”Books that Drive the Debate” is a list of books by business leaders and policy experts that help shape the debate on issues important to the business community.  Each year we select books that advance our agenda and thought provoking books that challenge our thinking.  These selections are meant to spur debate and advance our thinking about issues of significance. 

In 2008, NCF launched a new program called the Authors’ Series in conjunction with the Books That Drive the Debate.  Authors from the year’s book selections were invited to participate in an open forum to discuss their book and related topics.  These discussions took shape in the form of webinars, conference calls, and on-site events at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce headquarters in Washington, D.C.  For questions regarding this series, please contact Ben Askin at (202) 463-5500 or at ncfevents@uschamber.com.

• Books That Drive the Debate 2009
• Books That Drive the Debate 2008
• Books That Drive the Debate 2007
• Books That Drive the Debate 2006
• Classic Books That Drive the Debate

 

A sample from the 2009 list includes:

The World is Curved: Hidden Dangers in the Global Economy by David Smick 

The Numerati by Stephen Baker

The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care by Clayton M. Christensen

  

A sample from the 2008 list includes:       

Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders by Jason L. Riley

Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris

Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work by Robert J. Shapiro

  

A sample of the 2007 list includes: 

Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting it Right by Michele Wucker

The Improving State of the World: Why We’re Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet by Indur M. Goklany

Income and Wealth by Alan Reynolds

 

A sample of the 2006 list includes: 

Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy by Moises Naim

The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy by Peter Huber and Mark Mills

The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle: What We’ve Learned; How to Fix It  by Henry N. Butler

 

Classic Books That Drive the Debate includes:

• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay, LLD

 

For questions about this program, please contact us at  (202) 463-5500 or at ncfevents@uschamber.com.