2008年の金融危機関連本の一つですが、何が起きたのかということよりもその原因分析とこれから何をすべきかの検討に重点が置かれていますので、何が起きたのかに自信がない方は、別の本(PaulsonのON THE BRINKがおすすめ)で復習をしてから読んだほうがよいと思います。Stiglitzは政府による金融規制の必要性を外部不経済(externalities)の観点から強く主張しており、規制はイノベーションを阻害するという金融業界からの反論に対しては、これまで社会に役立つ金融イノベーションなど一つもなかったことを再三にわたって論証しています。これから成すべき事は金融改革に留まらず、グローバルな観点からの経済改革が必要であり、その目的となる新しい社会のあり方に関する議論で本書は締めくくられています。経済学に基づいた議論が多くちょっと難しいところもありますが、ジャーナリストや危機当事者達の書いた金融危機関連本とは違った深みがあると思います。
内容的には星5つですが、索引がないのに加えて目次が雑なために読み返しにくく、星4つとしました。
プライム無料体験をお試しいただけます
プライム無料体験で、この注文から無料配送特典をご利用いただけます。
非会員 | プライム会員 | |
---|---|---|
通常配送 | ¥410 - ¥450* | 無料 |
お急ぎ便 | ¥510 - ¥550 | |
お届け日時指定便 | ¥510 - ¥650 |
*Amazon.co.jp発送商品の注文額 ¥3,500以上は非会員も無料
無料体験はいつでもキャンセルできます。30日のプライム無料体験をぜひお試しください。
¥2,864¥2,864 税込
発送元: Amazon.co.jp 販売者: Amazon.co.jp
¥2,864¥2,864 税込
発送元: Amazon.co.jp
販売者: Amazon.co.jp
¥256¥256 税込
配送料 ¥350 6月7日-8日にお届け
発送元: もったいない本舗 ※通常24時間以内に出荷可能です。 ※商品状態保証。 販売者: もったいない本舗 ※通常24時間以内に出荷可能です。 ※商品状態保証。
¥256¥256 税込
配送料 ¥350 6月7日-8日にお届け
発送元: もったいない本舗 ※通常24時間以内に出荷可能です。 ※商品状態保証。
販売者: もったいない本舗 ※通常24時間以内に出荷可能です。 ※商品状態保証。
無料のKindleアプリをダウンロードして、スマートフォン、タブレット、またはコンピューターで今すぐKindle本を読むことができます。Kindleデバイスは必要ありません。
ウェブ版Kindleなら、お使いのブラウザですぐにお読みいただけます。
携帯電話のカメラを使用する - 以下のコードをスキャンし、Kindleアプリをダウンロードしてください。
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy ペーパーバック – 2010/10/4
英語版
Joseph E. Stiglitz
(著)
{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"¥2,864","priceAmount":2864.00,"currencySymbol":"¥","integerValue":"2,864","decimalSeparator":null,"fractionalValue":null,"symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"9t6cfK92baM4csa4QS%2FpOvWgccKGr5YXrtWNxoF4%2FpgRyoKb4eLr0B%2FQgXt4CQDj8i%2BV0NO1rH5c8JNu61vBhobCVQShA2Sc6Px1DQ253G5kkmoS7JIcyqIZLFEcdn7x","locale":"ja-JP","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"¥256","priceAmount":256.00,"currencySymbol":"¥","integerValue":"256","decimalSeparator":null,"fractionalValue":null,"symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"9t6cfK92baM4csa4QS%2FpOvWgccKGr5YX0sAbV29Al30%2FXX6Etx8JPvw5akn4ta%2B%2FWXaEXT9rvN0O%2B7zrclgKBe4LBwVUQOXLP%2F%2FzUcOILz02ShgGiaOl6mctf2jDhfCuKaz0vJjTUHImxbJeT7RADUxEDho3LFa1FCEqfE2mJuXytLpbD0E4%2BA%3D%3D","locale":"ja-JP","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}
購入オプションとあわせ買い
New York TimesFreefallFreefall
- 本の長さ443ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社W W Norton & Co Inc
- 発売日2010/10/4
- 寸法13.97 x 3.05 x 21.08 cm
- ISBN-100393338959
- ISBN-13978-0393338959
商品の説明
レビュー
Freefall is a spirited attack on Wall Street, the free market and the Washington consensus.--David Smith "The Times [London]"
As a Nobel Prize winner, member of the cabinet under former President Bill Clinton and chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, Joseph E. Stiglitz has some practical ideas on how to ease the pain of the Great Recession and maybe help prevent the next one.--Carl Hartman "Associated Press"
Asks some basic and provocative questions... 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.--Chuck Leddy "Boston Globe"
Mr. Stiglitz uses his experience teaching to give the lay reader a lucid account of how overleveraged banks, a shoddy mortgage industry, predatory lending and unregulated trading contributed to the meltdown, and how, in his opinion, ill-conceived rescue efforts may have halted the freefall but have failed to grapple with more fundamental problems.... His prescience lends credibility to his trenchant analysis of the causes of the fiscal meltdown.--Michiko Kakutani "The New York Times"
