GeoCapital Economics

Readings & Mind Set

 

 

Recommended Readings for Knowledge, Strategy and Mind Set, and Real-World Cognition
 

 
  • Brzezinski, Zbigniew: Global Domination or Global Leadership. New York 2005.
  • Huntington, Samuel P.: The Clash of Civilzations and the Remarking of World Order. New York 1997.
  • Bernstein, Peter L.: Against the Gods. The Remarkable Story of Risk. New York 1998.
  • McRae, Hamish: The World in 2020. Power, Culture and Prosperity: A Vision of the Future. London 1995.
  • Landes, David: The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. London 1999.
  • Krugmann, Paul: Development, Geography and Economic Theory. MIT 1999.
  • Krugmann, Paul R.: Geography and Trade, MIT Press 1997.
  • Amstutz, Mark R.: International Conflict and Cooperation. An Introduction to World Politics. 1995.
  • Henderson, Convey W.: International Relations.  Conflict and Cooperation at the Turn of the 21st Century, 1998.
  • Friedman, Thomas L.: Understanding Globalization - The Lexus and the Olive Tree. New York 2000.
  • Kotler, Philip: The Marketing of Nations - A Strategic Approach to Building National Wealth. New York 1997.
  • Waring, Alan and A. Ian Glendon: Managing Risk, London / Boston 1998.
  • Dudik, Evan M.: Strategic Renaissance, New York 2000.
  • Clark, Ephraim and Bernard Marois: Managing Risk in International Business - Techniques & Applications. London 1996.
  • Chicken, John C.: Risk Handbook. London 1996.
  • Mazarr, Michael J.: Global Trends 2005. 1999.
  • Hudason, Robert, Alan Colley and Mark Largan: Treasury Management, 2002.
  • Duncasn, Richard: The Dollar Crisis - Causes, Consequences and Cures. 2003.
  • Ohmae, Kenichi: The End of the Nation State, London 1995.
  • Porter, Michael E.: The Competitive Advantage of Nations, New York 1990
  • Heynen, J. Michael: SPIRIT CODES - Zur Emanzipation des Selbst. Brussels, January 2012.

 

 

 

A Literacy of  the Imagination

 

Here's a shortlist of books that have greatly influenced Gunther Sonnenfeld' s life and work:

 

  • "The Greek Concept of Justice" by Eric A. Havelock
  • "The Critical Reader, Thinker and Writer" by W. Ross Winterowd and Geoffrey R. Winterowd
  • "Revolution in Poetic Language" by Julia Kristeva
  • "A Pattern Language" by Murray Silverstein
  • "Hadji Murad" by Leo Tolstoy
  • "The Nature of Mind" by David M. Rosenthal
  • "Consciousness Explained" by Daniel C. Dennett
  • "Boundaries and Relationships - Knowing, Protecting & Enjoying the Self" by Charles L. Whitfield
  • "Handbook of Research and Techniques For Studying Virtual Communities: Paradigms and Phenomena" by Kai Pata
  • "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • "Entrepreneurial Transitions" by Roy F. Cammarano
  • "Collective Intelligence" by Pierre Levy
  • "The Systems Approach" by C. West Churchman
  • "Handbook for the New Paradigm" by George Green
  • "The Masks of God - Creative Mythology" by Joseph Campbell
  • "The Merchant Bankers" by Joseph Wechsberg
  • "The Quark and the Jaguar" by Murray Gell-Mann
  • "Matter and Consciousness" by Paul M. Churchland
  • "The History of Forgetting" Norman S. Klein
  • "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles MacKay
  • "Induced Investment and Business Cycles" by Hyman P. Minsky
  • "Cultures and Organizations - Software of the Mind" by Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede and Michael Minkov
  • "First, Break All the Rules" by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
  • "From Cell to Clone" by Margery and Howard Facklam
  • "More Than Good Intentions" by Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel
  • "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz
  • "Desolation Angels" by Jack Kerouac
  • "Philosophy of Physics" by Lawrence Sklar
  • "The Pursuit of WOW!" by Tom Peters
  • "Innovation at the Speed of Laughter" by John Sweeney
  • "The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
  • "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" by Immanuel Kant
  • "Experience and Judgment" by Edmund Husserl
  • "The Economics of Welfare" by Arthur Cecil Pigou
  • "The Passions and the Interests" by Albert Hirschman
  • "Timequake" by Kurt Vonnegut
  • "Amerika" by Franz Kafka
  • Profile Books
  • Influencing Tomorrow by Douglas Alexander & Dr Ian Kearns (Editors)