The roaring nineties
Subtitle: a new history of the world's most prosperous decade
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Enron Corp. -- Accounting; Globalization; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001; United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Boom and bust: seeds of destruction; title: Miracle workers, or lucky mistakes?; title: The all-powerful Fed and its role in inflating the bubble; title: Deregulation run amok; title: Creative accounting; title: The banks and the bubble; title: Tax cuts: feeding the frenzy; title: Making risk a way of life; title: Globalization: early forays; title: Enron; title: Debunking the myths; title: Toward a new democratic idealism: vision and values; title: Epilogue: further lessons on how to mismanage the economy.