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美联储主席格林斯潘回忆录--动荡年代:勇闯新世界-149:A NOTE ON SOURCES 

A NOTE ON SOURCES


The discussions of economics and economic policy in The Age of Turbulence rely on data drawn almost entirely from publicly available sources: Web sites and publications of government statistical agencies, industry groups, and professional associations. 

U.S. government sources include the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Census Bureau, 

both of the Department of Commerce; 

the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other units of the Department of Labor; 

the Congressional Budget Office; the Office of Management and Budget; 

the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; 

the Social Security Administration; 

the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;
the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight; 

and, of course, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. 

International sources include the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the statistical agencies of other governments, such as China's
National Bureau of Statistics and Germany's Federal Statistical Office, as well as central banks.

Professionals at dozens of organizations, associations, and companies responded helpfully to requests for information and data: the Aluminum Association, the American Iron and Steel Institute, 

the American Presidency Project, the American Water Works Association, the Association of American Railroads, the Can Manufacturers Institute, the Center for the Study of the American Electorate, the Conference Board, the European Bank for Reconstruction and De velopment,

Exxon Mobil Corporation, the Food Marketing Institute, 

George Washington High School, Global Insight, the Heritage Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, the Juilliard School, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the National Cotton Council of America, the NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association,
Standard & Poor's, the U.S. Senate Historical Office, the U.S. Senate Library, 

Watson Wyatt, and Wilshire Associates. 

The Web sites of CNET, Gary S. Swindell, Intel, Wired, and WTRG Economics
were also useful.

The autobiographical sections of The Age of Turbulence draw on a wide variety of sources,
both contemporary and historical, published and unpublished, as well as discussions with acquaintances and friends whose names may be found in the acknowledgments.


A NOTE ON SOURCES


Oral historians Erwin C. Hargrove and Samuel A. Morley interviewed me at length in
1978 about my initial years of public service as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors;
in writing chapter 3 ("Economics Meets Politics"), I used the unpublished transcript of that interview,
as well as the edited version that appeared in their book. 

I also drew upon my notes for speeches and meetings during my decades as a private consultant, and upon articles and essays I wrote for publication during those years. 

My scripts for the Public Broadcasting System's Nightly Business Report, on which I appeared regularly in the 1980s, were another useful source.

Chapter 3 and chapter 4 ("Private Citizen") are also informed by congressional testimony I gave as chairman of the CEA, as well as by testimony I gave as chairman of the National Commission on Social Security Reform. 

The development of my thinking on economic and public policy may be traced in the transcripts of the hundreds of speeches and congressional testimonies I gave as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. 

Speeches and testimony are available online via FRASER, the Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
(http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/historicaldocs), on the Federal Reserve Web site (www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents.htm), and by way of Freedom of Information Act requests from the Fed. 

I sometimes cite verbatim deliberations within the Fed; these are drawn from transcripts of Federal Open Market Committee meetings, which are available through 2001 on the Federal Reserve Web site. All quotations from congressional hearings are in the public record, which may be accessed via the Web site of the Government Printing Office (www.gpoaccess.gov/chearings/index.html), the Library of Congress, and other avenues.

During my tenure at the Federal Reserve, I made it a practice not to appear on television and rarely did on-the-record interviews with journalists; 

however, I regularly gave background interviews. 

Chapters 5 through 11, which cover my career at the Fed, draw on many sessions
over the years with Bob Woodward, transcripts of which he generously made available for this project. The transcripts were the basis for Maestro, his book about me and the Fed. 

The narrative in chapter 7 ("A Democrat's Agenda") of discussions with Paul O'Neill during his service as treasury secretary was helped by the accounts in The Price of Loyalty, the book on which he cooperated with journalist Ron Suskind. Similarly, my recollections of meetings and experiences with Bob Rubin and Larry Summers in chapters 8, 9, and 10 benefited from Secretary Rubin's memoir written with journalist Jacob Weisberg, In an Uncertain World.

My remembrances of the collapse of centralized planning and the growth of global capitalist markets (chapter 6, "The Fall of the Wall"; 

chapter 19, "Globalization and Regulation";
and elsewhere in this book) were enhanced by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw's seminal The Commanding Heights; the corresponding Web site (www.pbs.org/commanding heights) features interviews with world leaders and economists that are sometimes quoted in these pages.
Tom Friedman's The World Is Flat filled in a lot of gaps in my understanding of recent techno logical advances.

Interviews for this book were conducted with Bill Clinton, Stephen Breyer, Bob Rubin, Martin Anderson, Gene Sperling, Paul David, and others. This account is also informed by the work of my biographers. 

And the narrative throughout is influenced as well as inspired by the memoir
of my wife, Andrea Mitchell, Talking Back ... to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels.

I have striven to minimize the inevitable errors of memory by drawing quotations, facts, and descriptive details from primary documents, contemporary news accounts (in particular from the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the BBC, the Economist, Newsweek, and Time], standard reference works, and archival and market-data services. 

The Age of Turbulence derives from six decades of accumulated knowledge; 

to name all my sources, if I could remember them, would probably require as many pages as the book itself A select bibliography of books and articles follows.

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