The roaring nineties : seeds of destruction
by
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Title
:
The roaring nineties : seeds of destruction
Author
:
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
ISBN
:
9780713997224
Personal Author
:
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publication Information
:
London : Allen Lane, 2003.
Physical Description
:
xxxiv, 389 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
:
Ch. 1. Boom and Bust: Seeds of Destruction -- Ch. 2. Miracleworkers, or Lucky Mistakes? -- Ch. 3. The All-Powerful Fed and Its Role in Inflating the Bubble -- Ch. 4. Deregulation Run Amok -- Ch. 5. Creative Accounting -- Ch. 6. The Banks and the Bubble -- Ch. 7. Tax Cuts: Feeding the Frenzy -- Ch. 8. Making Risk a Way of Life -- Ch. 9. Globalization: Early Forays -- Ch. 10. Enron -- Ch. 11. Debunking the Myths -- Ch. 12. Toward a New Democratic Idealism: Vision and Values -- Epilogue: Further Lessons on How to Mismanage the Economy.
Abstract
:
"From the author of Globalization and Its Discontents comes a history of the boom and bust of the 1990s - how and why it happened, how the seeds of destruction were sown in the midst of apparent prosperity, and how America and the world are still failing to learn the lessons from what went wrong."--BOOK JACKET.
Corporate Subject
:
Enron Corp. -- Accounting.
Subject Term
:
Globalization.
Geographic Term
:
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001.
United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
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| Cataloguing | Unknown | 27650-1002 | NO CONFIGURATION | 2 |