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  • Sylvère Lotringer, David Morris (Ed.)

    Schizo-Culture

  • Judith Laister, Margarethe Makovec,…

    Die Kunst des urbanen Handelns. The Art of Urban…

  • Verena Gerlach

    Karbid. Berlin - De La Lettre Peinte.. / Von Schriftmalerei…

  • Matt Ratto, Megan Boler (Eds.)

    DIY Citizenship. Critical Making and Social Media

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    Passing On History. Design Contribution To Knowledge…

  • Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima

    Lina Bo Bardi

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    Le Corbusier et la question du brutalisme. LC au J1

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    Always the Same Faces. Aus dem Alltag philippinischer…

  • Christoph Tannert (Hg.)

    Berlin Art Scene

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    Miami

  • Andreas van Dühren (Hg.)

    TEXT Gespräche

  • Dario Azzellini, Marina Sitrin

    They Can't Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from…

  • James Langdon

    A School for Design Fiction

  • Valentin Groebner

    Wissenschaftssprache digital. Die Zukunft von gestern

  • Deyan Sudjic

    B is for Bauhaus. An A-Z of the Modern World

  • Andy Merrifield

    The New Urban Question

  • Hans Ulrich Obrist

    Ways of Curating

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    SMAREAZY 001 12"EASTER, Champagne 121212 / Children…

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    Anke Westermann. Atlas

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    Schöne Neue Arbeit / Brave New Work. Ein Reader zu Harun…

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    Der Gang der Dinge. Welche Zukunft haben photographische…

  • Emil Ruder

    Fundamentals

  • Graham Cairns

    The Architecture of the Screen

  • Andrej Holm

    Mietenwahnsinn

  • René Pollesch

    Kill Your Darlings

  • Giorgio Maffei

    Records By Artists. 1958-1990

  • Beatrix Ruf, Julia Stoschek, Thomas D.…

    Ed Atkins

  • Helmut Lethen

    Der Schatten des Fotografen

  • Marta Kuzma (Ed.)

    Big Sign - Little Building

  • Martin Herbert

    The Uncertainty Principle

  • Andrej Holm (Hg.)

    Reclaim Berlin. Soziale Kämpfe in der neoliberalen Stadt

  • Cathy Lane, Angus Carlyle

    In the Field. The Art of Field Recording

  • Diedrich Diederichsen

    Über Pop-Musik

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    Ein kritischer Modus? Die Form der Theorie und der Inhalt…

  • Helmut C. Schulitz

    Entfesselung der Architektur. Der Architekt: Baumeister…

  • James Haywood Rolling Jr.

    Arts-Based Research

  • Elisabeth Roudinesco

    Lacan. In Spite Of Everything

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    Neue Baukunst. Architektur der Moderne in Bild und Buch

  • Justus Dahinden

    Architektur - Form und Emotion. Architecture - Form and…

  • Judith Butler, Athena Athanasiou

    Die Macht der Enteigneten. Das Performative im Politischen

  • Matt Mullican

    Editions 1985-2012

  • Daan Paans

    Letters from Utopia

  • Marcus Quent, Eckardt Lindner (Hg.)

    Das Versprechen der Kunst

  • Kerry Brougher

    Damage Control. Art and Destruction Since 1950

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    Realismus Jetzt: Spekulative Philosophie und Metaphysik für…

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    Minha Casa-nossa Cidade. Innovating Mass Housing In Brazil

  • Olafur Eliasson

    Eine Feier, elf Räume und ein gelber Korridor

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    Three Faces. Archive Chalayan

  • Alistair Hicks

    The Global Art Compass

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    Reziproke Räume. Texte zu Kulturanthropologie und…

  • Jan Verwoert

    COOKIE!

  • Martin Conrads, Franziska Morlok (Ed.)

    War postdigital besser?

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    L.A. [Ten]. Interviews on Los Angeles Architecture, 1970–…

  • Andrew Hemingway

    The Mysticism of Money

  • Ljiljana Kolešnik (Ed.)

