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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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Globalisation and Supply Chains

Business themes

How production fragmented across borders, what it did to prices and wages, and why it is now partially reversing.

Books 12Experts 2Recommenders 13

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  1. The BoxMarc Levinson, 2006
  2. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global EconomyPietra Rivoli, 2005
  3. The Great ConvergenceRichard Baldwin, 2016
Globalization and Its DiscontentsGlobalization and Its Discontents
T1 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 BoxThe Box
T1 The Box
Marc Levinson · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the shipping container cut freight costs and remade global trade.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Paul Graham and 1 other

The Great ConvergenceThe Great Convergence
T1 The Great Convergence
Richard Baldwin · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Globalisation's two phases: cheap shipping of goods, then cheap movement of ideas.

Recommended by: Satya Nadella

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 Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global EconoThe Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
T2 The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
Pietra Rivoli · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

One T-shirt traced from a Texas cotton farm to a Chinese factory and beyond.

The World Is FlatThe World Is Flat
T2 The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Ten forces around 2000 that let anyone, anywhere compete in the global economy.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates, Jamie Dimon and 2 others

A Splendid ExchangeA Splendid Exchange
T2 A Splendid Exchange
William J. Bernstein · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Long-distance trade from Mesopotamia and the spice routes to modern globalisation.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Mohnish Pabrai, Nick Szabo

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitali23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
T2 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Twenty-three free-market claims, each set against counter-evidence.

Recommended by: Morgan Housel

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 American ChallengeThe American Challenge
T3 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 Power of ProductivityThe Power of Productivity
T3 The Power of Productivity
William W. Lewis · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Sector-level explanation of why productivity differs so much between countries

“on how technology-driven productivity growth improves human welfare and creates more jobs and higher wages” — Marc Andreessen

Source: @pmarca, companion thread to 'It's Time to Build'

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen, Patrick Collison

HomecomingHomecoming
T3 Homecoming
Rana Foroohar · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

The case for localisation after the pandemic supply shocks.

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