Hilsenrath, Jon <br/><br/>
Yellen :  the trailblazing economist who navigated an era of upheaval / 
Jon Hilsenrath. 
 - First edition. 
 - xxi, 377 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (chiefly color) ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-362) and index. 
<br/><br/>Love stories. Yellen's youth : "I'm going to tell your 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 -- 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 banker : 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 -- 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 -- 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 red 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 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780063162464 (hardcover) 0063162466 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2023277886 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBC2H4660  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>020763903  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Yellen, Janet L. 1946- <br/>Yellen, Janet L.  1946-  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)--Officials and employees--Biography.<br/>Sistema de la Reserva Federal.  Junta de Gobernadores.  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economists--United States--Biography.<br/>Women economists--United States--Biography.<br/>Economistas--Estados Unidos--Biografías<br/>Mujeres en la economía --Biografías
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Estados Unidos --Política económica
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B HB 119  / Y43H 2022 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.092