The roaring nineties : a new history of the world's most prosperous decade / Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stiglitz, Joseph E.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enron Corp.

Accounting.

United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.

United States.

Economic conditions.

United States--Economic policy--1993-2001.

Economic policy.

Globalization.

Enron Corp--Accounting.

Economic history.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

lxiv, 378 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 2004.

Summary:

Stiglitz offers not only an insider's illuminating view of policymaking but also alleges that even the Clinton administration was too closely tied to the financial community--that along with enormous economic success in the nineties came the seeds of the destruction visited on the economy at the end of the decade.

Contents:

Boom and bust: seeds of destruction

Miracleworkers, or lucky mistakes?

The all-powerful Fed and its role in inflating the bubble

Deregulation run amok

Creative accounting

The banks and the bubble

Tax cuts: feeding the frenzy

Making risk a way of life

Globalization: early forays

Enron

Debunking the myths

Toward a new democratic idealism: vision and values

Epilogue: further lessons on how to mismanage the economy.

Notes:

Includes new preface to the pbk. ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0393326187

9780393326185

OCLC:

56917950