Smartonomics: Simple, Powerful Macroeconomic Tools for Success in an Uncertain World

Table of Contents:
Introduction A Country Is a Business Ants and Grasshoppers: Analyzing National Saving ‘Flation: It’s Like Cholesterol (Good and Bad) Money: What It Is, What It Does Booms and Busts: What Comes Next? Torrents of Capital The Gap Mining for Opportunities Epilogue Index

About the Author :
Shlomo Maital is Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies, Technion, and Professor (Emeritus) at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He was the academic director of TIM–Technion Institute of Management, Israel’s leading executive leadership development institute, and a pioneer in action-learning methods, from 1998 to 2009, working with over 200 high-tech companies and startups. He was summer visiting professor for 20 years at the MIT Sloan School of Management for Management of Technology MSc program, teaching over 1,000 research and development (R&D) engineers from 40 countries. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 12 books, including Cracking the Creativity Code (2014), Technion Nation (2012), Global Risk/Global Opportunity (SAGE, 2009), Innovation Management (SAGE, 2007; 2nd edition, 2012), and Executive Economics (1994), translated into seven languages. He was co-founder of SABE–Society for Advancement of Behavioral Economics.   D.V.R. Seshadri is Clinical Full Professor of Business at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. His areas of interest are business-to-business marketing, corporate entrepreneurship, and strategy. He holds a BTech (mechanical engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, an MS (engineering sciences) from University of California, San Diego, and a fellow title (doctorate) from IIM Ahmedabad, with specialization in production and quantitative methods. He had over 15 years of industrial experience prior to joining academics since 2000. He teaches in the various programs at IIM, Bangalore, in his areas of interest and at IIM, Ahmedabad, in the one-year executive MBA program. He also teaches in various executive development programs at IIM, Bangalore. He works closely with several companies, providing them training/consulting services in his areas of expertise. Over the last 10 years, he has developed a number of case studies and authored a number of research papers. He has co-authored three books: Innovation Management (2007) and Global Risk/Global Opportunity (2010) with Professor Shlomo Maital, and the Indian adaptation of the book Business Market Management (B2B): Understanding, Creating and Delivering Value (2010) with James Anderson, James Narus, and Das Narayandas.

Review :
Smartonomics prepares a manager who wants to succeed in this globalized world. It is a must-read book. Economics isn't everyone's cup of tea. But Smartonomics should certainly be. This book is a must read to understand how organizations can navigate their way in the uncertain times that we are all besieged by. “Smartonomics prepares a manager who wants to succeed in this globalized world. It is a must-read book.”  The authors of the book have successfully met their objective of narrating the usefulness of macroeconomic tools for managerial decision making in a simple and powerful manner. The book not only provides enough food for thought for managers for making informative decisions but also comes with a handy reckon for students and professionals with Economics background in an entertaining and informative way. It is a must read for aspiring business management and Macroeconomics students.