The most remarkable thing that happened to the world economy after 9/11 was ...nothing. What would have once meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly, partly due to the efforts of the then Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan. The post 9/11 global economy is a new and turbulent system - vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, and fast-changing than it was even twenty years ago. "The Age of Turbulence" is an incomparable reckoning with the nature of this new world - how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good or ill, channelled through Greenspan's own experiences working in the command room of the global economy for longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure.

1. CITY KID

2. THE MAKING OF AN ECONOMIST

3. ECONOMICS MEETS POLITICS

4. PRIVATE CITIZEN

5. BLACK MONDAY

6. THE FALL OF THE WALL

7. A DEMOCRAT'S AGENDA

8. IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE

9. MILLENNIUM FEVER

10. DOWNTURN

11. THE NATION CHALLENGED

12. THE UNIVERSALS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

13. THE MODES OF CAPITALISM

14. THE CHOICES THAT AWAIT CHINA

15. THE TIGERS AND THE ELEPHANT

16. RUSSIA'S SHARP ELBOWS

17. LATIN AMERICA AND POPULISM

18. CURRENT ACCOUNTS AND DEBT

19. GLOBALIZATION AND REGULATION

20. THE "CONUNDRUM"

21. EDUCATION AND INCOME INEQUALITY

22. THE WORLD RETIRES. BUT CAN IT AFFORD TO?

23. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

24. THE LONG-TERM ENERGY SQUEEZE

25. THE DELPHIC FUTURE

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

A Note on Sources

Bibliography

Index