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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Sweden

Europe

A small open economy with world-class industrial and consumer exporters, dual-class share structures that keep control in a few families, and a 1990s banking crisis that became the template for bank resolution. The English-language literature on that crisis is unusually thin.

Books 9Experts 1

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  1. The Spotify PlaySven Carlsson, Jonas Leijonhufvud, 2019
  2. The Swedish ExperimentAssar Lindbeck, 1997
  3. Reforming the Welfare StateRichard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, Robert H. Topel, 2010
The Swedish ExperimentThe Swedish Experiment
T2 The Swedish Experiment
Assar Lindbeck · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

What went wrong with Sweden's welfare-state model, leading to the 1990s crisis.

The Spotify PlayThe Spotify Play
T2 The Spotify Play
Sven Carlsson, Jonas Leijonhufvud · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Spotify from its 2006 founding to its public listing.

Sweden, the Middle WaySweden, the Middle Way
T3 Sweden, the Middle Way
Marquis W. Childs · 1936
Open LibraryGoodreads

The book that made the Swedish model an international reference point.

Leading by DesignLeading by Design
T3 Leading by Design
Bertil Torekull, Ingvar Kamprad · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

IKEA's history, with long passages in which its founder explains his methods.

Reforming the Welfare State
T3 Reforming the Welfare State
Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, Robert H. Topel · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

NBER volume on the post-crisis reforms that restored Swedish growth.

The IKEA EdgeThe IKEA Edge
T3 The IKEA Edge
Anders Dahlvig · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider account: the CEO from 1999-2009 on the operating model.

The Almost Nearly Perfect PeopleThe Almost Nearly Perfect People
T3 The Almost Nearly Perfect People
Michael Booth · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Journalistic, but the Denmark chapters on debt, tax and the flexicurity bargain are substantive.

Viking EconomicsViking Economics
T3 Viking Economics
George Lakey · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Popular and partisan, but the clearest short account of the Nordic bargain.

Furthering a Fortune
T4 Furthering a Fortune
Ulf Olsson · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Marcus Wallenberg and the bank-industry structure that still controls Swedish capital.

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