    Socialism and Modernity. Art, Culture, Politics 1950 – 1974

  • Sascha Peters

    Materialrevolution 2. Neue nachhaltige und multifunktionale…

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    Make Shift City. Renegotiating the Urban Commons

  • CTM 2014 Festival Magazine

    Dis Continuity

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    Mapping Everything

  • Ryan Gander

    Artists’ Cocktails

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    Flying Furniture

  • Warren Carter, Barnaby Haran, Frederic…

    ReNew Marxist Art History

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    Kunst und Ideologiekritik nach 1989 / Art and the Critique…

  • Yilmaz Dziewior (Ed.)

    Liebe ist kälter als das Kapital. Love is colder than…

  • Anna Kostreva

    Berlin. Eine Morphologie der Mauern. A Morphology of Walls

  • Emmett Williams

    An Anthology of Concrete Poetry

  • Michaela Melián / Thomas Meinecke

    IEMANJÁ

  • Junya Ishigami

    How Small? How Vast? How architecture grows

  • Pieterjan Grandry

    The Future of Architecture. What is the future of…

  • Beatriz Colomina

    Manifesto Architecture. The Ghost of Mies

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    Rolf Müller

  • Gill Perry

    Playing at Home. The House in Contemporary Art

  • Jennifer A.E. Shields

    Collage and Architecture

  • Gaßner, Kölle, Roettig (Ed.)

    Eva Hesse. One More Than One

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    Wozu Bilder? Gebrauchsweisen der Fotografie

  • Kim Gordon

    Is It My Body? Selected Texts

  • René Spitz

    A5/06. HfG Ulm

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    Begriffe des Ausstellens (von A bis Z). Terms of Exhibiting…

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    Mensch - Raum – Maschine. Bühnenexperimente am Bauhaus

  • Clémentine Deliss, Yvette Mutumba (Hg.)

    Ware und Wissen: or the stories you wouldn’t tell a stranger

  • Richard Birkett (Ed.)

    and Materials and Money and Crisis

  • Barbara Penner

    Bathroom (Objekt series)

  • Otto Paans, Ralf Pasel

    Situational Urbanism. Directing Postwar Urbanity

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    Visualising Information for Advocacy

  • Emma Lavigne

    Pierre Huyghe

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    Architecture after Revolution

  • Phil Pasquini

    Domes, Arches and Minarets. A History of Islamic-Inspired…

  • Tracey Thorn

    Bedsit Disco Queen. How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star

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    Contestations. Learning from Critical Experiments in…

  • IDEA Magazine

    IDEA 362. Poetics of Graphic Language. Contemporary…

  • Hans Ulrich Obrist

    Sharp Tongues, Loose Lips, Open Eyes, Ears to the Ground

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    A-Typical Plan

  • Taiji Matsue

    Tyo-WTC

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    Protest Camps

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    Isotype. Design and Contexts, 1925–1971

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    Seeing from Above. The Aerial View in Visual Culture

  • Gianni Politi

    The Ritual of the Snake

  • Frank Kunert

    Wunderland

The Age of Turbulence. Adventures in a New World

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis as Federal Reserve Chairman, coming just weeks after he assumed control, had come much closer than is even today generally known to freezing the financial system and triggering a genuine financial panic. But the most remarkable thing that happened to the economy after 9/11 was...nothing. What in an earlier day would have meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly.
After 9/11 Alan Greenspan knew, if he needed any further reinforcement, that we're living in a new world - the world of a global capitalist economy that is vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, and fast-changing than it was even 20 years ago. It's a world that presents us with enormous new possibilities but also enormous new challenges. The Age of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan's 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 and for ill-channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy for longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. He begins his account on that September 11th morning, but then leaps back to his childhood, and follows the arc of his remarkable life's journey through to his more than 18-year tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, from 1987 to 2006, during a time of transforming change.
Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life first simply with an eye toward doing justice to the extraordinary amount of history he has experienced and shaped. But his other goal is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so they accrue a grasp of his own understanding of the underlying dynamics that drive world events. In the second half of the book, having brought us to the present and armed us with the conceptual tools to follow him forward, Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour de horizon of the global economy. He reveals the universals of economic growth, delves into the specific facts on the ground in each of the major countries and regions of the world, and explains what the trend-lines of globalization are from here. The distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspan's personal and intellectual legacy.


Alan Greenspan
The Age of Turbulence. Adventures in a New World
Penguin, 2008, 978-0-143114-16-1