Stiglitz is the world's leading scholarly expert on market failure, and this crisis vindicates his life's work. There have been other broad-spectrum books on the genesis and dynamics of the collapse, but Freefall is the most comprehensive to date, grounded in both theory and factual detail.... the definitive critique to date of how the Summers-Geithner strategy fails, both as economics and as politics.... The tone of this book is good-humored and public-minded.--Robert Kuttner "The American Prospect"
Stiglitz offers a powerful account of the financial meltdown and criticizes the Obama Administration for 'muddling through' rather than pushing aggressively for change.... An excellent overview from a Nobel prize-winning economist of what caused the crisis and what reforms should be enacted.... I can only hope Obama makes room for it on his nightstand.--James Pressley "BusinessWeek"
This is the best book so far on the financial crisis. Joseph Stiglitz . . . is knowledgeable about the historical background, immersed in the policy debate and a pioneer of the economic theories needed to understand the origins of the problems.-- "Financial Times"
As a Nobel Prize winner, member of the cabinet under former President Bill Clinton and chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, Joseph E. Stiglitz has some practical ideas on how to ease the pain of the Great Recession and maybe help prevent the next one.--Carl Hartman "Associated Press"
Asks some basic and provocative questions... 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.--Chuck Leddy "Boston Globe"
Mr. Stiglitz uses his experience teaching to give the lay reader a lucid account of how overleveraged banks, a shoddy mortgage industry, predatory lending and unregulated trading contributed to the meltdown, and how, in his opinion, ill-conceived rescue efforts may have halted the freefall but have failed to grapple with more fundamental problems.... His prescience lends credibility to his trenchant analysis of the causes of the fiscal meltdown.--Michiko Kakutani "The New York Times"
Stiglitz is the world's leading scholarly expert on market failure, and this crisis vindicates his life's work. There have been other broad-spectrum books on the genesis and dynamics of the collapse, but Freefall is the most comprehensive to date, grounded in both theory and factual detail.... the definitive critique to date of how the Summers-Geithner strategy fails, both as economics and as politics.... The tone of this book is good-humored and public-minded.--Robert Kuttner "The American Prospect"
Stiglitz offers a powerful account of the financial meltdown and criticizes the Obama Administration for 'muddling through' rather than pushing aggressively for change.... An excellent overview from a Nobel prize-winning economist of what caused the crisis and what reforms should be enacted.... I can only hope Obama makes room for it on his nightstand.--James Pressley "BusinessWeek"
This is the best book so far on the financial crisis. Joseph Stiglitz . . . is knowledgeable about the historical background, immersed in the policy debate and a pioneer of the economic theories needed to understand the origins of the problems.-- "Financial Times"
著者について
Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the best-selling author of People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent; Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Age of Trump; The Price of Inequality; and Freefall. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, chief economist of the World Bank, named by Time as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world, and now teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute.
