The roaring nineties : a new history of the world's most prosperous decade

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How one of the greatest economic expansions in history sowed the seeds of its own collapse.With his best-selling Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz showed how a misplaced faith in free-market ideology led to many of the recent problems suffered by the developing nations. Here he turns the same light on the United States. The Roaring Nineties offers not only an insider's illuminating view of policymaking but also a compelling case 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. This groundbreaking work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist argues that much of what we understood about the 1990s' prosperity is wrong, that the theories that have been used to guide world leaders and anchor key business decisions were fundamentally outdated. Yes, jobs... Content: 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.