Freakonomics
There is another great new word, Freakonomics. This book is inspring and fun, it's a new look at conventional wisdom. And the word Freakonomics, though probably a fad word, essentially groups together this new area of thought stemming from the Internet era, and general enlightenment, and the complete rejection of many conventional "truths" that are not so true.

Way7 Intonomics,
The Last Word on
Internet Economics
Complex Internet Achitecture systems are explained from the groud up, and how they affect all of our lives in very intimate ways. Shows how monopolies, oligopolies and free marketplaces are never evil unto themselves due to their being, but rather, how incompetent government, supported by incompetent business, does not know how to manage or identify marketplaces according to their own natural state. Tremendous paradigm shifts will change behaviors and emarketplaces across the economny. Included are the US airlines, auto industry, healthcare, and residential real estate markets are undergoing great changes now. Way7 explains how the economy will settle after all the turmoil.

The Informant

But in this important socioeconomic study, a follow-up to 1999’s The Lexus and the Olive Tree, the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner argues persuasively that globalization, with all its attendant geopolitical effects, is the single most significant trend of our day. To paraphrase the ancient Chinese curse, we are indeed living in interesting -- and historic -- times!

The convergence of technology and events has allowed India, China, and many other countries to become part of the global supply chain, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations. With his inimitable ability to translate foreign policy and economic issues, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies this brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes.

The Informant
This book tells one story of how government, wives, husbands, business partners, and incorrect and misguided economic core values, can lead many organizations and people toward misery, instead of prosperity.

Where oligopoly price fixing is needed through government and business association regulation to achieve economic balance and to create a healthy industry for both consumers and oligopoly manufacturers, incorrect popular conventional ethics misguides society into thinking that:

• regulation through price fixing is evil, when in fact, it is needed for some oligopolies, and
• that being disloyal to your closest business companions is good because telling the truth to government is better, and
• that arresting as many people as possible for whatever reason is a healthy directive for law enforcement.

The book can be used as an excellent case study showing how misguided ethics and behaviors in the relationship between husband and wife is related to who goes to jail, and how business and government is often deterimentally effected by misguided and incorrect economic philosophy.

The Informational City
The great prophetic conclusion published in 1989:

"However if innovative social projects, represented and implemented by renewed local governments, are able to master the formidable forces unleashed by the revolution in information technologies, then a new socio-spatial structure could emerge made up of a network of local communes controlling and shaping a network of productive flows. Maybe then our historic time and our social space would converge towards the reintegration of knowledge and meaning into a new Informational City.