Staff Picks: Business & Economics

Every month, staff at our Downtown branch read books in a specific fiction genre or nonfiction subject, to familiarize themselves with titles they might not have discovered otherwise. Last month's subject was Business & Economics. Here's what everyone read and how they rated it:


The Little Book of Economics:  how economics works in the real world
By Greg Ip (5 stars)

The Why Axis:  hidden motives and the undiscovered economics of everyday life
Uri Gneezy (3 stars)

The Economist Magazine  (5 stars)

Young Money:  inside the hidden world of Wall Street’s post-crash recruits
By Kevin Roose (3 ½ stars)

Empty Mansions:  the mysterious life of Hugette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
By Bill Dedman (4 stars)

Naked Economics:  undressing the dismal science
By Charles J. Wheelan (3 stars)

Punching Out:  one year in a closing auto plant
By Paul Clemens (3 stars)

Detroit:  an American autopsy
By Charlie LeDuff (2 stars)

Windfall:  the booming business of global warming
By Funk McKenzie (5 stars)