David Leonhardt in the New York Times wrote about his favorite economics book of the year in No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions. In what he calls “a very good year” for books on economics, he named Shannon Brownlee’s Overtreated tops, and his column tells why. It also presents a heavy-hitter list of his other contenders: Alan Greenspan’s The Age of Turbulence, Robert Reich’s Supercapitalism, Robert J. Frank’s While the Rich Get Richer, Does the Middle Class Get Poorer? and Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion.
Other lists, to update my earlier post on best business books of 2007:
Reuters compiled a list of business books that got buzz in 2007. Robb Sutton’s The No Asshole Rule gets props, along with Greenspan’s Age of Turbulence.
John Caddell’s Shoptalk Blog has his top five business books of the year (number one is Gary Hamel’s Future of Management; see my posts on that book starting with Seeing Into Gary Hamel’s ‘Future’).
Airport fixture Hudson Booksellers’ also has a list of Five Best Business Books. It includes links to excerpts of three of them, including The No Asshole Rule, Microtrends and Five Minds for The Future.
Monster.com pitched in with its choices for best books for your career .
The Economist’s Books of the year require a subscription, so I’ll list them:
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking By Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart, Ian Ayres
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres, William D. Cohan
The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant
The Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, Rakesh Khurana
The Billionaire Who Wasn’t: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune, Conor O’Clery
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
Chime in with your favorites, or thoughts on these lists.
