| Autore |
Auerbach Robert D
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (286 p.)
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| Disciplina |
332.1/10973
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| Soggetto topico |
Governmental investigations - United States
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| ISBN |
0-292-79467-3
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| Classificazione |
83.50
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Hitting a Tank with a Stick -- Chapter 2 The Burns Fed: Price Controls, Inflation, and the Watergate Cover-up with a Distinguished Professor at the Helm -- Chapter 3 The Master of Garblements -- Chapter 4 Spinning Mountains into Molehills -- Chapter 5 Valuable Secrets and the Return of Greenspan’s “Prophetic Touch” -- Chapter 6 The Seventeen-Year Lie -- Chapter 7 Corrupted Airplanes and Computer Mice -- Chapter 8 Standing in the Door against Civil Rights -- Chapter 9 When Five Hundred Economists Are Not Enough -- Chapter 10 The Myth of Political Virginity -- Chapter 11 Pricking the Stock Market Bubble and Other Greenspan Policies -- Chapter 12 Bring the Fed into the Democracy -- Appendix. Excerpts from Waste and Abuse in the Federal Reserve’s Payment System -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782007203321 |