推薦序1 走進神秘的美聯儲

　　理查德·費舍 美聯儲達拉斯聯邦儲備銀行主席

　　我非常榮幸地見證了一個全新的,積極融入全球化的中國的誕生。1979年年初,在卡特總統任職期間,我陪同財政部部長佈盧門撒爾到北京會見鄧小平副總理和財政部部長張勁夫。中美雙方通過談判解決了解放戰爭造成的兩國財產爭議,重啟中美貿易大門。20年後,我作為克林頓總統的美國貿易談判代表,參與中美雙邊貿易協議的談判和簽訂,這個協議為中國加入WTO掃清了道路。

　　可以說,我是中國再次融入世界的第一見證人。但我發現，中國仍然存在一些習慣性的抵觸情緒,這種情緒阻礙了中國全面了解自己所處的世界,也阻礙了中國更好地融入世界。一個例子就是中國對世界上最重要的中央銀行——美聯儲存在誤解。

　　這種誤解最有力的證據就是《貨幣戰爭》一書在中國的流行。《貨幣戰爭》在中國不僅是流行讀物,甚至被不少政府官員傳閱,它成了曲解美聯儲目的和功能的錯誤信息源頭。美國也存在類似《貨幣戰爭》的陰謀論,但這些觀點只在極端政治群體中流行,並非主流。

　　王健作為美聯儲達拉斯聯邦儲備銀行的資深中國問題專家和出色的經濟學家,為大家精彩地還原了美聯儲真實的歷史和功能。我強烈建議中國的政府官員閱讀這部作品,同時也把它推薦給希望了解世界上最強大的中央銀行的學者、財經從業人員、商業精英和思想界領袖。

　　理查德·費舍主席簡介：費舍主席和中國的關係源遠流長。1979年，他陪同美國財政部部長佈盧門撒爾訪華,是中美兩國關係正常化,重啟雙邊貿易之門的重要策劃者和主要參與者。1997年至2001年擔任美國貿易談判代表期間，他參與了中美關於中國加入WTO的談判，推動了協議的簽訂。2005年後,費舍任美聯儲達拉斯聯邦儲備銀行主席,直接參與制定美國貨幣政策。

　　I had the good fortune to be a witness to the birth of the new, globally engaged China. In early 1979, at President Carter?s behest, I accompanied Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal in his meetings with Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping and Finance Minister Zhang Jinfu for negotiations settling the counterclaims our countries had on each other over property seized during the Communist Revolution and opening up our economies to trade with each other. Two decades later, working as President Clinton?s deputy U.S. trade representative, I helped negotiate the bilateral accord with the U.S. that paved the way for China?s accession to the World Trade Organization.

　　I have been a firsthand witness to China?s remarkable reengagement with the world. Yet I have also seen vestigial reactionary impulses that, in my view, impede China?s full understanding of the world she now operates within, restraining the effectiveness of that reengagement. One example is the incomplete understanding bordering on ignorance about the operations of the Federal Reserve, the world?s pivotal central bank．

　　Exhibit A of this phenomenon is the popularity of the book Currency Wars. It has not only been a bestseller in China; it has been read and reread by many government officials, instilling insidious misunderstandings of the purposes and functions of the Federal Reserve. These views are not dissimilar to those harbored by conspiratorial theorists within the extreme right and left wings of the American political spectrum．

　　Jian Wang, senior China specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a rising star economist, has written a superb Mandarin-language book about the true history and workings of the Federal Reserve. I strongly recommend this book to Chinese officialdom, as well as for Chinese scholars, financiers, business operators and thought leaders seeking to understand the whys and wherefores of the world?s most powerful central bank．

　　President and CEO

　　Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

本文摘自《還原真實的美聯儲》

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　　本書不僅對美聯儲的歷史背景、政策目標、組織架構和運行機制作了客觀明確的描述，而且對國內讀者特別關心的有關美聯儲的各個問題進行剖析，提出了獨到的見解；在澄清若幹對美聯儲的常見誤解之後，我們可以進一步了解美聯儲在全球經濟和金融市場上的作用及其行事邏輯，從而進一步增強對全球市場的預見能力！