Stiglitz, Joseph E.

The roaring nineties : a new history of the world's most prosperous decade / Joseph E. Stiglitz. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2003. - xxxiv, 379 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Boom and bust: seeds of destruction -- Miracle workers, 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.

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Enron Corp.--Accounting.


Globalization.


United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.
United States--Economic policy--1993-2001.

HC106.82 / .S75 2003

330.9730929/S854r