The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s

The Age of Diminished Expectations is a wide-ranging review of key economic events in the early/mid 1990s: the Mexican peso crisis, the Japanese asset price bubble, and threats to Social Security and Medicare. The topics of the original book are a bit dated; make sure to read the updated 1997 version, which includes new essays from 1994-1997 on a number of private market failures.