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Bezig met laden... The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade (2003)door Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. We all sense that there is something wrong in American economic and geo-political policies, that they have not been good for the world, but most of the time we are unable to put our finger on precisely how. Stiglitz, Nobel prize winner and one-time chief economic at the World Bank, and economic advisor to American Presidents, spells out in detail what exactly is wrong with the received neo-liberal economics as laid out in the so-called Washington Consensus, pushed unthinkingly on many of the newly independent countries of Eastern Europe with disastrous consequences, and ultimately damaging to the Americans themselves, with their astronomical national debt and individual indebtedness, failing public welfare institutions like public hospitals, education, public safety and law and order, deteriorating race relations, deteriorating public infrastructure,and other manifestations of their cult of individualism. All this is supported by the author's intimate presence in the Presidential bodies during Clinton's time,as well as his wide knowledge of international relations and of course his academic brilliance. The writing, moreover, is transparent and direct, easy and pleasant to read through. ( ) If only more people, in Washington and on Wall Street, had read this book when it was published; Stiglitz nails many of the deep root causes of the current economic malaise in this history of the 90's boom. His explanations can be pedantic, but are never overly steeped in theory. A great deal of his argument is common sense, but like a true academic (he is a Nobel Prize-winning economist) Stiglitz lays out lots of what's wrong with our current deregulated financial markets. Stiglitz's arguements, so strong on the economy, are not helped by his uninspired attempts at an "inside baseball" look at economic policy-making in the Clinton White House. Quick to claim that his advice would have kept us out of the lurch, Stiglitz fails to offer much insight into how his seemingly great advice was so regularly turned down by decision-makers. If you read focused on the broad economic insight and not on the politics, this is a decent high-level survey of what went wrong in the boom economy of the late 90's. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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 were created, technology prospered, inflation fell, and poverty was reduced. But at the same time the foundation was laid for the economic problems we face today. Trapped in a near-ideological commitment to free markets, policymakers permitted accounting standards to slip, carried deregulation further than they should have, and pandered to corporate greed. These chickens have now come home to roost.The paperback includes a new introduction that reviews the continued failure of the Bush administration's policies, which have taken a bad situation and made it worse. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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