Economic Scene: No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions
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âOvertreated,â by Shannon Brownlee is the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve â but is so often misunderstood.
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Practice makes perfect. Last year, the judges of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) book award were feeling their way as they narrowed a list of 17 contenders down to a shortlist of six. This year, the process was quicker and the seven-strong panel - unchanged since the session last November that selected Thomas Friedman's paean to globalisation, The World is Flat, as the inaugural winner of the &pound;30,000 ($56,000) prize - came to it with a clearer sense of the kind of book that deserves to take the laurels next month.
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âOvertreated,â by Shannon Brownlee, is the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve â but is so often misunderstood.
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The fundamentals are there. Just wait for the business growth to restart.
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Business publishers have turned out a steady torrent of books about outsmarting, out-hustling, and outmaneuvering -- not to mention smashing, trouncing, and pulverizing -- the competition.
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Unearthing values in the post-bubble wreckage.
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The world of commerce crackled with possibility in the 1990s as computing transformed, and the Internet disrupted, business as usual. When the music stopped, the dot-com carnival gave way to a more sober period where entrepreneurial fervor abated and traditional business models seemed to reassert themselves.
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Looking to beat the market this year and beyond? We have some ideas.
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Can you beat the market? Here's the math you need to find out, explained in plain English.
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How to find the best choices in a crowded market.
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On the Wealth of Nations Books That Changed the World by P.J. O&#146;Rourke Atlantic Monthly Press 256 pages, $21.95.
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You can find hidden value in struggling businesses.
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The famed textbook hawker returns to the Nasdaq.
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Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers By Gene Epstein John Wiley & Sons, 246 pages, $24.95.
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Economics has got its groove back. Who are the economists doing influential work on crucial questions facing modern society today?
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In one area at least, the new economy is  delivering on its promise.
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Todayâs knowledge economy is stuck with the equivalent of an abacus for measuring the actual financial value of corporate assets and liabilities.