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  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.
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  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.
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  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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Japan

Asia Pacific

The developed world's laboratory for what happens after an asset bubble bursts: three decades of balance-sheet repair, cross-shareholdings and, more recently, a genuine governance reform that has changed the equity case.

Books 7Experts 1Recommenders 2

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  1. The Bubble EconomyChristopher Wood, 1992
  2. MITI and the Japanese MiracleChalmers A. Johnson, 1982
  3. The Holy Grail of MacroeconomicsRichard C. Koo, 2008
MITI and the Japanese MiracleMITI and the Japanese Miracle
T1 MITI and the Japanese Miracle
Chalmers A. Johnson · 1982
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Japan's trade ministry steered industry from 1925 to 1975.

The Holy Grail of MacroeconomicsThe Holy Grail of Macroeconomics
T1 The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics
Richard C. Koo · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Balance-sheet recessions: firms repay debt instead of borrowing, so rate cuts fail.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Japan as Number OneJapan as Number One
T2 Japan as Number One
Ezra F. Vogel · 1979
Open LibraryGoodreads

What Japan's institutions had solved that America had not, and what to learn.

The Bubble EconomyThe Bubble Economy
T2 The Bubble Economy
Christopher Wood · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

Japan's asset bubble and its deflation, written as it happened in 1992.

Saving the SunSaving the Sun
T2 Saving the Sun
Gillian Tett · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Japan's banking collapse told through Long-Term Credit Bank's failure and sale.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Business Reinvention of Japan
T2 The Business Reinvention of Japan
Ulrike Schaede · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Japanese firms after 1990 moved into hidden upstream niches rather than stagnate.

Princes of the YenPrinces of the Yen
T3 Princes of the Yen
Richard A. Werner · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

A contested but influential reading of the Bank of Japan's credit guidance.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

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