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I didn’t really plan it this way. But as I look at the list of the best books I read this year, I see how a number of them touch on economics and business. That’s fitting, in a year when Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century put a big spotlight on inequality. In addition, with the Asian economies so much in the news, I wanted to read How Asia Works, which promised to explain why some of the continent’s countries grew so fast while others languished. And I got to brush up on an old favorite, the best business book I’ve ever read. 我其实没想到要写这个。但是当我看了一下今年我读过的好书书单，我了解到它们是如何涉及经济和商业内容的。很合适吧，在托马斯·皮克迪的《21世纪的资本》聚焦于不平等问题的这一年给出这个书单。而且，资讯里充斥着那么多亚洲经济的内容，我想读一读《亚洲大趋势》，这本书承诺能解答为何一些大陆国家在其他国家失去活力的时候可以发展的如此迅速。而且我也想温习一下我读过的最棒的财经图书。 Here are short reviews of those three, plus two other terrific books I read this year. Not all of these came out in 2017—sometimes I fall behind and don’t get to a book until well after it’s been published. Other times I’m able to get ahead of the game: The Rosie Effect won’t be published in the United States until December 31, but the author was nice enough to send Melinda and me advance copies before he stopped by the office in September. | 