登録情報
- 出版社 : W W Norton & Co Inc; Reprint版 (2010/10/4)
- 発売日 : 2010/10/4
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 443ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0393338959
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393338959
- 寸法 : 13.97 x 3.05 x 21.08 cm
- カスタマーレビュー:
著者について
著者をフォローして、新作のアップデートや改善されたおすすめを入手してください。
著者の本をもっと発見したり、よく似た著者を見つけたり、著者のブログを読んだりしましょう
他の国からのトップレビュー
Anu Bararia
5つ星のうち5.0
One of the finest books on markets
2019年4月30日にインドでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Joseph Stiglitz explains economic nitty-gritties for the layman. Complex terms, products, and dealings are simplified so well that the reader fully or near fully understands what happened in 2008 and the years before and after it. I have read several great books on the subject and this has been the best of all. Stiglitz discusses what went wrong and why and proposes solutions for the future. He also tells how likely those solutions are.
Amaz0n Cust0mer
5つ星のうち5.0
Five Stars
2016年2月9日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Perfect item
C. Collins
5つ星のうち5.0
A fascinating and broad reaching book that is full of brilliant insights and observations
2014年3月25日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This is an excellent book because it is very broad and comprehensive in its treatment of the recent 2007-2008 financial crisis but also because Stiglitz discusses the international consequences and the impact such a financial disaster should have on the field and study of economics. Stiglitz discusses the five primary underlying causes of the 2007-2008 financial crisis as bad lending practices, fees and incentives allowed mortgage originators and others to ignore the weaknesses of the underlying mortgages, the collateral was inflated in a housing bubble, the financial institutions were over-leveraged, and a wilderness of new derivatives gave the impression that risks were under control when in fact they had become unsustainable. Stiglitz does not look for villains or try to blame the crisis on moral or personal failures. Rather, he indicates and supports his contention that this was a systemic failure put into place by failure to correctly estimate the dangers of deregulation and to manage the incentive systems so that moral hazard was controlled rather than increased. Stiglitz is a structuralist who does not wallow in terms like ‘greed’ which is so evident in the popular press. In Stiglitz’s view, greed cannot be addressed but incentives and opportunities for greed can be. He takes a systemic structural view to how the crisis came about and how the crisis should be addressed. Stiglitz also is able to contextualize the crisis by pointing out data regarding how wages for the middle and lower-middle classes has stagnated since around 1981. More women entered the workforce which allowed families to maintain a stable standard of living but this required two wage earners for each household rather than one. As wages and standards of living stagnated for almost 25 years, home equity increased and equity withdrawals allowed middle income homes to maintain their standard of living.
Stiglitz is an extremely well organized writer. For example he outlines the content of a good mortgage product: low interest rates, low transaction fees, predictable payments, no hidden costs, and protection against value loss or job loss. Stiglitz points out that financial markets should serve a societal good, like hospitals or schools or utility companies. Financial markets should optimally allocate under used capital for production and innovation while managing risks and maintaining low reasonable transaction fees. Stiglitz thinks these financial markets failed. There should be cause for concern around the financial health of the United States when in 2007 41% of all corporate profit was generated by financial firms. Support for innovations weakened in a market environment in which innovations that circumvented regulation and oversight gathered the focus of the financial industry.
Stiglitz builds the case that efforts to blame the government for the 2007-2008 financial crises are insubstantial. Ironically the financial instruments used against the lower working classes eventually brought down the financial institutions themselves. Efforts to deregulate and weaken government oversight resulted in the United States owning the largest automobile and insurance companies in the world. Stiglitz points out those subsidies to financial corporations make the economic system less efficient and these subsidies when to financial firms which had gone to great lengths to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. Another irony pointed out by Stiglitz was that executive contracts at AIG were fully honored despite huge losses because the case was made that the government should not undermine contracts, whereas the union contracts at GM were undermined and had to be re-negotiated. One sentence from the book summarizes this: The 7 largest financial firms had losses of 100 billion dollars, were bailed out by the government with 175 billion dollars, and then gave the very executives that created the crisis 33 billion in bonuses.
