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Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010.Reviewed by: Charles C. CarterThis is t. e best ‘‘crisis’’ book yet, even better than Paul Krugman . s. There’s everything here and it’s up-to-date and authoritative. And Stiglitz confirms I was right in giving Tett’s book ...
In Freefall, Stiglitz traces the origins of the Great Recession, eschewing easy answers and demolishing the contention that America needs more billion-dollar bailouts and free passes to those “too big to fail,” while also outlining the alternatives and revealing that even now there are choices ahead that can make a difference.
Freefall is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the roots of the financial crisis. Stiglitz brilliantly analyzes the economic reasons behind the banking collapse, but he goes much further, digging down to the wrongheaded national faith in the power of free markets to regulate themselves and provide wealth for all.
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Feb 28, 2021 · xxx, 361 pages ; 25 cm 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.
317919706. LC Class. HB3722 .S842 2010b. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy [1] is a book on the causes and consequences of the Great Recession by economist and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, first published in 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company. While focusing on the roots of the financial crisis of 2007 ...
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
- 2010
The current global financial crisis carries a made in America label. 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.
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Jan 18, 2010 · As the Former Chief Economist of the World Bank, and a Nobel Prize Winner, Stiglitz clearly can write with authority on the world economy, and this book certainly deserves to be on the reading list of all candidates and interested voters in the next Election, if they would like to understand why American Style Capitalism has brought such abysmal consequences to America and the U.K..
