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How one of the greatest economic expansions in history sowed the seeds of its own collapse.
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that the theories that have been used to guide world leaders and anchor key business decisions were fundamentally outdated.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.
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Money, money, money..........2006-07-09
That is what the 90's was all about according to this book; specifically easy money that came about due to speculation, easy credit laws, and loosened federal regulations of the financial sector. The end of the Cold War and the resulting "peace dividend" brought about an era of optimism. Added to this was the takeover of Congress and many state governments by Republicans bent on loosening rules on businesses and making a more investment - friendly environment. Together, this created a bull market across the financial markets of the world, which in turn helped pushed up property prices. The target of this new money, the Internet and businesses involved with it. Hence the dot.com bubble. This story of greed, speculation, and risk-taking is laid out by this Nobel-Prize winner of Economics and Clinton advisor; Joseph Stiglitz. The book flows well and provides insider insight into what was going on in business and government circles both here and around the world. Overall, a good read.
A new form of social Darwinism: let the fittest survive.......2006-02-24
Joseph Stiglitz's analysis of the national and international social and economic policies of the Bush II governments is devastating.
Nationally, the state of the union is far from brilliant with its huge wealth inequality, a large number of people in prison, anxiety and insecurity (millions without health insurance), high infant mortality rates, unconcern about the deterioration of the environment and health care provisions below those of far poorer countries.
In the `roaring nineties', Stiglitz sees the fundamentalist free market ideology of the Bush II governments as a façade for a political agenda: crony capitalism (Enron, Worldcom), downsizing of government, favouring the wealthy. Overwhelming private interests and corporate greed lead to misguided and biased deregulation, bad tax policies, misguided accounting policies, too little investment in vital public needs, education, infrastructure and basic research. Tax cuts were hypocritically sold as good for everyone (trickle-down economy), while the result was frugality for the poor and generosity for the well-off.
Internationally, the US speaks of the rule of law, but it rejects this rule time and again (UN, International Criminal Court, Kyoto Agreements, strategic arms treaty).
Dr. Sam delivered misguided economic prescriptions to the rest of the world via the US controlled IMF. Its free trade rhetoric conceals the fact that the US lives year after year beyond its means, while it lectures others not to do it. In fact, the poor countries are subsidizing the richest: the total value of the benefits that the US gets out of the current system exceeds by a considerable amount the total foreign aid the US provides.
Stiglitz own precepts, called `Democratic Idealism', are based on 3 cornerstones: social justice, political values (democracy and freedom) and the relationship between individuals and communities. It is a vision with a balanced role for government (investments in education and technology, social protection), an attempt to achieve social justice at local and global level, and based on individual and national responsibility.
This book is superbly sarcastic: the conglomerate discount instead of the conglomerate premium (the synergies didn't work out). Or, the 3 Golden Rules of corporate capitalism: first, oppose subsidies except for your own sector; secondly, favour competition except for your own business; thirdly, favour openness and transparency except for your own books.
With his superb free mind, Professor Stiglitz's book served perfectly his adage that `information is more important than ever': a well-informed public is the basis of a well-functioning democracy.
A must read.
I also highly recommend Walden Bello's `Dilemmas of Domination' (a voice from the South) and Robert Heilbroner's `Behind the Veil of Economics `.
worthy of being read but misses major elements.......2006-01-19
Stiglitz's book is delighful and easy reading. He has a boyish, if not at times a child-like, self-absorbed style which entertains but also becomes too often repetitive. For the general public, it is highly beneficial to become familiarized with the inside story of the Clinton administration's successes and failures. The book is almost a psychocatharsis and written with commendable moral outrage over the most massive corporate and Wall Street corruption in all of modern economic history. Hundreds of billions were stolen from millions of Americans in a stock market mania worse than tulip mania in Holland 350 years ago. At least, the buyer of the tulip had a nice flower at a price of the most expensive mansion in all of Amsterdam while the millions who bought shares of corporations which did not produce anything and would never produce anything had nothing.
