Dr Jeff Cornwall

National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship offers their suggestions for your summer reading. Here are a couple of their favorites:
A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, by Daniel H. Pink. Riverhead Books, 2005.
This book takes a new look at the impacts of outsourcing, arguing that entrepreneurial growth will come from artists, designers and innovators.
The Past and Future of America’s Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Power Cycles of Growth, by Robert D. Atkinson. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2004.
“Atkinson argues that we are in the midst of a major technological shift that has only just begun. While economic change is all around us, our political systems and our policy ideas have not shifted in response. Atkinson recommends that policymakers embrace ‘growth economics’, a whole range of policies that nurture entrepreneurship and innovation.”
I haven’t read this one yet, but it is on my summer list. It is an $85 book, so you may want to wait for my review in a few weeks. Let’s hope his list of policy recommendations begins with less government involvement….
Check out NDE’s web site for all of their recommendations.