Recommended Reading List for Business & Economics Department: 2019/20, Lecture notes of Control Systems

Download Recommended Reading List for Business & Economics Department: 2019/20 and more Lecture notes Control Systems in PDF only on Docsity! Recommended Reading List for the Business & Economics Department 2019/20 1.​ ​23 things they don’t tell you about capitalism​ (Ha-Joon Chang) - challenges conventional thinking 2.​ ​A Whole New Mind ​(Daniel H Pink) 3.​ ​Age of Discovery: Navigating the risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance​ (Goldin,and Kutarna) 4.​ ​Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built​ (Duncan Clark) - the rise of the Chinese corporate giant 5.​ ​Art of Strategy ​(Dixitt and Nalebuff)​ - ​especially good for game theory examples and analysis 6.​ ​Capitalism, 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know (​J Portes) - excellent reference material 7.​ ​Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21​st​ Century…. ​(Kate Raworth​) 8.​ ​Drunkard’s Walk ​(Leonard Mlodinow​) - ​a history of Maths with relevant applications 9.​ ​Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal ​(Eric Schlosser) 10. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything​ (Levitt and Dubner) 11. GDP:​ ​A Brief but Affectionate​ ​History​ (Diane Coyle) - the GDP/ well-being debate 12. If I could tell you just one thing….Most valuable Advice from Remarkable People ​(Richard Reed) 13. Inequality ​(AB Atkinson) one of the most defining economic/political issues of the age 14. Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them, and They Shape Us (Sharman and Fisherman) 15. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics ​(Richard Thaler) 16. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to fight Global Poverty​ (Banerjee and Duflo) - development economics 17. Positive Linking: Networks and Nudges​ (Paul Ormerod)​ - ​an introduction to network economics