Stiglitz deserves commendation for describing the institutionalized theft on part of Enron, WorldCom et al. and Wall Street. He makes the case that the recovery under Clinton was not the result of deficit reduction, describes the massive accounting frauds, deals with globalizations and informs us of the various improvements under Clinton as well as its failures and the many causes of the stock market bubble of the roaring nineties. He attempts a balanced and fair approach, yet misses one of the major causes of the economic expansion of the nineties, namely the massive reallocation of resources away from military spending to non-military spending in the form of tax reduction allowing more consumer spending and in the form of redirecting gov't spending to refurbishing infrastructure. This involved hundreds of billions of dollars and fueled the roaring nineties. In other words, the Clinton adminstration, as a result of the collapse of communism, was able to put the priority on domestic development while the Bush II administration again put the priority on foreign policy over domestic policy which will continue and accelerate the relative economic decline of America.
Even Ireland's GDP is now 20 percent above the U.S. and Norway's is close to 60 percent wealthier than the U.S. Stiglitz misses this major element that the U.S. economy never has been anywhere as wealthy nor as capitalistic as we all assume it to have been. The private sector has always been heavily socialistic-collectivistic in the U.S. while the European public sector, though more socialistic-collectivistic, has nevertheless allowed more truly capitalistic processes to make the masses wealthier and allow them to live in far nicer human habitation than those who live in slumerica in hovels, shacks, trailer homes and decayed towns and cities. And this is achieved with far fewer resources in the advanced economies of Europe and Japan. Any cursory examination of comparative family/household net worth, which has not been growing at all in the U.S. for many decades, will show that EU net worth outmatches America's by far and has been growing in spite of lower GDP growth and far fewer resources.
Essentially, Stiglitz missed the important fact that wealth in the U.S. has shifted from family/individual control to bureaucratic control as is in evidence to anyone traveling from coast to coast and from the Canadian to Mexican borders. Moreover, Stiglitz, while he touches upon educational shortcomings, needs to stress the fact that bureaucracies in the U.S. do not institutionalize excellence on a level comparable to foreign economies, and most of them have divorced themselves from economic realities and have become a burden for society, viz. the military, educational, medical, political, even religious bureaucracies all, more or less, are culpable of this. Essentially, the U.S. has not done a lot with a lot of resources while Japan, Singapore, most advanced economies of the EU, etc. all have done a lot with few resources and have a state of human habitation far outmatching the filth and squalor that characterizes most of the U.S. Moreover, and this is part of advanced economic comparative analysis, those who are wealthy in the U.S. ever more retreat to securitized and gated communities which have increased from 2000 to 20,000 in 50 years or so. Those who retreat to them exercise a vote of no confidence to the overall economic evolution and, what is worse, they tend to produce products that do not pull the masses out of their squalor but rather abet their worsening economic fate, unlike what this frequent traveler to Europe sees over there. In Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, many towns match, are close to or exceed the wealth and beauty of Vail, Colorado, one of the premier resorts of the U.S. Moreover, the average EU worker works more than two months less each year than the average U.S. worker, though the latter has little or no upward mobility and no growing net worth for decades. A growing and worsening spatial-organizational pattern also prevents improvement for the masses since transportation costs are growing and now consume 23 percent of take-home pay. Essentially, a massive economic tragedy has unfolded in the U.S. which Stiglitz, unfortunately, completely missed. Lastly, the book would have benefited from better editorial proofreading which could have eliminated repetition and irrelevant editorializing and some mistakes such as citing, in a footnote, Senator Dole as being from Nebraska instead of Kansas.
Stiglitz quite correctly focuses on two major elements throughout his book: l. the asymmetry of knowledge in various markets and 2. the search for a proper balance between government and markets which he views to have gone too far in de-regulations. Both deserve the attention he gives them.
Awesome book but a little out of balance.......2006-01-06
All together an absolutely riveting book put together by someone who's seen it all and been there. Few academics, indeed very few, have had the ringside view as Joseph Stiglitz had, first as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1997 and then Sr. Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank from 1997 to 200. And all this on top of a sterling academic career at places like Stanford, Princeton and Columbia which earned him a Nobel in 2001-all in all, an absolutely sterling set of credentials.
The book in itself is completely riveting. I started reading it at about 9 p.m. on a lazy January evening during the holidays and could not put it down till 3 a.m. when I was finally finished. The book is structured into several different chapters, 12 in total, the first 11 of which talk about the ills that plagued the free market system in the decade of the 1990s. In the final chapter, to round it all up, he proposes a set of alternative ways and means labeling it as the "New Democratic Idealism." All the usual suspects that you would expect to find in a book critical of free markets are there such as Enron, the accounting scandals, the stock market bubble and capital account liberalization. But then there are things which you would not expect in a typical book, for instance, a fairly critical stance on the role played by the Fed, including its venerable chairman, Alan Greenspan as also a harsh scrutiny of several practices at Wall Street which involved serious conflicts of interest.
