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Rockonomics
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1. Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach by Hal R Varian

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	"The most important crash course micro economics text book ever written. Essential."

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2. All You Need To Know About The Music Business: seventh edition by Donald S Passman

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	"The music business explained in easy to understand and hard to forget NYC taxi driver speak. Look out for the edition with a UK section."

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3. Music: The Business: The Essential Guide to the Law and the Deals by Ann Harrison

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	"A vital contribution to UK music as it is one of the very few books which specifically focus on UK law and organisations. This timely 5th edition covers the complexity of law with street level advice"

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4. Music, Money and Success - The Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Music Business (Music, Money & Success: The Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Music Business) by Jeffrey Brabec

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	"I'll lay it down like this. What Todd and Jeff Brabec don't know about the music licensing simply isnt worth knowing."

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5. Rockonomics: The Money Behind the Music by Marc Eliot

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	"Listen, there are copious ammounts of books about how corrupt the music biz was/is/continues to be - this is the best one!"

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6. How to Fix Copyright by William Patry

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	"Patry succeeds in making a complex subject entertaining. More about solutions than pointing towards problems."

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7. The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business by Thomas H. Davenport

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	"Important for raising and framing the question about the attention economy. Not a great book, but a great topic that needs more debtate."

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8. Playbooks and Checkbooks: An Introduction to the Economics of Modern Sports by Stefan Szymanski

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	"Soccernomics - the relevance of this book to collective licensing will surprise you. Very quick read, and very well written. The focus here is on competitive balance in wage bargaining for baseball"

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9. Understanding Media (Routledge Classics) by Marshall McLuhan

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	"Written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet, McLuhan's insights help you rethinking where the future has taken us"

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10. Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas C Schelling

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	"Twenty-five years old, and still head and shoulders above The Tipping Point and a dozen other economics books you see in airport book stores."

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11. The Longer Long Tail: How Endless Choice is Creating Unlimited Demand by Chris Anderson

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	"A fantastic, but flawed, book about the supply curve - what happens when millions of goods can finally get to market"

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12. Statistical Forecasting for Inventory Control by Robert Goodell Brown

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	"A heavy going but vital book about the demand curve - once your on the digital shelf, who wants you? The log normal distribution explained."

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13. Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars (0) by William Patry

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	"Heavyweight copyright lawyer on the economics of copyright and need for reform - very well presented arguments that engage your mind."

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14. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking by Barbara Minto

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	"A bible for many, unheard of to many others � The Pyramid Principle offers a pleasant introduction to logic and how it applies to what you read as well as write. For Rockonomists, this is critical as much of the economic analysis in the music business is badly explained and woefully interpreted. Absorbing Minto can help fix that."

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15. Kill Your Friends by John Niven

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	"Read from January to May, then put it down - those five months will teach you a lot about A&R."

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16. Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives by Michael Heller

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	"Long overdue introduction to the anti-commons, when too much fragmentation leads to underuse, and very relevant for music licensing today."

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17. Ticket Masters by Josh Baron Dean Budnick

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	"There is more, way more, to the booking fee than first meets the eye."

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18. Viral Loop: The Power of Pass-it-on by Adam Penenberg

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	"Light on analysis and technical concepts but a easy read skimming the stones of this important topic which needs much more research."

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19. Catalyst Code: The Strategies Behind the World's Most Dynamic Companies by David Evans

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	"The authors have produced far better academic papers - so treat as two sided market theory for beginiers. Not well written, but not much else out there."

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20. Priceless: The Hidden Psychology of Value by William Poundstone

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	"The psychology of value, and how the pricing of products affects how we think of them."

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21. Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Digitial Technologies (Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Digital) by Steve Gordon

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	"A little clumsy in its layout, but Gordon flags up some excellent business models that make you see the music industry differently."

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22. Howling At The Moon: The True Story of the Mad Genius of the Music World by Walter Yetnikoff

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	"A rise and fall story of a music industry titan which takes you on the ride, with an unexpected ending. The fact this story did happen leaves you perplexed."

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23. Free Ride: How the Internet is Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back by Robert Levine

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	"A book that captures and collates numerous (previous) blogs, rants and debates about content and connectivity. Time will tell as regards its shelf life. The author's time at Billboard gives it weight."

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24. The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz

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	"Ahead of its time, and often overlooked - check his TED lecture first"

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25. Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age by Steve Knopper

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	"It works because it�s written by a top quality journalist. Few have been able to tell this story with so much page turning pace � polishable in a long haul flight."

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Rockonomics: The Money Behind the Music

The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business

Statistical Forecasting for Inventory Control

Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

Catalyst Code: The Strategies Behind the World's Most Dynamic Companies

Free Ride: How the Internet is Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back

Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age

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Last updated: 09/08/2012

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