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25 Apr 2014

Consumers In Moderate Mode

  • By Bill Conerly
  • In Books, Business Strategy
Consumers are feeling better about current conditions and prospects for the future, but the improvement is gradual and subject to short-term swings. Business leaders reading the papers or watching TV might think that "consumers are tapped out." Neither the
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10 Feb 2012

The Economics of Pricing New Technology: A Gun Story

  • By Bill Conerly
  • In Books, Business Strategy, Economy
  • 1 comment
Read about it on my Forbes.com page: Pricing Technology Breakthroughs: The Glock Lesson.
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05 Sep 2011

Benjamin Franklin on Economic Disasterists

  • By Bill Conerly
  • In Books, Business Strategy, Economy
I was reading the Declaration of Independents, a really fun read, and they mentioned the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. I had not read it, but thought maybe I should be familar with it, so I went to the computer and
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28 Jun 2011

Economic Causes of the Decline of Rome

  • By Bill Conerly
  • In Books, Economy, Public Policy
Will Durant sums it up well: "The economic causes of Rome's decline have already been stated as prerequisite to the understanding of Diocletioan's reforms; they need only a reminding summary here. The precarious dependence upon provincial grains, the collapse of
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21 May 2011

The Future of Books and Libraries–and Education?

  • By Bill Conerly
  • In Books
Seth Godin has a stunningly useful commentary on books, libraries and librarians. "The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The
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06 Apr 2011

The Economics of Cities

  • By Bill Conerly
  • In Books, Business Strategy, Economy
Every business leader should understand the role that cities play in economic–and corporate–growth. A good way to get that understanding is Ed Glaeser's new book, The Triumph of Cities. Glaeser makes the critical point that cities are where people
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11 Mar 2011

Businomics Interview: Business Cycles and Management

  • By Bill Conerly
  • In Books, Business Strategy
  • 1 comment
Here’s a video of me discussing the best book on economics and management.  
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31 Dec 2010

Smart Pricing: New Ideas on an Old Problem

  • By Bill Conerly
  • In Books, Business Strategy
Very few of us do a good job setting prices. I have seen several companies, large and small, set prices, and it's not nearly as rational and analytic as it should be. And when it is rational and analytic, the
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27 Dec 2010

Many Prices for One Product

  • By Bill Conerly
  • In Books, Business Strategy, Economy
  • 2 comments
The Christmas tree included a great book that got me thinking about the economics of pricing. No, my family did not bless me with an economics text. However, my son Peter gave me a delightful book, The Man Who Loved
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22 Aug 2010

Good Book on Manufacturing Management: The Goal

  • By Bill Conerly
  • In Books, Business Strategy
  • 1 comment
The lessons of Eliyahu Goldratt's The Goal are broader than manufacturing management, but that's the context for the lessons. The book is fairly old, first published in 1984, and I'm not sure how I missed it. It's a very
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