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Love money? Love to hate it? Try some of our new economically minded books.

Stiglitz, Joseph E.
The roaring nineties: a new history of the world’s most prosperous decade
HC 106.82 .S75 2003

Stiglitz "feels that the rule of finance in the 1990s was supreme and government deferred too much to Wall Street; the prosperity and growth of that decade laid the foundation for today's economic problems, including too much deregulation, inadequate accounting standards, and pandering to corporate greed. Issues of globalization concern him greatly, and he analyzes the current situation in America and other developed countries and suggests future action" (Booklist review).

Gorman, Tom
The complete idiot’s guide to economics
HB 171.5 .G6484 2003

"Local or global, economic issues are on the public's mind-but making sense of supply and demand isn't so simple. This book explains in everyday terms how markets work, introducing the key players-consumers, business, and government-and using their behavior to illustrate basic theories and ideas. In addition, it coaches both general readers and students in the key concepts and analytical tools of macroeconomics and microeconomics, and teaches the dynamics of markets, consumer behavior, business investment, budgets and taxation, recession and expansions, unemployment and inflation, and more" (Book description).