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10 Mar 2010

Business Management in Economic Recessions

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Consider this: Back in December 1982, a business manager with 25 years of experience had worked through five recessions. Now fast forward to December 2007. The next generation of business leaders, those again with 25 …

12 Feb 2010

Economics Newsletter: February Issue Up

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The February 2010 issue of the Businomics (R) newsletter is available. At the bottom of that page is a link to sign up. It's complimentary to readers of this blog (free to everyone else). I …

8 Nov 2009

Another Good Economics Book: The Price of Everything

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I've been hard put to recommend an economics book aimed at the layman, because I don't read many of them myself. However, here's a wholehearted recommendation: Russ Roberts's The Price of Everything. The book is …

11 Sep 2009

Businomics Now on the Kindle: If You Need to Connect the Dots Between the Economy and Business Planning

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Businomics is now available for the Kindle from Amazon. This is the book that helps business leaders understand how to manage their companies in a changing economic environment. For you hard copy folks, more information …

6 Sep 2009

Controversy in Economic Theory: Keynes, Friedman and the Austrians

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My post about good economics books has led to a lively discussion about economic theory, Austrian economics, Keynes and Friedman over at Seeking Alpha. If you have an interest in the theoretical, check out the …

2 Sep 2009

Good Economics Books

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Prompted by Greg Mankiw's reading list, which I blogged about earlier this week, I did some serious browsing through two of the books. Nariman Behravesh's Spin-Free Economics is THE book I'll recommend when I'm asked …

31 Aug 2009

Good Readings in Economics

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Harvard Professor Greg Mankiw has posted his reading list of economics books for a freshman seminar. (Hat tip to Cafe Hayek.) Here it is: The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner Spin-Free Economics, by Nariman Behravesh …

9 Aug 2009

Free: The Economics of Zero Prices

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Chris Anderson's new book, Free, is actually subtitled, "The Future of a Radical Price," but he does a great job of explaining the economic concepts related to Free. And he does not sound like a …

8 Jun 2009

Groundswell: Social Networks for Business, but With a Broad Value to Business Leaders

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Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies is an unusual thing: a great business book. First, it contains valuable insights that are not obvious. Second, it has information for all parts of the …

19 Nov 2008

Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers

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Maybe the book will be disappointing, but this extract, published in the Guardian, is fascinating. It explains a lot of success. I like to think that it explains why I'm a pretty good economist and …

8 Sep 2008

The Encore Effect: Interview with Mark Sanborn

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The latest edition of the Businomics Audio Magazine has an interview with Mark Sanborn about his latest book, The Encore Effect. We talk about how ordinary people can give extraordinary performances, even in routine jobs. …

29 Aug 2008

Businomics Translated into Spanish !

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If you are more comfortable reading Spanish, this is good news for you. For more information on the Spanish edition, click here. It's priced at 18.5 euros, which makes the American edition look like a …