Unlike his book titled "Globalization and its discontents" which for the most part, is a rant against the IMF and relates to his experiences with international economies at the World Bank, the present volume relates more to domestic politics and policies and was shaped largely by the role he played in the Clinton administration and the debates that he had with other arms of the government such as the Treasury and the Fed. Only one chapter in the book is exclusively devoted to the topic of globalization in developing economies, the heightened level of insecurity globalization breeds in these nations and how the process of globalization has to better take into account the aspirations of the disadvantaged.
The book, as I have said above, is good. Not just the content, but the way it is structured, the overall readability (including but not limited to the font size) is great. However it suffers from a set of problems like his earlier book "Globalization and Its Discontents." In some ways, it mentions all the ills of the free market system without mentioning any of the redeeming features of the system which have led to a huge improvement in living standards around the world, particularly in those countries which have embraced free markets with zeal. Beyond the general criticism, some specifics would be as follows:
a) Professor Stiglitz mentions that the 2001 recession was among the worst seen in the post-war period-Incorrect! The fact remains that the recession, (if it can be called that since we did not have actual negative GDP growth), lasted for only 2 quarters from March 2001 to November 2001 and was among the shortest recessions in the post war period.
b) With regard to social security, he presents a far too rosy scenario focusing on the system today and not on its potential insolvency in the not too distant future. Again he does an injustice by not mentioning the actual state of affairs.
c) Also with respect to his love for European version of social democracy, especially the Scandinavian style, it needs to be tempered with the stories of the pathetic growth rates of these economies in the recent past.
Overall a great book but one you need to balance out by keeping in mind the ideological sympathies of the author and taking some of his comments with a pinch, just a pinch of salt.
Understanding fiduciary responsibility.......2005-10-15
I take issue with the analysis Mr. Stiglitz offers in the section titled "How pension 'reform' increased economic vulnerability" (pp. 185-8). Accept for the moment Mr. Stiglitz' premise: the reason why corporate pension trust funds are underfunded is because unrealistic, overly optimistic assumptions were made about future returns on investment; namely, it was assumed that investments would return 9-10% instead of 4-5%. The question presents itself: Who made these unrealistic assumptions? Well, corporate financial officers, to start with. And yet, corporate officers are not the only interested parties when it comes to pension trust funds: pension benefits are negotiated on behalf of beneficiaries (union workers) by their union officers; furthermore, the financial soundness of the trust funds is overseen by agencies of the federal government.
When union leaders are negotiating a collective bargaining agreement with management or when federal officials are examining the adequacy of pension funding, they are in the same position a loan officer is in when trying to decide whether to grant a loan to an applicant. The loan officer has a fiduciary responsibility to depositors to make sure that the applicant will be able to pay off the loan. In like manner, union leaders and federal officials have a fiduciary responsibility to union members to make sure that management will be able to pay promised pension and healthcare benefits. If the loan officers don't follow this discipline, the bank will make lots of bad loans. If the union leaders and federal officials don't follow this discipline, the unions will accept promises in collective bargaining agreements that management will not be able to keep. In the case of massive bad loans, the bank becomes insolvent and the FSLIC steps in to guarantee deposits (as happened in the S&L debacle). In the case of unions and federal officials accepting promises that management can't keep, the pension fund becomes insolvent and the PBGC steps in to guarantee the pension benefits of the members.
In other words, if a borrower fails to pay off a loan, it is a failure not only on the part of the borrower, but also on the part of the loan officer who did such a poor job of assessing the borrower's ability to pay the loan back. Likewise, if a corporation fails to pay pension benefits, it is a failure not only on the part of the corporation, but also on the part of the union officials who negotiated the benefits package and the government officials who oversaw the entire process.
