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This book was very interesting about economics, but it hardly mentioned Walmart and talked a lot more about Amazon.
good but uneven. it was less about Wal-Mart then about planning more broadly; it could have been shorter/tighter, but some phenomenal food for thought tossed around.
Didn’t finish this during my summer in California but intimately tied to the thoughts I was having there. Found the lack of footnotes frustrating and the historical characterizations of the USSR blasé, but a good starting place for thinking about economic planning.
This book is very entertaining and serves as an excellent choice for a book club or jumping-off point for discussion about planned economies. I greatly enjoyed reading about the real world existence of economic planning within the “black box” of capitalism and how corporations use data collection to decrease costs and control their employees.
However, this should not be taken as a serious economic treatise or a detailed argument for a planned economy. As stated in other reviews, the first half is outstanding but I find the book’s arguments begin to lose steam in the second half.
I was very disappointed to find this book had little to no references, no bibliography, and that the writers had done no original research.
However, this should not be taken as a serious economic treatise or a detailed argument for a planned economy. As stated in other reviews, the first half is outstanding but I find the book’s arguments begin to lose steam in the second half.
I was very disappointed to find this book had little to no references, no bibliography, and that the writers had done no original research.
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A quick read on planning in mega-corporations. I honestly wish it was a little more in-depth.