Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy - Dean Baker - Bog

Argues not only that competent economists should have recognized the developing housing bubble, but also that policy makers and the media cheerfully neglected those economists who did predict danger. Dean Baker doesn't engage in 20-20 hindsight, but documents the fundamental policy changes since 1980 that destabilized the economy and eroded the broad prosperity of the post-war period.