So, either ALL parties, corporate executives, union leaders, and federal officials, should be faulted for making overly optimistic assumptions about pension funding, or NO party should be faulted. It is quite possible that no moral fault is to be assigned to ANY party in this case. A plausible explanation is that executives, union leaders, and federal officials were acting in good faith and with best knowledge at the time the obligations were agreed on, but that the situation has changed so dramatically that the actuarial assumptions originally used to calculate funding adequacy are simply no longer valid. The many recent bankruptcies in the steel, airline, and automobile industries, hastened by crushing pension and OPEB liabilities, have made it painfully evident that defined benefit pension plans, so prevalent in decades past, are no longer viable in our current era of globalization and offshore competition. Instead of acknowledging the existence of a new era, Mr. Stiglitz seems to place the blame exclusively on corporate executives, "the firms," as he calls them. This is unfair.
Despite the problems I have with Mr. Stiglitz' one-sided view of the causes of the underfunding of pensions, "The Roaring Nineties," like so many of his other writings, is not to be missed. We must appreciate a passionate and brilliant author who thinks seriously about so wide a range of issues.
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Los felices 90 (The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade)
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How one of the greatest economic expansions in history sowed the seeds of its own collapse. In the 1990's, 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. This groundbreaking work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist argues that much of what we understood about the 90s' prosperity is wrong, that the theories that have been used to guide world leaders and anchor key business decisions were fundamentally outdated.
Description in Spanish: La década de los noventa marcó el surgimiento de la nueva economía, caracterizada por unos incrementos de productividad que duplicaban o triplicaban lo conocido durante las dos décadas precedentes. Pero los felices noventa se acabaron bien pronto, antes incluso de que Bill Clinton abandonara la Casa Blanca. La economía entró en recesión y los escándalos empresariales destronaron a los sumos sacerdotes del capitalismo: daba la impresión de que los directivos de algunas empresas estaban lucrando a expensas de sus accionistas y empleados. La globalización, que tan recientemente se había saludado como el comienzo de un mundo nuevo, también parecía verse con malos ojos. La reunión de la Organización Mundial del Comercio celebrada en Seattle en 1999, que tenía por fin ahondar en la apertura del mundo, acabó en disturbios protagonizados por grupos preocupados por los efectos, a veces devastadores, que la globalización tiene sobre los más pobres. Es necesario arrojar nueva luz sobre lo que ocurrió esos años, acentuando la necesidad de reinterpretarlos. Existe una pugna ideológica entre quienes abogan por reducir al mínimo la intervención del Estado en la economía y quienes sostienen que el Gobierno debe asumir un papel importante no sólo para corregir las carencias y limitaciones del mercado, sino también para tender hacia un grado más alto de justicia social. Stiglitz se cuenta entre los segundos, y en este libro pretende explicar por qué está convencido de que, aun cuando los mercados centralicen el éxito de nuestra economía, si los dejamos operar solos no siempre funcionan como debieran.
Esta obra no se limita a reescribir la historia económica de los noventa: es, en la misma medida, una historia del futuro, del punto en el que los países desarrollados se encuentran en este momento y de hacia dónde deberían tender para que la economía mundial llegue a un curso más justo y estable.
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Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization (Volume in Lea's Communication Series)
Anne Maydan Nicotera ,
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Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization presents an innovative view of organizations and the communication processes that constitute them. Arguing that human beings are communicatively embedded in their cultures, Anne Maydan Nicotera and Marcia J. Clinkscales, working with Felicia R. Walker, examine issues concerning task and relational orientations and the ways they and other cultural dimensions connect with organizational structure and function for predominantly African American organizations. Utilizing the results of their own research on organizations, they develop a set of humanistically-based models that illustrate how hidden cultural processes suffuse organizational life and are manifest through communication.
Emphasizing the development of alternative theories and models of organizing which are rooted in African-American culture, such as team-based versus hierarchy-based interactions, this book explores such organizational functions as leadership and management, power, authority and control, communication and interpersonal dynamics, and cultural identity and human development. Applying their findings in a broader analysis of contemporary practices in organizational restructuring, the authors present research that serves as the foundation for generating several emergent models with significant implications for organizational systems.
Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure stimulates and inspires current researchers of organizational communication, and is certain to raise greater awareness of the operation of culture in organizing. The text is intended for scholars and students in organizational communication, management, organizational psychology, African studies, and related areas.
