Ideologies / Neoliberal / Alan Greenspan
§ The minds · b. 1926 · United States · Fed Chair
Alan Greenspan
The maestro
Light-touch finance and the long boom.
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The long-serving Federal Reserve chair whose faith in self-regulating markets and light-touch finance epitomised the neoliberal consensus — until 2008 tested it.
social
Broadly libertarian, an early follower of Ayn Rand's circle.
economic
Championed deregulated finance and the self-correcting market.
governance
Technocratic central-bank independence above politics.
Notable for
- 18 years as Fed Chair
- Presided over the 'Great Moderation'
- Conceded a flaw in his market model, 2008
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