TY - BOOK AU - Swonk,Diane TI - The passionate economist: finding the power and humanity behind the numbers SN - 0471269964 (acidfree) U1 - 330.973 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Hoboken, N.J. PB - Wiley & Sons KW - Economists KW - United States KW - Economic policy KW - Economic conditions N1 - Includes index; The Forest Gump syndrome -- Igniting a passion -- The first in white-collar downsizing -- Doing economics right : a road map -- Tapping the power with applications -- Testing our credibility -- Getting further established -- Moving out of the 1980s -- The "jobless" recovery -- Changes underway in credit markets and the Fed -- A "virtuous" cycle -- Crisis at home and abroad -- The second shoe drops -- Fertile ground for asset bubbles -- Y2K and other monsters of 2000 -- The economics of the Internet -- Old rules for the new economy -- Applying rules 1 and 2 -- Hitting a wall -- Applying rule number 3 -- Risk management at the Fed -- Benchmark revisions -- A scapegoat or an 800-pound gorilla? -- The quiet before the storm -- A recessionette? -- A fundamental disconnect -- Framing the outlook -- Structural change -- A shallow pool of answers -- Reading the tea leaves -- The optimism and devotion of the young UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley045/2002153259.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley038/2002153259.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/wiley031/2002153259.html ER -