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Yellen, the trailblazing economist who navigated an era of upheaval, Jon Hilsenrath

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Jon Hilsenrath

the trailblazing economist who navigated an era of upheaval

Chronicling the past fifty years of American economic and social upheaval, an award-winning economics writer examines what happened, viewing events through the experiences of two historic figures: Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary, Federal Reserve Chairwoman, and Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and her husband, George Akerlof, an imaginative Nobel prize-winning economist

Part I: love stories -- Yellen's youth: "I'm going to tell you mother," 1946-1967 -- Akerlof's youth: exotic furry creatures, 1940-1967 -- Yellen at Yale and Harvard: rowing upstream, 1968-1976 -- Akerlof's early voyages: lemons and the Hills of Olympus, 1968-1976 - Yellen and Akerlof meet: in the grips of a long inflation and a fast romance, 1977-1978 -- Part II: battlegrounds -- Redefining Keynes: inside the ideological battles that shaped Yellen's generation, 1940s-1980s -- Yellen and Akerlof at Berkeley: labor of love, 1978-1990 -- Behavioral economists: remarkable errors in the history of economic thought, 1980s and 1990s -- Yellen, Akerlof, and Socialism's failure: the Richtungskoeffizent, 1989-1994 -- Yellen becomes a central bander: confronting a maestro, 1994-1997 -- Yellen in the Clinton White House: boom times and boys' clubs, 1997-1999 -- Trade in the twilight of a golden age: China, Mexico, and Ricardo's theory of advantage, 1993-2001 -- Part III: crisis -- Akerlof wins a Nobel, Yellen returns to the Fed: lessons from a financial bubble and jobless recovery, 2000-2004 -- Yellen as a regulator: an introduction to Frankenstein finance, 2004-2006 -- Yellen and Akerlof see storms from the lighthouse: nursing the economy and Robby's damaged back, 2007 -- Financial panic: Bernanke's loyal field commander, 2008 -- "These are fucking people!": at the center of a new way of central banking, 2009-2010 -- Yellen as #2: palace intrigue, 2010-2014 -- Yellen becomes leader: a summer of summers, 2014-2014 -- Part IV: leader -- Identity crisis: Akerlof's new theory of reds versus greens, 2014 -- Yellen leads the Fed: flying a plane with no gauges, 2014-2015 -- Yellen loses her job: too short, 2016-2018 -- Professor Robert Akerlof: explaining a read and blue America, 2018-2020 -- Yellen makes history: cleaning up another mess, 2020 -- Yellen leads the Treasury: trillions, 2021 -- Janet at war: causing bank runs in the streets of St. Petersburg, 2021-2022 -- Conclusion: bonds

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