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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Deglobalisation

Secular themes

Tariffs, sanctions and security screening reversing four decades of integration. Distinct from the globalisation and supply chain entry, which covers the build-up.

Books 10Experts 2Recommenders 19

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  1. HomecomingRana Foroohar, 2022
  2. Straight Talk on TradeDani Rodrik, 2017
  3. Trade Wars Are Class WarsMatthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis, 2020
The Great IllusionThe Great Illusion
T2 The Great Illusion
Norman Angell · 1909
Open LibraryGoodreads

Conquest no longer pays, since modern prosperity rests on trade and credit.

Recommended by: Peter Thiel

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
T2 The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

After the Cold War, conflict will follow cultural and religious fault lines.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 3 others

Has Globalization Gone Too Far?Has Globalization Gone Too Far?
T2 Has Globalization Gone Too Far?
Dani Rodrik · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 1997 warning that the political backlash was coming.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

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

World OrderWorld Order
T2 World Order
Henry Kissinger · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Competing regional ideas of legitimate order and the balance of power.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Mark Zuckerberg, Ray Dalio

Straight Talk on Trade
T2 Straight Talk on Trade
Dani Rodrik · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

For trade, but against hyperglobalisation that overrides national choices.

Trade Wars Are Class WarsTrade Wars Are Class Wars
T2 Trade Wars Are Class Wars
Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Trade imbalances come from how income is shared within countries.

The Sovereign IndividualThe Sovereign Individual
T3 The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

1997 forecast of digital money weakening the nation state

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Nat Eliason and 11 others

HomecomingHomecoming
T3 Homecoming
Rana Foroohar · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

The case for localisation after the pandemic supply shocks.

The End of the World Is Just the BeginningThe End of the World Is Just the Beginning
T3 The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Peter Zeihan · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why the US-guarded trading order is ending, and what that means for supply chains.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

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