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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Geopolitics and national economic power

Economics

Books on the economic rise and decline of great powers, American competitiveness, sanctions and forecasts of the world order.

Books 21Experts 4Recommenders 22

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  1. ChokepointsEdward Fishman, 2025
  2. The Great IllusionNorman Angell, 1909
  3. America's Next Twenty YearsPeter F. Drucker, 1957
  4. The American ChallengeJean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 1968
  5. The Age of DiscontinuityPeter F. Drucker, 1969
Chokepoints
T2 Chokepoints
Edward Fishman · 2025
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the US made sanctions and economic warfare its main tool of coercion.

The Great IllusionThe Great Illusion
T4 The Great Illusion
Norman Angell · 1909
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

Recommended by: Peter Thiel

America's Next Twenty YearsAmerica's Next Twenty Years
T4 America's Next Twenty Years
Peter F. Drucker · 1957
Open LibraryGoodreads
The American ChallengeThe American Challenge
T4 The American Challenge
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber · 1968
Open LibraryGoodreads

1968 warning that American corporations would come to dominate Europe

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Peter Thiel

The Age of DiscontinuityThe Age of Discontinuity
T4 The Age of Discontinuity
Peter F. Drucker · 1969
Open LibraryGoodreads

Four breaks with the postwar world, from a global economy to knowledge as capital.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Toward the Next Economics and Other EssaysToward the Next Economics and Other Essays
T4 Toward the Next Economics and Other Essays
Peter F. Drucker · 1981
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Rise and Fall of the Great PowersThe Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
T4 The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Paul Kennedy · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

Military spending measured against the economy that has to carry it.

“The River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy” — Ray Dalio

Source: Ray Dalio Reddit AMA, r/IAmA (u/RayTDalio)

Recommended by: Ray Dalio, Michael Wong

Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our FutureTrading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan and How to Reclaim It
T4 Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan and How to Reclaim It
Clyde V. Prestowitz · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Competitive Advantage of NationsThe Competitive Advantage of Nations
T4 The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Michael E. Porter · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads
Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle AmoHead to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America
T4 Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America
Lester C. Thurow · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Sovereign IndividualThe Sovereign Individual
T4 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

The Post-American WorldThe Post-American World
T4 The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Bill Gates

That Used to Be UsThat Used to Be Us
T4 That Used to Be Us
Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How America is failing four challenges, from globalization to its chronic deficits.

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Comeback: America's New Economic BoomComeback: America's New Economic Boom
T4 Comeback: America's New Economic Boom
Charles R. Morris · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Accidental Superpower: The Next GeneratiThe Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
T4 The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
Peter Zeihan · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

How geography, demography and shale energy set America up to dominate as others age.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Unleashing the Second American Century: FourUnleashing the Second American Century: Four Forces for Economic Dominance
T4 Unleashing the Second American Century: Four Forces for Economic Dominance
Joel Kurtzman · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

This Brave New WorldThis Brave New World
T4 This Brave New World
Anja Manuel · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Reid Hoffman

The Future Is AsianThe Future Is Asian
T4 The Future Is Asian
Parag Khanna · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Asia as one order from Saudi Arabia to Japan, linking five billion people by trade.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan

The Changing World OrderThe Changing World Order
T4 The Changing World Order
Ray Dalio · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, David Friedberg and 2 others

The End of the World Is Just the BeginningThe End of the World Is Just the Beginning
T4 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

Principles for a Changing World Order
T4 Principles for a Changing World Order
Goodreads

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan

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