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  • Lars Spuybroek (Hg.)

    The Architecture of Variation (Research & Design)

  • Gerrit Terstiege (Hg.)

    The Making of Design. Vom Modell zum fertigen Produkt

  • Alexandra Gerstein (Hg.)

    Beyond Bloomsbury. Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19

  • Della Chuang

    Kyoteau. Bottled Memories

  • Wolfgang Kil (Hg.)

    Wolfgang Hänsch. Architekt der Dresdner Moderne

  • Ken Hillis

    Online a Lot of the Time. Ritual, Fetish, Sign

  • Stephan Trüby (Hg.)

    Hertzianismus. Elektromagnetismus in Architektur, Design…

  • Barkow Leibinger

    An Atlas of Fabrication

  • Jacques Ranciere

    Aesthetics and Its Discontents

  • Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (Hg.)

    Bauhaus Streit. 1919-2009. Kontroversen und Kontrahenten.

  • Jon Savage

    The England's Dreaming Tapes

  • Peter C. Bunnell

    Inside the Photograph. Writings on Twentieth-Century…

  • Kelly Coyne, Erik Knutzen

    The Urban Homestead. Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living…

  • Ian Wilson

    The Discussions

  • Jason Sperb, Scott Balcerzak

    Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Film,…

  • Momus

    Solution 11-167. The Book of Scotlands

  • Barbican Art Gallery (Hg.)

    Radical Nature. Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet…

  • Verein 100 Beste Plakate

    100 Beste Plakate 08. Deutschland - Österreich - Schweiz

  • Liam Gillick

    All Books

  • Cosmic Wonder Free Press

    Cosmic Wonder Light Source 3. Light Streams

  • Alastair Fuad-Luke

    Design Activism. Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable…

  • Oliviero Toscani, Olivier Saillard

    Workwear. Work Fashion Seduction

  • Shepard Fairey

    Obey. Supply & Demand. The Art of Shepard Fairey.

  • James Hennessey, Victor Papanek

    Nomadic Furniture. D-I-Y Projects that are Lightweight

  • Dominik Landwehr, Verena Kuni (Hg.)

    Home made electronic arts. Do-it-yourself Piratensender,…

  • Sara Maysles, Rebekah Maysles (Hg.)

    Grey Gardens (with DVD)

  • Samuel Charters

    A Language of Song. Journeys in the Musical World of the…

  • Tobias Huber, Marcus Steinweg (Hg.)

    Inaesthetik Nr.1. Politics of Art

  • Claire Fontaine

    Vivre, vaincre

  • Wolfram Pichler, Ralph Ubl (Hg.)

    Topologie. Falten, Knoten, Netze, Stülpungen in Kunst und…

  • Geoff Manaugh

    The BLDG BLOG Book

  • Stephan Rabimov (Hg.)

    Depesha. Russian Lifestyle Magazine

  • Richard Reynolds

    Guerilla Gardening. Ein botanisches Manifest

  • Luigi Snozzi, Andrew Frear, Richard…

    Bau der Gesellschaft. Architekturvortäge der ETH Zürich

  • Christian Schittich (Hg.)

    Im Detail. Ausstellen und Präsentieren. Museumskonzepte,…

  • Roland Hagenberg (Hg.)

    20 Japanese Architects. Interviews and Photos

  • Robert and Brenda Vale

    Time to Eat the Dog. The Real Guide to Sustainable Living

  • Matthias Noell

    Das Haus und sein Buch

  • Tim Waterman

    The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture

  • Maia Francisco

    Atlas of Graphic Designers

  • Neil Brenner, Stuart Elden (Hg.)

    Henri Lefebvre. State, Space, World. Selected Essays

  • Jean Burgess, Joshua Green

    YouTube. Online Video and Participatory Culture

  • Lars Denicke, Peter Thaler (Hg.)

    Prepare for Pictopia. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Haus der…

  • Monika Szewczyk (Hg.)

    Meaning Liam Gillick

  • Nato Thompson (Hg.)

    A Guide to Democracy in America

  • Jan Wehrheim

    Der Fremde und die Ordnung der Räume

  • Robert Castel

    Negative Diskriminierung. Jugendrevolten in den Pariser…

  • Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar

    Reading Capital

  • Susanne Pfeffer, Beatrix Ruf, Nicolaus…

    Annette Kelm

  • John Stezaker

    The 3rd Person Archive

  • Eva Egermann, Anna Pritz (Hg.)

