February 9, 2008
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If you were first introduced to globalization via Tom Friedman‘s The World Is Flat, you may be interested to learn more about this wave of economics. Many point to the recent book by Joseph Stiglitz called Making Globalization Work. This … Continue reading
January 24, 2008
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You’ve read Freakonomics…right? One of the most popular chapters Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms? is about Sudhir Venkatesh, a grad student at the University of Chicago who studied a crack cocaine gang The Black Kings in … Continue reading
January 20, 2008
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David Weinberger’s book Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is really amazing. It follows on the footsteps of Tom Friedman’s The World Is Flat and Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail. This book presents an interesting look at the … Continue reading
December 27, 2007
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The holiday is a perfect time to catch up on reading and must admit Beautiful Evidence from Edward Tufte is a very refreshing look at aspects of visual evidence we simply overlook in everyday life. I found chapter 6 is … Continue reading
December 10, 2007
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Well I’m not sure what took so long to read Steven Levitt‘s Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. It was enjoyable, fun and interesting to read the hidden side of everything. So I finally pushed it … Continue reading
November 21, 2007
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Suzanne Berger and MIT’s Industrial Performance Center wrote a book after concluding a five year study of the new global economy and lessons learned from 500 companies: How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it … Continue reading
November 20, 2007
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You cannot shake a stick today without hitting an article about Amazon’s new Kindle wireless reading device. 10 ounces and able to ‘carry’ 200 books. A price tag of $400.00 + the cost of content? Well if it drives people … Continue reading
October 10, 2007
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Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz is a good companion to Tom Friedman’s The World Is Flat regarding globalization. At times I felt the chapters could have been written … Continue reading
October 6, 2007
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Matt Spaamen recommended Glenn Reynolds’ An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths. Glenn, professor of law at the University of Tennessee is the former MSNBC blogger known … Continue reading
September 18, 2007
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China has been taking quite a justified beating in the global press for their product safety crisis. From toys to medicine China is stumbling over its global reputation. Today’s article in the New York Times proves Europe has learned from … Continue reading