The Best Books of 2008 - The Economist Edition

The Economist has chosen their books of the year in a variety of categories. You can go through the entire list here, but I've listed the choices in the Economics & Business category for quick review below.

• The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris, PublicAffairs
• Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State by Yasheng Huang, Cambridge University Press
• When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed El-Erian, McGraw Hill
• The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World by Amar Bhidé, Princeton University Press
• The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford, Random House
• Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World by Don Tapscott, McGraw-Hill
• Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything by Hal Sirkin, Jim Hemerling & Arindam Bhattacharya, Business Plus
• The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs by Charles D. Ellis, Penguin Press

Other notable choices that could've been placed in the business category are A Splendid Exchange by William J. Bernstein, which was chosen in the History category (and we chose as the best book of the year on globalization), and Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein's Nudge from the Science and Technology category.