APM Marketplace: Best Business Books 2010

cover illustration of Harper's Weekly, 12/13/13 by James Montgomery Flagg

The year has ended and the votes are in. On Marketplace.com by American Public Media, these respected reader/writers identified their favorite business books of 2010

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  • FELIX SALMON, blogger at Reuters. Favorite book: The Big Short (our review) by Michael Lewis.
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    The most compellingly readable of all of the finance books. “This is a man who really knows how to write in a way that most journalists just simply don’t.” Lewis, author of best sellers Liar’s Poker and Moneyball, provides insights into the housing bubble and 2008 market crash.
  • JUSTIN FOX, editorial director of the Harvard Business Review Group. Favorite book: Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer–and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson.
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    This book is a “well-done, well-researched… look at the political forces over the past 35 years that have led to more economic inequality in the United States.”
  • PADMASREE WARRIOR, chief technology officer for Cisco.Favorite book: Delivering Happiness (our review) by Tony Hsieh.
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    “The CEO of Zappos Tony Hsieh… talks about culture in an organization being the primary driver for business success. It’s very easy to read … like reading a story.”
  • TYLER COWEN, Economics professor George Mason University. Favorite book: Adam Smith: an enlightened life by Nicholas Phillipson.
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    This biography shows “that Smith is still the greatest economist of all time, wise about human nature, and understanding about the power of capitalism.”
  • HEIDI MOORE, contributor to New York Times’ DealBook blog. Favorite book: Crash of the Titans by Greg Farrell.
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    “Every page has some new, eye-popping anecdote that shows the titans of the financial world at their absolute worst and sometimes even at their best. I would highly recommend it to anybody who wants to understand how these deals can go wrong in a very human way.”

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One Response to “APM Marketplace: Best Business Books 2010”

  1. Mike Klingler Says:

    I just started FELIX SALMON’s The Big Short .. it looks very promising!

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