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  • Published: 2 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141978130
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $32.99
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The Map and the Territory 2.0

Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting




With his trademark wisdom and nuance, Greenspan devises a brand new economic map, one that integrates the history of economic prediction, the recent work of behavioural economists and the lessons of his own remarkable career into a framework for understanding this previously uncharted territory.

Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. How had our models so utterly failed us?
Virtually every day, we make wagers on the future - but, even when we're not driven by factors entirely beyond our conscious control, the maps by which we are steering are often out-of-date. The Map and the Territory is an important attempt to update our forecasting conceptual grid using twenty-first-century technologies, offering a lucid and empirical grounding in what we can know about economic forecasting and what we can't.

  • Published: 2 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141978130
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan was born in 1926 in the Washington Heights neighbourhood of New York City. After studying the clarinet at Juilliard and working as a professional musician, he earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. In 1954, he co-founded the economic consulting firm Townsend-Greenspan & Co. From 1974 to 1977, he served as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Gerald Ford. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan appointed him Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a position he held until his retirement in 2006.

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