This book spends a reasonable amount of time on the financial crisis but then analyzes the recovery and stimulus strategies. Stiglitz points out that a crisis does not destroy the underlying assets of an economy- physical plants, natural resources, the knowledge and skills of the workforce, technical knowledge and technologies are all still there. He points out the necessary ingredients for a successful stimulus package which would include: fast action and implementation, use of the multiplier effect to spread the impact of the stimulus, address long term infrastructural problems, invest in the future through research and innovation, should be fair to the middle class working families not just the affluent, should provide relief for short term hardships and should target job loss. Stiglitz makes the case that the stimulus package after the 2007-2008 crisis was too small and only spread out the pain of a slow recovery. Stiglitz is also critical of the lack-luster efforts to restructure financial markets by stopping casino type risks in derivative markets that result in little if any larger societal good. Further, Stiglitz spends considerable effort to explain multiple strategies that could have been undertaken for homeowners other than foreclosures, none of which were pursued. There was a clear tendency to blame the financially illiterate lower middle classes for the crisis when responsibility lay with the financial industry infrastructure and its perverse incentives. Mortgage originators and banks engaged in poor risk assessments and predatory lending practices – yet most government rescue efforts went to those who perpetuated the crisis.
Stiglitz points out that capitalism is an extremely robust economic model. It defeated feudalism during the middle ages. It can withstand high levels of inequality but eventually if private rewards are inverse to societal needs, then the entire system is in jeopardy.
Stiglitz has studied the impact of unequal knowledge in market transactions and finds that imperfect and asymmetric information challenges the concept of transparent equitable market transactions. Therefore the interest of the consumer should be a government responsibility.
Financial markets, in Stiglitz’s view, should benefit society as a whole by better allocation of capital to the most productive enterprise and to better manage risks. The financial crisis of 2007-2008 demonstrates that these markets failed. Their executives were rewarded with astronomical salaries and bonuses because they were supposed to know how to manage risks and they failed. Stiglitz points out that if these major financial firms were too big to fail, then they were too expensive to save and too big to manage. In fact, the failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated these firms were unable to calculate their own worth. Lehman Brothers was showing 26 billion in assets on their books when in fact they had over 200 billion in losses.
Stiglitz finds the argument that TARP was necessary to strengthen the firms that managed most of American’s pension funds. He points out those retired and retiring tax payers would benefit more if the TARP money had been used to strengthen Social Security.
I found the book to be fascinating and far reaching with sections on how stock options for executives dilute share owner equity, the use of off-shore money havens that help support terrorist activities, and the Glass-Stegall act of 1933 that built a firewall between commercial and investment banking. Like Kaynes, Galbraith, and Krugman, Stiglitz does not think markets are self correcting. He points out that the irony of the Reagan-Thatcher approach to less government regulation led to more government control.
Stiglitz is an extremely well organized writer. For example he outlines the content of a good mortgage product: low interest rates, low transaction fees, predictable payments, no hidden costs, and protection against value loss or job loss. Stiglitz points out that financial markets should serve a societal good, like hospitals or schools or utility companies. Financial markets should optimally allocate under used capital for production and innovation while managing risks and maintaining low reasonable transaction fees. Stiglitz thinks these financial markets failed. There should be cause for concern around the financial health of the United States when in 2007 41% of all corporate profit was generated by financial firms. Support for innovations weakened in a market environment in which innovations that circumvented regulation and oversight gathered the focus of the financial industry.
