 | The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Second Edition by Warren E. Buffett
Buy new: $26.27 / Used from: $22.79 |
 | Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production by Taiichi Ohno
Buy new: $39.91 / Used from: $23.58 TPS as described by the father of "the abominable Ohno Production System"
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 | A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Gregory Clark
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $12.70 Fascinating quantitative economic history of the world from the medieval period through the Industrial Revolution. Worth reading just for the clever methods used to garner economic and demographic data from pre-industrial periods. Reaches a number of potent conclusions on the causes of the modern divergence between first- and third-world economies.
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 | The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.85 Understanding the interaction between firms, the environment, and time.
"Mother Nature is the ultimate entrepreneur." -k
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 | The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.27 Practical overview of monetary policy and basic macroeconomics for the layperson
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 | Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $4.99 Don't let your company grow up like this
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 | Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success by Masaaki Imai
Buy new: $99.06 / Used from: $0.60 |
 | Choice and Consequence by Thomas C. Schelling
Buy new: $23.80 / Used from: $7.99 One of my favorite "pop" economists. Most of his essays focus on the paradoxical relationship between choice and power.
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 | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte
Buy new: $22.02 / Used from: $17.60 |
 | The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power by Daniel Yergin
Buy used from: $2.20 |
 | The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $4.02 |
 | Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening by Steve Solomon
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $13.19 Endearing guide to competition, cooperation, symbiosis, and dynamic organizations. Crotchety author.
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 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.99 Popular exposition on the role of geography in historical and cultural evolution. Note conclusions are seriously flawed.
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