Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Asia Pacific

17 countries and 2 regions holding 129 books.

AustraliaA leveraged bet on Chinese resource demand sitting on top of an oligopolistic banking and housing complex; the mandatory superannuation pool is the…7 books
BangladeshMicrofinance is very well covered, from the founder's own account to sceptical audits of the evidence.7 books
CA
Central AsiaSmall but sharp.9 books
ChinaA state-directed economy where the banking system, land sales and local-government finance are policy instruments rather than markets, so political…9 books
Hong KongA currency-board economy whose domestic wealth is concentrated in a property cartel fed by restricted land sales, and whose role as China's offshore…9 books
IndiaA large, fast-growing but heavily promoter-dominated market where the licence-raj legacy, family conglomerates and regulatory discretion still shape…7 books
IndonesiaSoutheast Asia's largest economy, run through a small number of ethnic-Chinese conglomerates and a resource-export base, with a memory of the…6 books
JapanThe developed world's laboratory for what happens after an asset bubble bursts: three decades of balance-sheet repair, cross-shareholdings and, more…7 books
KazakhstanBetter covered than most of Central Asia because the Caspian oil concessions attracted Western majors and Western reporters with them.6 books
MalaysiaOne of the better-documented emerging markets.8 books
New ZealandThinner than it should be, but not one book.6 books
PakistanTwo books explain almost everything an investor needs: kinship and patronage as the operating system, and the army as the largest business group in…7 books
PhilippinesLittle modern business writing, but an unusually strong academic literature on why Philippine banking, land and family conglomerates work the way…8 books
SingaporeA city-state run explicitly as a business: sovereign investment vehicles, a controlled land supply and a legal system built to attract capital.9 books
South KoreaThe purest example of state-directed industrial catch-up, and now a market where the chaebol ownership structure and its governance discount are the…6 books
SA
Southeast Asia and ASEANThe strongest regional literature in this file.8 books
TaiwanAn economy whose equity market is essentially one supply chain, semiconductors, sitting under a geopolitical risk no other market carries; the…9 books
ThailandThailand is unusually well served because Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker wrote the boom, the 1997 bust and the tycoon-politician who followed.9 books
VietnamBetter than its reputation.7 books

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