Some excellent books published during the year fell in the grey area where business and management overlap with economics.

ECONOMIST: Business books

Home economics and business management have Lillian Gilbreth in common, and a lot more besides.

NEWYORKER: Not So Fast

About the business world, yes, in the larger sense, but often trying to look at that business world from the point of view of economics rather than, say, accounting or business management.

FORBES: It's All Obvious or Trivial Except......

Unlike change management, which is grounded in business and economics, OD relies primarily on the application of behavioral sciences, such as psychology, sociology, and cultural anthropology, to facilitate human development for social and organizational gain.

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The brand is run by Alan Eckstein and creative director Timo Weiland, who grew up between Florida and New York then majored in economics, Spanish literature and business management at Vanderbilt University before deciding he needed to go into fashion.

FORBES: Timo Weiland: Look Here For Shearling, Tartan and Fur

Even without the huge falls in asset prices, reckons David Hunt, a consultant at McKinsey, the fundamental economics of the asset-management business have deteriorated.

ECONOMIST: Fund management

Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the HEC School of Management in Paris, was founded in 2001.

WSJ: An Executive M.B.A. With a Global Flavor

One might have thought that the business schools and economics departments would have been more prominent in exposing these disastrous consequences of traditional management.

FORBES: Connect