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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South Africa

Middle East and Africa

A sophisticated financial market and a deep mining history sitting on top of state capture, an unreliable power supply and weak enforcement; the accounting-fraud and corruption literature is the most useful for investors.

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  1. Truth to PowerAndre de Ruyter, 2023
  2. Shadow StateIvor Chipkin, Mark Swilling, Haroon Bhorat, 2018
  3. Diamonds, Gold, and WarMartin Meredith, 2007
Diamonds, Gold, and WarDiamonds, Gold, and War
T2 Diamonds, Gold, and War
Martin Meredith · 2007
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How diamonds and gold set Britain against the Boers before the 1910 union.

The Looting MachineThe Looting Machine
T2 The Looting Machine
Tom Burgis · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Africa's oil and minerals are extracted in ways that leave its people poorer.

Shadow State
T2 Shadow State
Ivor Chipkin, Mark Swilling, Haroon Bhorat · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

How South Africa's state was captured, traced through procurement documents.

Truth to Power
T2 Truth to Power
Andre de Ruyter · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Eskom's former chief executive on why South Africa's power supply can't be fixed.

Enemy of the PeopleEnemy of the People
T3 Enemy of the People
Adriaan Basson, Pieter du Toit · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Zuma years assembled into a single narrative of capture.

How to Steal a CityHow to Steal a City
T3 How to Steal a City
Crispian Olver · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Municipal tender corruption reconstructed from the inside.

The Republic of Gupta
T3 The Republic of Gupta
Pieter-Louis Myburgh · 2017
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The state-capture network and how state enterprises were monetised.

Steinheist
T3 Steinheist
Rob Rose · 2018
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Steinhoff: the largest accounting fraud in South African corporate history.

Gangster State
T3 Gangster State
Pieter-Louis Myburgh · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Procurement capture inside the governing party.

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