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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Middle East and Africa

14 countries and 2 regions holding 109 books.

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EthiopiaVery thin, but unusual in one respect: an Ethiopian policymaker wrote a serious book about his own industrial policy, which is worth more than any…7 books
GhanaBetter than it first appears, but all of it is agricultural and fiscal rather than corporate: cocoa pricing, the marketing board, and the Rawlings…8 books
IranBetter served than most sanctioned markets.7 books
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KenyaTwo genuinely useful books: one on how public money is captured, one on the mobile-money system that made Kenya a case study in leapfrogging.7 books
KuwaitThin on Kuwait specifically, strong on the Gulf as a capital bloc.7 books
MoroccoAlmost nothing.6 books
NigeriaAfrica's largest economy and its hardest frontier market: oil revenue, multiple exchange rates, fuel subsidies and a large consumer base that…6 books
QatarThin on the operating business.6 books
Saudi ArabiaA sovereign balance sheet run as a single portfolio: Aramco, the PIF and a diversification programme whose execution risk is the investment…6 books
South AfricaA sophisticated financial market and a deep mining history sitting on top of state capture, an unreliable power supply and weak enforcement; the…9 books
SA
Sub-Saharan AfricaFor most African countries the regional books are the country literature, so this is the entry to read first.46 books
GM
The Gulf and MENATwo literatures worth separating: the academic political economy of rentier states, which explains the structures, and the recent Saudi reporting,…6 books
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ZimbabweThe canonical modern hyperinflation, and the reason to read Zimbabwe at all: property seizure, monetary financing, currency collapse and eventual…7 books

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