The Economist's "Pick of the Pile" - 2

Here is the second section of the Economist’s best of 2008.

Economics and Business

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash. By Charles R. Morris. PublicAffairs; 224 pages; $22.95 and ₤13.99.

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State. By Yasheng Huang. Cambridge University Press; 366 pages; $30 and ₤15.99.

When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change. By Mohamed El-Erian. McGraw-Hill; 304 pages; $27.95 and ₤15.99.

The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World. By Amar Bhide. Princeton University Press; 520 pages; $35 and ₤19.95.

The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World. By Tim Harford. Random House; 272 pages; $25. Little, Brown; ₤18.95.

Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World. By Don Tapscott. McGraw-Hill; 384 pages; $27.95 and ₤15.99.

Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything. By Hal Sirkin, Jim Hemerling and Arindam Bhattacharya. Business Plus; 304 pages; $26.99 and ₤18.99.

The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs. By Charles D. Ellis. Penguin Press; 752 pages; $37.95. Allen Lane; ₤25.

Should Your People Come Before Your Customers?

I thought this was an interesting column from Rob Preston, VP and Editor in Chief of Information Week.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210604009