他出色地沉浸在行业和公司的细节中,从中他找到了关于整个经济的大量指导,并将其与强烈的意识形态倾向结合在一起,首先是作为自由意志主义哲学家安·兰德(Ayn Rand)的信徒,然后,尽管他放弃了一些兰德式的热情,作为一个“终身自由意志主义共和党人”,他信奉“不受约束的市场竞争”。这种混合还包括,也许是不协调的,一种与不同信仰和政治的主要人物和谐相处的天赋:他和电视名人芭芭拉·沃尔特斯交往了几年,他们是在副总统纳尔逊·洛克菲勒主持的茶会上认识的。当他结婚时,仪式是由美国最高法院大法官鲁斯·巴德·金斯伯格主持的。与这种普世主义一致,他持有一些传统观点。(即便是他对“不受约束的市场竞争”的支持,在20世纪70年代中期福特政府开始放松管制后的几十年里,也成为了传统观点。)然而,我们对这篇评论的兴趣与其说是对格林斯潘的个人历史,不如说是对他的书中出现的政策和意识形态问题。...
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World Alan Greenspan Penguin Books, 2008 This is in effect a memoir of Alan Greenspan's professional life. Only in part (and by virtue of an Epilogue) does it deal with the financial crisis that hit in August 2007, some nineteen months after he retired from his position as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. But because Greenspan was a leading figure in world central banking during his eighteen-plus years as chairman, and because those years included the period leading up to the financial crisis, this book deserves a prominent place among those that discuss the crisis and its causes. The main portion of this book was published in June 2007, just weeks before the crisis became evident. The Epilogue, written a year later but still three months before the crisis reached its apex, was added for later editions. Although it does not appear in the book, Greenspan's testimony before the U. S. House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in late October 2008 provides still a third window into his thinking. It was in that testimony that he acknowledged trepidation about some of the premises that had long guided his economic philosophy. There is much to be mined from this book - far more than we will be able to discuss in this review. The main stem, as just indicated, is a memoir, but it also surveys a number of topics for their own sakes. For example, there is a chapter on the fall of Communism, another on the Clinton administration's economic policies, and chapters on the situations of China, Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Australia, the "Asian Tigers" and India. Greenspan was born in 1926. His parents' families, Jewish and lower middle class, had immigrated to the United States from Romania and Hungary at the turn of the century. He attended New York City's George Washington High School, which he describes as "one of the city's largest and best public schools," after which he obtained his undergraduate degree in economics summa cum laude from New York University in 1948, followed by an M.A. there two years later. His brilliance became apparent early, manifesting itself in his love of math and music, and his ability to master data. He studied under later-Fed chairman Arthur Burns at Columbia, but became so busy working in various aspects of economic data analysis and econometric model-building that he didn't follow up with his doctorate (again in economics and from NYU) until the 1970s. He wound up serving on the JPMorgan board, was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Gerald Ford, and headed a commission on Social Security reform for President Reagan. He was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1987, retiring in January 2006. Greenspan's personal characteristics provide a fascinating mixture. He immersed himself splendidly in the details of industries and firms, from which he found substantial guidance about the economy as a whole, and joined this with a strong ideological propensity, first as a devotee of the libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand and then, even though he shed some of his Randian fervor, as a "lifelong libertarian Republican" who embraced "unfettered market competition." The mixture included, too, perhaps incongruously, an aptitude for mixing congenially with major figures of varied persuasions and politics: for several years, he dated television personality Barbara Walters, whom he met at a tea dance hosted by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. When he was married, the ceremony was conducted by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Consistently with this ecumenism, he has held a number of conventional views. (Even his support for "unfettered market competition" came to be the conventional view during the decades following the start of deregulation under the Ford administration in the mid-1970s.) Our interest in this review, however, is not so much in Greenspan's personal history as in the issues of policy and ideology that emerge from his book. …
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