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The roaring nineties : a new history of the world's most prosperous decade / Joseph E. Stiglitz
Bib ID 2628243
Format BookBook
Author
Stiglitz, Joseph E
 
Edition 1st ed. 
Description New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2003 
xxxiv, 379 p. ; 25 cm. 
ISBN 0393058522 
Summary

"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.

Full 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
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-358) and index.

Subjects Enron Corp. - Accounting.  |  Globalization.  |  United States - Economic conditions - 1981-2001.  |  United States - Economic policy - 1993-2001.

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