The roaring nineties : seeds of destruction

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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.

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The 1990s promised prosperity for the world: a new era of unprecedented economic growth, with capitalism American-style reigning supreme. So why did it all go wrong? the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz was uniquely placed to watch first-hand as the '90s unfolded. faith in free market ideology created problems that could cost us all dearly. But more than that, it lays out a blueprint for the future. The '90s, Stiglitz concludes, witnessed a misguided attempt to achieve growth on the cheap - and we must learn from our mistakes or pay the price for years to come.