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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.
  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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Joseph E. Stiglitz

T2AcademicsEconomic growth and development

New Keynesian economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979; formerly chief economist of the World Bank and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Columbia UniversityWorld BankCouncil of Economic Advisers

Globalization and Its Discontents documents from inside the institutions how IMF conditionality worked during the Asian and Russian crises, and why capital-account liberalisation ran ahead of the safeguards that would have made it survivable. The information-economics argument beneath the later books explains why markets with unequal information do not clear at efficient prices.

5 books of their own · 20 articles

Books 5Writing 20Profiles 2

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  1. Globalization and Its DiscontentsJoseph E. Stiglitz, 2002
  2. The EuroJoseph E. Stiglitz, 2016
  3. Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social ProgressJoseph E. Stiglitz, 2014
Globalization and Its DiscontentsGlobalization and Its Discontents
T2 Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

An attack on the IMF's one-size-fits-all policies in the crises of the 1990s.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The EuroThe Euro
T2 The Euro
Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

The euro rests on false assumptions; Europe must complete the union or end it.

Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
T2 Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Living standards rise through learning, and how policy can make economies learn.

“For a wonderful book that builds on Arrow's research, see Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald, Creating A Learning Society” — Michael Mauboussin

Source: Increasing Returns: Identifying Forms of Increasing Returns and What Drives Them (Consilient Observer)

Recommended by: Michael Mauboussin

Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics
T2 Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics
Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Monetary policy works through credit and bank lending, not the quantity of money.

Escaping the Resource CurseEscaping the Resource Curse
T3 Escaping the Resource Curse
Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Norway is the counterexample the whole volume is arranged around.

Globalization and Its DiscontentsAn attack on the IMF's one-size-fits-all policies in the crises of the 1990s.2002T2Patrick Collison
The EuroThe euro rests on false assumptions; Europe must complete the union or end it.2016T2–
Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social ProgressLiving standards rise through learning, and how policy can make economies learn.2014T2Michael Mauboussin
Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary EconomicsMonetary policy works through credit and bank lending, not the quantity of money.2003T2–
Escaping the Resource CurseNorway is the counterexample the whole volume is arranged around.2007T3–

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macroemerging-marketsglobalisationinformation-asymmetryimf-conditionalityeuro-crisisdevelopment-economicsinequality