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Blog / News & Opinion
Galbraith v. Friedman
By Porchlight
Barry Gewen of Paper Cuts (NYT book blog) had a very interesting post on the intellectual stock of John Kenneth Galbraith versus that of Milton Friedman on Wednesday. These two heavyweights of 20th century economics largely built the intellectual framework we hang our current discussions of macroeconomics on. Mr.
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Blog / News & Opinion
An Independent Bookseller Picks Five
By Porchlight
R. J. Julia Booksellers Founder Roxanne J.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Matt Mason Named Year's Best Pirate
By Porchlight
BusinessWeek's Best and Worst of Everything 2008 has named Pirate's Dilemma author Matt Mason the best pirate of 2008, writing: Journalist Matt Mason's totemic book explores the issues faced by struggling musicians and chief executive officers alike. In a culture of pervasive sampling and remixing, how are notions of ownership and copyright evolving? Pirates, Mason argues persuasively, break old rules to establish new innovations.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Holiday Book Recommendations From Our Staff
Book Review by Porchlight
Still doing some last minute shopping, scrambling to find the right gift for that special (or even not-so-special) someone? The staff of 8cr has your back. Here are some recommendations, without the usual business book filter, from the brilliant minds sitting around me here in the nerve center of 800-CEO-READ.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Feeling Down?
By Porchlight
Let Charlie Rose and Competitive Advantage author Michael Porter cheer you up some. As Charlie notes at the beginning of the interview, The Times of London has called Porter the "Most important business thinker in the world. " Also mentioned in the interview is his feature article for BusinessWeek last month, Why America Needs an Economic Strategy.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
The Best Books of 2008 - Business Pundit Edition
By Porchlight
Business Pundit knows business books well, and has chosen the 10 from 2008 they think are the best. I think they have the right idea in describing the popular feelings of the year: 2008 came in two parts. Part I, which ran through Bear Stearns, carried the vestiges of prior years, when we thought we could get away with everything, never anticipating that in actuality, everything would get away from us.
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Blog / News & Opinion
InBubbleWrap - McDonald's: Behind the Arches
By Porchlight
For all of you not in the know, we continue to give away books featured in Jack and Todd's 100 Best Business Books of All Time over on InBubbleWrap. The idea is to help you build up a library of the books they've chosen for The 100 Best by the time it's released. This week we are offering McDonald's: Behind the Arches.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Best Books OF ALL TIME! - The Independent Edition
By Porchlight
Jack and Todd will soon have the definitive list of the best business books of all time published, but, in the meantime, here is what The Independent's Sean O'Grady has to say on the matter. He chooses from both "timeless classics [and] the latest crop of credit crunch chronicles. " It's an interesting list because it's from a newspaper that leans to the left side of the British political spectrum, providing a perspective from the side of the aisle that doesn't speak up on business books as often.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Best Books of 2008 - The Economist Edition
By Porchlight
The Economist has chosen their books of the year in a variety of categories. You can go through the entire list here, but I've listed the choices in the Economics & Business category for quick review below. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2008 800-CEO-READ Book Award Winners Announced
By Porchlight
Today is the day many have been waiting for, as we announced the winners for this year's Book Awards. Click here to view the winners in 13 categories, as well as the overall Best Business Book of the Year. The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards site can be found at www.
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