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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Europe

25 countries and 3 regions holding 171 books.

AustriaAustria's contribution to investor literature is intellectual and historical rather than corporate: the Austrian School, and the 1931 Creditanstalt…5 books
BelgiumNothing on modern Belgian business in English: the Fortis collapse, one of Europe's larger 2008 bank failures, has no book.2 books
CE
Central and Eastern EuropeThe transition from planning to markets is the region's defining business event, and for most individual countries here the regional accounts are…9 books
CzechiaBetter served than it looks.5 books
DenmarkClose to absent.3 books
FinlandOne corporate story dominates: Nokia's rise, collapse and reconstruction, told once by the chairman who lived it.6 books
FranceA state-shaped economy where the elite pipeline, national champions and labour law matter more than the equity market; the English-language business…6 books
GermanyAn export-and-manufacturing economy built on cheap energy, a fixed exchange rate it does not control and a Mittelstand ownership model, all three of…7 books
GreeceStrong on the crisis and now decent on the underlying economy.9 books
HungaryTwo things are worth reading Hungary for: Kornai's analysis of how planned economies actually behave, which is a permanent contribution, and the…8 books
IcelandA fishing economy that turned three banks into a hedge fund ten times the size of its GDP and then let them fail.9 books
IrelandThe Celtic Tiger and its bust are exceptionally well documented, from polemical overview down to the anatomy of the single bank that broke the…9 books
ItalyA country of excellent small manufacturers, weak banks, high public debt and slow courts; the political economy and the informal economy explain…6 books
NetherlandsWhere modern finance was invented: the first joint-stock company, the first liquid secondary market and the first recorded speculative bubble, all…6 books
NorwayNorway matters to investors for one reason above all: the oil fund, the largest single pool of institutional capital in the world and the model for…6 books
PolandThe most successful post-communist transition in Europe, built on shock therapy, EU accession funds and a large domestic market; the…8 books
PortugalAlmost nothing on the modern corporate scene.5 books
RomaniaNo business book on Romania as such, but Verdery's fieldwork on property restitution is a genuine Romania-specific study of how ownership was…6 books
RussiaA resource economy in which property rights are contingent on political favour; the literature is largely about how assets were acquired in the…6 books
SpainA market defined by a savings-bank-funded property bubble, its bailout and the export-led recovery afterwards; the English-language business…9 books
SwedenA small open economy with world-class industrial and consumer exporters, dual-class share structures that keep control in a few families, and a…9 books
SwitzerlandA small open economy with an oversized banking and pharmaceutical sector, a currency that acts as a global safe haven, and an offshore wealth…9 books
E
The EurozoneA crowded and genuinely good literature.9 books
N
The NordicsWeak as a business literature, but not empty.8 books
TurkeyA large, young, industrially capable economy repeatedly undone by unorthodox monetary policy, currency crises and political interference in the…9 books
UkraineAnders Åslund wrote most of the useful English-language material on Ukraine's economy, oligarch structure and repeated failed reform attempts.6 books
United KingdomA small domestic economy attached to an outsized international financial centre, so UK-listed returns depend far more on the City, sterling and…6 books
Weimar GermanyNot a current market: a historical case study, and the one every investor reaches for when discussing monetary debasement.9 books

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