Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), BooksReleased in paperback in December, Charles Fishman's The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works -- and How it's Transforming the American Economy should be at the top of the reading list for anyone wishing to understand Wal-Mart, globalization, and the American economy. Anyone serious about investing should understand these are three things, so, if you're reading this review, you'll want to get this book.The wonderful thing about this book is that almost all of the other books about Wal-Mart have had agendas behind them. The Wal Mart Revolution: How Big Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy, published by the American Enterprise Institute, is a flat-out defense of the company. Bully of Bentonville is, as the title suggests, essentially ...