The Entrepreneurial Imperative: How America's Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World (and Change Your Life)11 reviews Carl J. Schramm Collins Business, 2006 This is an important topic! + Fresh insight to economic thinking + Everyone Needs Basic Business Skills + Mixing it up is a good thing             Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity20 reviews William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, ... Yale University Press, 2007 Very interesting book + Better View of Capitalism + The Beginners Economic Guide I thought that this book was an interesting take on how government policy can promote or hinder economic growth. I like how they combine together developed countries with undeveloped countries (although there is far more focus on the former). Most books on this subject focus exclusively on the one ...             Innovation and Entrepreneurship7 reviews Peter F. Drucker Collins Business, 2006 Classic + Decent read - not a page turner but has great concepts + Innovation and Entrepreneurship + Innovation Yes + Classic Entrepreneurship Book             Making Globalization Work31 reviews Joseph E. Stiglitz W. W. Norton, 2006 Much Needed Work! + Insightful + Fabulous Read + an important contribution to the debate + Prescription for the Discontents             Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery40 reviews David Warsh W. W. Norton, 2007 A story of Economic Discovery David Warsh has given us a non-technical survey of the theories of developmental economics from Adam Smith's great work by a similar name down to the present day. Warsh's sweeping narrative is an eminently readable tale (okay, readable as far as books about economics go) about the historical ...             The Entrepreneurial Society7 reviews David B. Audretsch Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Great book for college grads + The Entrepreneurial Society + Great book + Great Assessment on Where the Economy and Jobs are Heading + I loved reading this!!!             The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life62 reviews Richard Florida Basic Books, 2003 Great explanation how the World works and where it is heading. + Interesting topic but tough to read + Fascinating + The Economics of Creativity: Common-sense, yet novel             Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth David B. Audretsch, Max C. Keilbach, ... Oxford University Press, 2006 By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of knowledge has emerged as a crucial source for comparative advantage, but also why entrepreneurship ...             The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy3 reviews AnnaLee Saxenian Harvard University Press, 2006 The power of networks within and between hi-tech regions + Regional Advantage in a Global Economy + Excellent view of Silicon Valley's now and future in the Flat world! AnnaLee Saxenian has long been a follower of localized firm and professional networks in the hi-tech industry, highlighting their superiority over corporate hierarchies in her book "Regional Advantage." More recently, in "The New Argonauts," she has turned to ethnic professional networks in Silicon ...             In Defense of Globalization46 reviews Jagdish Bhagwati Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 A masterpiece + Comprehensive + A very good book and an important one indeed + In Defnse of Globilization + Cheers for trade and foreign investment             Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 1287 reviews AnnaLee Saxenian Harvard University Press, 1996 Excellent Structural Analysis + Very informative, great piece of work + AWSOME! + california cool + Very well written, easy to follow and insightful.             The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else144 reviews Hernando De Soto Basic Books, 2003 First Rate Analysis of Poverty and Development + Property Rights are key to ending poverty + A Marxist take + The Mystery of Capital -- It's Really No Mystery             The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism2 reviews William J. Baumol Princeton University Press, 2004 Packed with Knowledge! + Good Book on Necessity of Institutional Rules This book should certainly be on every businessperson's reading list, and every legislator's, and every student's. It is a lucid, well-organized and admirably logical presentation of the role of innovation in capitalism, and the role of capitalism in innovation. Author William J. Baumol ...             Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development (Initiative for Policy Dialogue Series C)6 reviews Joseph E. Stiglitz, Andrew Charlton Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 A radical new trade model + Enlighting book + very interesting - a great global economics intro + Must read for those interested in Fair Trade             The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century1167 reviews Thomas L. Friedman Picador, 2007 Friedman is a True Patriot! My father recommended this book to me and although it is so long that when people saw me reading it asked me if it was the Bible, it is the most important book that I've read in at least the last three years. Friedman displays unbelievable foresight, simplicity and understanding of the complex ...             Entrepreneurship, Geography, and American Economic Growth Zoltan J. Acs, Catherine Armington Cambridge University Press, 2006 The spillovers in knowledge among largely college-educated workers were among the key reasons for the impressive degree of economic growth and spread of entrepreneurship in the United States during the 1990s. Prior 'industrial policies' in the 1970s and 1980s did not advance growth because these were based on outmoded large manufacturing models. Zoltan Acs and Catherine Armington use a knowledge ...             Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity20 reviews William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, ... Yale University Press, 2007 Very interesting book + Better View of Capitalism + The Beginners Economic Guide I thought that this book was an interesting take on how government policy can promote or hinder economic growth. I like how they combine together developed countries with undeveloped countries (although there is far more focus on the former). Most books on this subject focus exclusively on the one ...             The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy3 reviews AnnaLee Saxenian Harvard University Press, 2006 The power of networks within and between hi-tech regions + Regional Advantage in a Global Economy + Excellent view of Silicon Valley's now and future in the Flat world! AnnaLee Saxenian has long been a follower of localized firm and professional networks in the hi-tech industry, highlighting their superiority over corporate hierarchies in her book "Regional Advantage." More recently, in "The New Argonauts," she has turned to ethnic professional networks in Silicon ...             Entrepreneurship, Geography, and American Economic Growth Zoltan J. Acs, Catherine Armington Cambridge University Press, 2006 The spillovers in knowledge among largely college-educated workers were among the key reasons for the impressive degree of economic growth and spread of entrepreneurship in the United States during the 1990s. Prior 'industrial policies' in the 1970s and 1980s did not advance growth because these were based on outmoded large manufacturing models. Zoltan Acs and Catherine Armington use a knowledge ...             Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth David B. Audretsch, Max C. Keilbach, ... Oxford University Press, 2006 By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of knowledge has emerged as a crucial source for comparative advantage, but also why entrepreneurship ...