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Rational Exuberance: Silencing the Enemies of Growth and Why The Future is Better Than You Think is written by Michael Mandel, chief economist of the magazine Business Week. As he states so well, "People say they want growth, but they don't want what comes with it."
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The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers & Fathers Are Going Broke provides some new, fresh thinking on how fix this growing problem. Interestingly, the book moves beyond free market rhetoric and focuses on how government can make a positive difference. Review
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life is a must read for anyone interested in revitalizing cities. Mayor John Hickenlooper calls it the "most relevant economic development plan" for Denver.
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The New Geography is an insightful work on how the New Economy is changing America's sense of "place." Author Joel Kotkin does a good job of analyzing the changes in how we live and work. The book also looks at how the digital revolution will dramatically affect the country's politics.
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Free Agent Nation analyzes how "Power is devolving from the organization and to the individual." These new workers - freelancers, independent contractors, temps, self-employed Americans and home-based entrepreneurs are changing the face of the workplace - and America.
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Maestro: Greenspan's Fed & the American Boom is a biography of the Federal Reserve chairman. Woodward looks at how this economist and, maybe more importantly, master politician makes decisions. The book also focuses on Greenspan's relationship with former President Clinton.
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Building Wealth analyzes the New Economy and fingers knowledge as the new basis for growth, rather than the all-important capital of the Industrial Age. A provocative author, Thurow continues to make a very worthwhile contribution to the economic debate.
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree is key to understanding globalization, its public policy implications and the political ramifications. A New York Times columnist, Friedman argues that every day in the global economy is a 100-yard dash that you need to win each time.
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New Rules for a New Economy advocates lifelong learning and reemployment systems closely linked to the employers creating the jobs. The authors argue for multi-employer institutions to facilitate skill upgrading, company structural change and career ladders across firms.
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Market-Driven Healthcare offers innovative ideas to improve the delivery of these critical services. For example, Herzlinger proposes creation of a SEC-type commission to oversee the industry and provide useful, relevant quality and cost information to health care consumers.
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The Commanding Heights explains how government mushroomed relative to the market earlier this century and how that pattern reversed itself in our own times. The problem of market failure in the early 20th century has been largely replaced by the problem of government failure today.
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Peddling Prosperity is tough on academic popularizers who offer politicians overly simplistic solutions to complicated problems. Krugman also criticizes conservative economists who have been woefully short of understanding and solving current economic challenges.
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The Work of Nations contends that there is no such thing as a national economy anymore now that money, technology, factories and equipment move effortlessly across borders. Public policy must reflect these new realities if all Americans are to prosper in the global economy.
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