The roaring nineties : a new history of the world's most prosperous decade - Stiglitz, Joseph E. (New York : W.W. Norton, 2003)
Boom and bust: seeds of destruction -- Miracle workers, 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Enron Corp. -- Accounting; Globalization; Economics; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001.; United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001.