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Challenges perceptions about financial theories stemming from the apparent prosperity of the 1990s, noting such factors as reduced accounting standards and deregulation that caused the economic problems of today.
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Joseph E. Stiglitz witnessed the policymaking process firsthand as a member and then chairman of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. His book Globalization and Its Discontents has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He holds joint professorships at Columbia University's Economics Department, School of International and Public Affairs, and Business School, and was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. He lives in New York City.
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As an economic adviser to President Clinton and a World Bank official, Nobel Prize winner Stiglitz (Globalization and Its Discontents) had a front-row seat for the financial boom of the 1990s. He discusses how, contrary to all theory, reducing the national deficit led to the economic upswing, but his interest lies not in how the bubble happened but in those qualities that eventually led to its collapse. One of his chief arguments is that although efficient markets depend upon the free flow of information, deregulation enabled corporations like Enron to present distorted financial data, "stealing money from their unwary shareholders" in the process. Financial analysts also withheld frank assessments from investors to maintain their insider status, and the "conflicts of interest gone out of control" inevitably led to disaster. The book suggests Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan could have slowed things down, but failed to back up tentative public remarks with firm action. The Clinton administration also comes in for some of the blame for pressuring foreign countries to adopt policies it wouldn't apply to its own economy. But the largest portion of the blame is doled out to George W. Bush for mishandling the initial stages of the recession, allowing it to spiral dangerously in the name of free markets. Instead, Stiglitz calls for just enough regulation to promote what he dubs "Democratic Idealism," a fairly standard liberal platform of social justice and economic reform. Whatever one thinks of his long-term goals, the straightforward and well-reasoned summation of the last decade's market trends has a convincing ring of truth.
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0393058522
- ISBN 13 9780393058529
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages256
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