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Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and LifeBook

by Alan B. Krueger

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Barry Ritholtz
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management; host of the Masters in Business podcast and author of How NOT to Invest.
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Alan B. Krueger, Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life: From the economist who revealed the secrets of the minimum wage comes this look at the economics of the music industry. Its disruptions by technology to economics of songwriting and concert tours, the music industry offers important financial lessons. Kreuger, an economic rock star himself (he was former chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers) left us far too soon.

His annual Bloomberg summer reading list, "10 Books for Beach or Poolside This Summer", each title with his own note on why it is worth reading; the post discloses that the Amazon links throw off a few dollars, which he donates to a literacy program.

2019-05-28·ritholtz.com ↗

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