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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Central and Eastern Europe

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The transition from planning to markets is the region's defining business event, and for most individual countries here the regional accounts are the only English-language source that goes into detail.

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  1. How Capitalism Was BuiltAnders Aslund, 2007
  2. Taking Stock of ShockKristen R. Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein, 2021
  3. The Socialist SystemJános Kornai, 1992
The Socialist SystemThe Socialist System
T1 The Socialist System
János Kornai · 1992
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How socialist economies really worked: soft budgets, shortage and party power.

Transition and EconomicsTransition and Economics
T2 Transition and Economics
Gerard Roland · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Formal political economy applied to the move from communism to markets.

How Capitalism Was BuiltHow Capitalism Was Built
T2 How Capitalism Was Built
Anders Aslund · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Comparative transition account; Czech vouchers judged against other sequencing choices.

From the Soviet Bloc to the European UnionFrom the Soviet Bloc to the European Union
T2 From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union
Ivan T. Berend · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Covers EU accession as the main driver of Romanian institutional change.

Taking Stock of Shock
T2 Taking Stock of Shock
Kristen R. Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

What happened to Eastern Europe in the thirty years after 1989, measured.

Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993
T3 Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993
Ivan T. Berend · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

Economic history that explains the industrial base the Czechs privatised.

The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism
T3 The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism
Anders Åslund, Simeon Djankov · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Includes the Czech voucher scheme written up by people who designed and criticised it.

Post-Communist Mafia State
T3 Post-Communist Mafia State
Bálint Magyar · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

A framework for how ownership is reassigned politically; the most useful guide to Hungarian counterparty risk.

Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the
T3 Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland
Marcin Piatkowski · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Poland achieved Europe's fastest sustained growth after 1989.

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