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.

Send feedback

What is it?
Screenshots, up to 3 (optional)
or paste one with Ctrl+V

We use your email only to reply to you.

Pakistan

Asia Pacific

Two books explain almost everything an investor needs: kinship and patronage as the operating system, and the army as the largest business group in the country.

Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist StatePakistan: The Economy of an Elitist State
T2 Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist State
Ishrat Husain · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why Pakistan grew for four decades while an elite captured the gains.

Pakistan: A Hard CountryPakistan: A Hard Country
T2 Pakistan: A Hard Country
Anatol Lieven · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Kinship networks, patronage and why the state is weaker and more durable than it looks.

The Struggle for PakistanThe Struggle for Pakistan
T2 The Struggle for Pakistan
Ayesha Jalal · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why the security state crowded out the productive economy from the start.

Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military EcMilitary Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
T3 Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
Ayesha Siddiqa · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Pakistan army's foundations, land and industrial holdings, mapped in full.

Crossed Swords
T3 Crossed Swords
Shuja Nawaz · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

The history of Pakistan's army and its hand in how the country is governed.

Pakistan: Beyond the 'Crisis State'Pakistan: Beyond the 'Crisis State'
T3 Pakistan: Beyond the 'Crisis State'
Maleeha Lodhi · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Essays on Pakistan's energy, taxes, banking and the reforms they need.

Governing the UngovernableGoverning the Ungovernable
T3 Governing the Ungovernable
Ishrat Husain · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider on why Pakistani institutional reform keeps failing at implementation.

More asia pacific

← New ZealandPhilippines →All asia pacific