Freefall : America, free markets, and the sinking of the world economy

Summary: Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies and bad behavior to the rest of the world. When World markets began to fail, America put together a haphazard response. Stiglitz outlines his responses to address the inequalities in the global financial and challenges economists for good ideas.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393338959
ISBN: 9780393075960
ISBN: 0393338959
Physical Description: print
xxx, 443 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: [Pbk. ed.].
Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	ODL_2016/2017.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-416) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The making of a crisis -- Freefall and its aftermath -- A flawed response -- The mortgage scam -- The great American Robbery -- Avarice triumphs over prudence -- A new capitalist order -- From global recovery to global prosperity -- Reforming economics -- Toward a new society -- Afterword.