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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Demographics and Population Decline

Secular themes

Falling fertility as the slowest-moving and most confidently forecastable input to long-run returns.

Books 10Recommenders 3

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  1. Empty PlanetDarrell Bricker, John Ibbitson, 2019
  2. The Human TidePaul Morland, 2019
  3. The Great Demographic ReversalCharles Goodhart, Manoj Pradhan, 2020
An Essay on the Principle of PopulationAn Essay on the Principle of Population
T2 An Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Robert Malthus · 1798
Open LibraryGoodreads

The original population-versus-resources argument that still frames the debate

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Bending AdversityBending Adversity
T2 Bending Adversity
David Pilling · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Japan after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima, and how it might recover.

Empty PlanetEmpty Planet
T2 Empty Planet
Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

The costs and benefits of a shrinking world population.

The Great Demographic ReversalThe Great Demographic Reversal
T2 The Great Demographic Reversal
Charles Goodhart, Manoj Pradhan · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Disinflation came from a one-time surge in workers; ageing will reverse it.

FewerFewer
T3 Fewer
Ben J. Wattenberg · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Falling birth rates worldwide, and countries from Italy to Japan starting to shrink.

What to Expect When No One's ExpectingWhat to Expect When No One's Expecting
T3 What to Expect When No One's Expecting
Jonathan V. Last · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Fertility decline argued as an economic rather than a moral problem.

The Human TideThe Human Tide
T3 The Human Tide
Paul Morland · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

How population change and migration made and unmade nations over two centuries.

The Decadent SocietyThe Decadent Society
T3 The Decadent Society
Ross Douthat · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Argument that rich societies have stagnated into repetition and sterility

Recommended by: Peter Thiel

8 Billion and Counting8 Billion and Counting
T3 8 Billion and Counting
Jennifer D. Sciubba · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

A political demographer on what the numbers do and do not determine.

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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