books by Lester C. Thurow

books by Lester C. Thurow

books:

Lester C. Thurow

Building Wealth: The New Rules for Individuals, Companies, and Nations in a Knowledge-Based Economy

Lester C. Thurow

Collins Business, 2000

How Rich Countries Get Rich
Overall, it is a fascinating read for anyone interested in economics, or how rich countries become rich. Lots of good facts which reflect on the competitive, and opportunistic capitalist paradigm we currently live in. 1) There has been significant change in the ...

The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow's World

Lester C. Thurow

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997

Capitalism is perfectly compatible with slavery, democracy not
Lester C. Thurow sees five forces that will dominate the world economy after the fall of the Berlin Wall with the creation of a Second World (the old communist one) between the First and the Third ones. forces 1. with the fall of the Berlin Wall, well-educated but ...

Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America

Lester C. Thurow

William Morrow & Co, 1992

looking smarter
With the fall of the dollar and the rise of China together with the bursting of America's housing bubble this book is looking more presentient.

Fortune Favors the Bold: What We Must Do to Build a New and Lasting Global Prosperity

Lester C. Thurow

Collins Business, 2005

Pragmatic and well thought
Lester Thurow has a penetrating mind. His ideas and arguments are intellectually pure and for that reason invaluable. He is a true CKO - Chief Knowledge Officer.

The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change

Lester C. Thurow

Basic Books, 2001

Eminently Readable, Hardly Revolutionary
This was one of the most readable non-fiction books I've ever come across. It's written in clear effective English and makes its point (mainly through repetition) very well. Thurow has one basic idea - that the American economy was paralysed in the 1970s because of ...

The Delta Project: Discovering New Sources of Profitability in a Networked Economy

Arnoldo C. Hax, Dean L. Wilde

Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Concise visualization of strategy in the netwoked world.
The result of several years of analysis and contribution from some of the world's leading CEOs (in addition to Hax and Wilde), the Delta Project very succinctly creates a visual representation for strategy development that is both descriptive and normative. It ...

Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse

David E. Brown

The MIT Press, 2003

Best book ever!
this was the best book i have ever read in my entire life! it really made me think about were all this stuff we use in our everyday life comes from. 3, no 4 thumbs up!

Head to Head : The Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America

Lester C. Thurow, 2003

How can one be wrong so much, and still be called an expert?
It is so sad how wrong someone can be proven over and over again and still, he/she is rewarded, called a genius and is allowed to teach our youth. Here is a quote from the author: "Can economic command significantly... accelerate the growth process? The remarkable ...