    School Works. Beiträge zu vermittelnder, künstlerischer und…

  • Faitiche/Jan Jelinek (Hg.)

    Die Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation des Samples presents:…

  • Georg Spehr (Hg.)

    Funktionale Klänge. Hörbare Daten, klingende Geräte und…

  • Francesca Gavin

    Creative Space. Urban Homes of Artists and Innovators

  • Alison Oddey, Christine White

    Modes of Spectating

  • Alex S. Vitale

    City of Disorder. How the Quality of Life Campaign…

  • Alain De Botton

    The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

  • Kunstmuseum Basel, Lenbachhaus München…

    Tom Burr

  • Bernd Stiegler

    Montagen des Realen. Photographie als Reflexionsmedium und…

  • Michaela Ott, Harald Strauß (Hg.)

    Ästhetik + Politik. Neuaufteilungen des Sinnlichen in der…

  • Terry Wilson

    Tamla Motown. The Stories Behind The UK Singles

  • John Robb

    The North Will Rise Again. Manchester Music City 1976-1996

  • Iain Morland (Hg.)

    Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Intersex and After.…

  • Wladimir Velminski (Hg.)

    Leonhard Euler. Die Geburt der Graphentheorie

  • Katarina Bonnevier

    Behind Straight Curtains. Towards a Queer Feminist Theory…

  • Mark Borthwick

    Not in Fashion

  • Jonas Mekas

    To Petrarca

  • Peter Halley

    Ryan McGuinness Works. Paintings, Sculptures, Sketches,…

  • Catherine David, Georges Khalil, Bernd…

    Di/Visions. Kultur und Politik des Nahen Ostens

  • Sarah Chaplin, Alexandra Stara (Hg.)

    Curating Architecture and the City

  • Laurie Anderson

    Nothing in My Pockets

  • Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Francis,…

    Film Curatorship. Archives, Museums, and the Digital…

  • Emilio Prini

    Fermi in Dogana, Ancienne Douane 4.11.1995 - 14.1.1996

  • J. Armleder, G. Metzger, P. Pirotte, u.…

    Voids. A Retrospective

  • Elisabeth Sussman

    William Eggleston. Democratic Camera. Photographs and Video…

  • Peter J. Schneemann, Wolfgang Brückle (…

    Kunstausbildung. Aneignung und Vermittlung künstlerischer…

  • Sayaka Ishi (Hg.)

    Logo a Lot

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    Neon Addict. The Fluorescent Color Book

  • Claude Schnaidt

    Anders gesagt. Schriften 1950-2001

  • Sangeeta Ray

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. In Other Words

  • Sophie Wolfrum, Winfried Nerdinger (Hg.)

    Multiple City. Stadtkonzepte 1908 I 2008

  • Elisabeth Blum, Peter Neitzke

    Dubai. Stadt aus dem Nichts. Ein Zwischenbericht über die…

  • A. Bangma, D.M. Donoghue, L. Issa, K.…

    Resonant Bodies, Voices, Memories

  • Justine Frank, Roee Rosen

    Sweet Sweat

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    Naïve. Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design

  • Stephen Walker

    Gordon Matta-Clark. Art, Architecture and the Attack on…

  • Sven-Olov Wallenstein

    Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture

  • Jules Romains

    Donogoo Tonka or the Miracles of Science. A Cinematographic…

  • David Leatherbarrow

    Architecture Oriented Otherwise

  • Loretta Lorance

    Becoming Bucky Fuller

  • Karin Bijsterveld

    Mechanical Sound. Technology, Culture, and Public Problems…

  • Andrew Losowsky (Hg.)

    We Make Magazines. Inside the Independents

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    Cat Seen (bwab #1)

  • Charlie Hailey

    Camps. A Guide to 21st-Century Space

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    Cairoscape. Images, Imagination and Imaginary of a…

  • Carsten Nicolai

    Grid Index

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    Experimental Geography. Radical Approaches to Landscape,…

  • Mourad Boutros et al.

    Talking about Arabic (Dot-Font)

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