The post 9/11 global economy is a turbulent system - more flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, and fast-changing. This title is a reckoning with the nature of this world - how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good or ill.

His other goal is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so they have a grasp of his own clear-sighted and hard-won understanding of the dynamics that drive world events. 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.