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Category Archives: business/economics
Moneyball:
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis 2003 / 288 pages read by Scott Brick 10h 26m rating: 8.75 / nonfiction – baseball-tech What in the world is a nice girl like me doing reading a … Continue reading
Posted in business/economics, paper version, US
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Factory Man:
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy 2014 / 442 pages (Kindle) rating: 8.5 / nonfiction-business “Between 2001 and 2012, 63,300 American factories closed their doors and five million … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, business/economics, US, woman author
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson (Brit) 2011 / 432 pages Rating: 8.5 / Socio-Economic History Very interesting book – I’ve thought some of these things but I don’t think I’ve ever read them – not … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, British, business/economics, history
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Plutocrats:
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland 2012 – 336 pages read by Allyson Ryan – 5h 50m rating: 9 This non-fiction economics type book is definitely not an apology … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, business/economics, non-fiction, self-select, US, woman author
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
BOOMERANG: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis 2011 – 224 pgs audio read by Dylan Baker 7h 14m rating 8.5 Sometimes Lewis is reminds me of an economic Bill Bryson – he comes off as arrogant in … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, Audio, business/economics, non-fiction, self-select, US
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