The Roaring Nineties - Why We're Paying the Price for the Greediest Decade in History

Informationen zum Autor Joseph E. Stiglitz was Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers 1995-7 and Chief Economist at the World Bank 1997-2000. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University, teaching in the Department of Economics, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Graduate School of Business. He is also the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and is the bestselling author of Globalization and Its Discontents , The Roaring Nineties , Making Globalization Work , Freefall , The Price of Inequality , The Great Divide and Power, People, and Profits , all published by Penguin. Klappentext Tells the story of how capitalism US-style got its comeuppance: how excessive deregulation, government pandering to big business and exorbitant CEO salaries all fed the bubble that burst so dramatically amid corporate scandal and anti-globalization protest. Zusammenfassung Tells the story of how capitalism US-style got its comeuppance: how excessive deregulation, government pandering to big business and exorbitant CEO salaries all fed the bubble that burst so dramatically amid corporate scandal and anti-globalization protest.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Stiglitz
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.06.2004
• EAN: 9780141014319
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101431-9
• No. of pages: 389
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Wirtschaftspolitik, Wirtschaftskrise, Marktwirtschaft, Neunziger Jahre, 90er Jahre, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Economic history, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999