Stiglitz builds the case that efforts to blame the government for the 2007-2008 financial crises are insubstantial. Ironically the financial instruments used against the lower working classes eventually brought down the financial institutions themselves. Efforts to deregulate and weaken government oversight resulted in the United States owning the largest automobile and insurance companies in the world. Stiglitz points out those subsidies to financial corporations make the economic system less efficient and these subsidies when to financial firms which had gone to great lengths to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. Another irony pointed out by Stiglitz was that executive contracts at AIG were fully honored despite huge losses because the case was made that the government should not undermine contracts, whereas the union contracts at GM were undermined and had to be re-negotiated. One sentence from the book summarizes this: The 7 largest financial firms had losses of 100 billion dollars, were bailed out by the government with 175 billion dollars, and then gave the very executives that created the crisis 33 billion in bonuses.
This book spends a reasonable amount of time on the financial crisis but then analyzes the recovery and stimulus strategies. Stiglitz points out that a crisis does not destroy the underlying assets of an economy- physical plants, natural resources, the knowledge and skills of the workforce, technical knowledge and technologies are all still there. He points out the necessary ingredients for a successful stimulus package which would include: fast action and implementation, use of the multiplier effect to spread the impact of the stimulus, address long term infrastructural problems, invest in the future through research and innovation, should be fair to the middle class working families not just the affluent, should provide relief for short term hardships and should target job loss. Stiglitz makes the case that the stimulus package after the 2007-2008 crisis was too small and only spread out the pain of a slow recovery. Stiglitz is also critical of the lack-luster efforts to restructure financial markets by stopping casino type risks in derivative markets that result in little if any larger societal good. Further, Stiglitz spends considerable effort to explain multiple strategies that could have been undertaken for homeowners other than foreclosures, none of which were pursued. There was a clear tendency to blame the financially illiterate lower middle classes for the crisis when responsibility lay with the financial industry infrastructure and its perverse incentives. Mortgage originators and banks engaged in poor risk assessments and predatory lending practices – yet most government rescue efforts went to those who perpetuated the crisis.
Stiglitz points out that capitalism is an extremely robust economic model. It defeated feudalism during the middle ages. It can withstand high levels of inequality but eventually if private rewards are inverse to societal needs, then the entire system is in jeopardy.
Stiglitz has studied the impact of unequal knowledge in market transactions and finds that imperfect and asymmetric information challenges the concept of transparent equitable market transactions. Therefore the interest of the consumer should be a government responsibility.
Financial markets, in Stiglitz’s view, should benefit society as a whole by better allocation of capital to the most productive enterprise and to better manage risks. The financial crisis of 2007-2008 demonstrates that these markets failed. Their executives were rewarded with astronomical salaries and bonuses because they were supposed to know how to manage risks and they failed. Stiglitz points out that if these major financial firms were too big to fail, then they were too expensive to save and too big to manage. In fact, the failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated these firms were unable to calculate their own worth. Lehman Brothers was showing 26 billion in assets on their books when in fact they had over 200 billion in losses.
Stiglitz finds the argument that TARP was necessary to strengthen the firms that managed most of American’s pension funds. He points out those retired and retiring tax payers would benefit more if the TARP money had been used to strengthen Social Security.
I found the book to be fascinating and far reaching with sections on how stock options for executives dilute share owner equity, the use of off-shore money havens that help support terrorist activities, and the Glass-Stegall act of 1933 that built a firewall between commercial and investment banking. Like Kaynes, Galbraith, and Krugman, Stiglitz does not think markets are self correcting. He points out that the irony of the Reagan-Thatcher approach to less government regulation led to more government control.
Jose Luis Marrazzo
5つ星のうち5.0
Excelente!
2013年2月14日にスペインでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Altamente recomendado. He leído casi todos los de Stiglitz y este me ha encantado. Debería darse en las escuelas. No puede faltar en tu biblioteca
Dario
5つ星のうち5.0
Good
2012年10月2日にイタリアでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
A sharp analisys of actual crisis and its causes and consequences. Stiglitz is a great economist, and all pof his books are wrtitten very friendly even for one that's not good at economics stuffs.
Nice reading.
Nice reading.