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Understanding Organizations through Language
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`Makes fascinating reading and at the same time provides a good grounding in the study of the language of organizations, both for those who know little of the area and for those who are looking for a comprehensive overview of the field. Overall I would warmly recommend this book as an asset for students and teachers of organizational behaviour and for those with a general interest in the way in which language shapes our lives and work'
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`The book is extremely clear in its explanation of how language works.... The authors treat their readers as curious, intelligent and concerned to find new and powerful tools to come at the workings of organizations from a lateral and newly illuminating perspective' -
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`The authors are able to apply their personal fascination with language to give students insights into organisational behaviour that significantly surpasses what is normally achieved by the tired old rituals of standard organizational behaviour texts and teaching' -
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Understanding Organizations through Language offers a viable alternative based on `webs of meaning'. Instead of viewing communication as a thing that can be unproblematically controlled and managed, the authors use semiology as a theoretical bedrock to develop a new metaphor for communication.
Understanding Organizations through Language applies this approach to areas of interest, including: metaphor, story-telling, discourse, gender, leadership and electronic communication.
Spanning the gap between highly theoretical organization studies texts and highly prescriptive communication texts, the book talks to the reader in a sophisticated yet approachable style. This style is complemented by a range of examples, activities and mini case studies. Also included are chapter summaries and further reading suggestions, making this a useful text for both academics and students.
Advanced undergraduates and postgraduates will utilize this book for any course dealing with communication, particularly courses in HRM and organizational behaviour.
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Chinese and Related North American Herbs: Phytopharmacology and Therapeutic Values
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Covering 1800 species of Chinese herbs and 700 related North American species, Chinese and Related North American Herbs: Phytopharmacology and Therapeutic Values provides clearly formatted tables that give you quick and easy access to information gathered from a wide variety of sources, both eastern and western, including those not generally available through usual searches. Written by the author of Medicinal Plants this book: · Presents the major constituents and therapeutic values of Chinese medicinal herbs · Contains data on toxicity, major chemical components and their therapeutic values · Provides Latin, Chinese, and English names for more than 1800 species · Includes three appendices that provide handy cross-references: Chinese and scientific names; major chemical components of Chinese herbs, and major chemical components of related North American herbs · Highlights the relationship between Chinese and North American medicinal herbs and possible replacements for Chinese with North American herbs · Compares active ingredients and claimed therapeutic values The wealth of information, attention to detail, and extensive research and references presented by Chinese and Related North America Herb: Phytopharmacology and Therapeutic Values makes it the resource to have on your shelf.
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- A New Approach to Teaching Astronomy
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Messages from Space: The Solar System and Beyond : Grades 5-8 (Great Explorations in Math & Science)
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Building on collaborative work between SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute and the Lawrence Hall of Science, Messages from Space takes advantage of our fascination with extraterrestrial to catalyze study of the solar system and beyond. The activities create an exciting context for students to engage in creative learning, gaining a great deal of astronomical knowledge.
The unit begins when students attempt to decode a fictitious message from outer space. Imagining that they are SEIT scientists, students begin to analyze, where, in the solar system and beyond, there may be conditions favorable for life. They investigate how our solar system and other planetary systems may have formed, and consider how what we know about the solar system and other planetary systems fits into a bigger picture of the universe. Throughout, students consider whether life could exist "out there" and, if so, how we might communicate with those life forms. Students also gain valuable experience distinguishing science fact from sensationalized fiction.
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A New Approach to Teaching Astronomy.......2005-07-28
As a 5th Grade teacher, I look forward to exposing my students to this portion of the science curriculum. Very untext-book-like, but full of oohs and ahs, especially the Carl Sagan quotes, the hands-on activities, and the imaginative stories the children will write.
A great intro to space science for middle school teachers!.......2002-05-08
This is a great book that helps middle school teachers explain space to students. It includes lessons on distances, star types, creative writing, and thinking skills.
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Solar System Grade 5-8
Barbara Notarianni
Manufacturer: W E L S Board for Parish Education
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0887244467 |
Book Description
This book, one of a three-book series, is based upon a popular theme, The Solar System, and provides carefully designed reproducible worksheets directing students to use information from the Internet. Students simply go to Didax's Netschool as directed at the top of each page. From there they will be guided to the relevant website to begin their work. Clear and precise instructions walk students through the activities. The worksheets are language- based and help to develop comprehension, writing, word study and research skills. Answers are provided at the back of each book.
Also in the Internet Theme Series are The Sea, Grades 5-8 and Endangered Animals, Grades 5-8.
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