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Author Stiglitz, Joseph E.

Title Freefall : America, free markets, and the sinking of the world economy / Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Imprint New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  330.973 St52f 2010    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxx, 361 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-361).
Contents The making of a crisis -- Freefall and its aftermath -- A flawed response -- The mortgage scam -- The Great American Robbery -- Avarice triumps over prudence -- A new capitalist order -- From global recovery to global prosperity -- Reforming economics -- Toward a new society.
Summary In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective response when the markets finally seized up. Stiglitz then outlines a way to restore the balance between markets and government, address the inequalities of the global financial system, and demand more good ideas (and less ideology) from economists.
Subject Financial crises -- United States.
Finance -- Government policy -- United States.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001.
United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-2009.
Added Title Free fall
ISBN 9780393075960 (hbk.)
0393075966 (hbk.)

 
    
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