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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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Niall Ferguson

T2AcademicsJournalistsFinancial history and ideas

British-American historian who previously taught at Harvard, the London School of Economics, New York University, Oxford and Cambridge.

Hoover InstitutionBelfer Center, Harvard UniversityOxfordHarvardNYU Stern

Niall Ferguson's Time Machine

The Ascent of Money traces credit, bond markets, joint-stock equity, insurance and property finance from their origins, giving investors the institutional history behind instruments they price every day. The House of Rothschild and High Financier examine how two banking houses actually made money and managed sovereign and political risk over long periods.

8 books of their own · 133 articles

Books 8Writing 133Profiles 5

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  1. The Ascent of MoneyNiall Ferguson, 2008
  2. The House of RothschildNiall Ferguson
  3. High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund WarburgNiall Ferguson, 2010
The Ascent of MoneyThe Ascent of Money
T2 The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

The history of finance by instrument: credit, bonds, stocks, insurance and property.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Max Levchin, Raoul Pal and 2 others

The House of Rothschild
T2 The House of Rothschild
Niall Ferguson
Goodreads

The Rothschild banks of five cities from 1798 to 1999, from the family archive.

Recommended by: Mark Zuckerberg

High Financier: The Lives and Time of SiegmuHigh Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
T2 High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
Niall Ferguson · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Siegmund Warburg, who fled Germany and founded S.G. Warburg in London.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British WEmpire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
T2 Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
Niall Ferguson · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the British Empire shaped the modern world, from globalisation to democracy.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Civilization: The West and the RestCivilization: The West and the Rest
T2 Civilization: The West and the Rest
Niall Ferguson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Six advantages, from competition to the work ethic, that let the West pull ahead.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century ConfThe War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
T2 The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Niall Ferguson · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why the 20th century's great progress came with unprecedented violence.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Pity Of War Explaining World War IThe Pity Of War Explaining World War I
T2 The Pity Of War Explaining World War I
Niall Ferguson · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Britain's entry turned a continental war into a world war that was not inevitable.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Kissinger: 1923-1968: The IdealistKissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
T4 Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
Niall Ferguson · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Ascent of MoneyThe history of finance by instrument: credit, bonds, stocks, insurance and property.2008T2Mohnish Pabrai, Max Levchin, Raoul Pal and 2 others
The House of RothschildThe Rothschild banks of five cities from 1798 to 1999, from the family archive.T2Mark Zuckerberg
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund WarburgSiegmund Warburg, who fled Germany and founded S.G. Warburg in London.2010T2Mohnish Pabrai
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global PowerHow the British Empire shaped the modern world, from globalisation to democracy.2003T2Mohnish Pabrai
Civilization: The West and the RestSix advantages, from competition to the work ethic, that let the West pull ahead.2011T2Mohnish Pabrai
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the WestWhy the 20th century's great progress came with unprecedented violence.2006T2Mohnish Pabrai
The Pity Of War Explaining World War IBritain's entry turned a continental war into a world war that was not inevitable.1998T2Mohnish Pabrai
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist–2015Patrick Collison

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