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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.
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  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.
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  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
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  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.
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  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.
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Latin American economies

Economics

Economic histories and policy studies of Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and the region as a whole, including its debt crises and populist episodes.

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  1. The Other PathHernando de Soto, 1989
  2. The Economic History of Latin America since IndependenceVictor Bulmer-Thomas, 1994
  3. Peru 1890-1977: Growth and Policy in an Open EconomyRosemary Thorp, Geoffrey Bertram, 1978
  4. The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin AmericaRudiger Dornbusch, Sebastian Edwards, 1991
  5. Crisis and Reform in Latin AmericaSebastian Edwards, 1995
The Other PathThe Other Path
T1 The Other Path
Hernando de Soto · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

A study of Lima's informal economy and the legal costs that keep the poor outside it.

The Economic History of Latin America since The Economic History of Latin America since Independence
T1 The Economic History of Latin America since Independence
Victor Bulmer-Thomas · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Latin America's economies from independence to today, period by period.

Peru 1890-1977: Growth and Policy in an OpenPeru 1890-1977: Growth and Policy in an Open Economy
T2 Peru 1890-1977: Growth and Policy in an Open Economy
Rosemary Thorp, Geoffrey Bertram · 1978
Open LibraryGoodreads

Peru's export economy from 1890 to 1977, and why growth did not bring development.

The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin AmerThe Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America
T2 The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America
Rudiger Dornbusch, Sebastian Edwards · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Latin American populist economic programmes follow a cycle from boom to collapse.

Crisis and Reform in Latin AmericaCrisis and Reform in Latin America
T2 Crisis and Reform in Latin America
Sebastian Edwards · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Latin America's reforms from the 1980s debt crisis to the mid-1990s, assessed.

Pinochet's Economists: The Chicago School inPinochet's Economists: The Chicago School in Chile
T2 Pinochet's Economists: The Chicago School in Chile
Juan Gabriel Valdés · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Chicago-trained Chilean economists came to run economic policy under Pinochet.

How Latin America Fell BehindHow Latin America Fell Behind
T2 How Latin America Fell Behind
Stephen Haber · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Essays on why Brazil's and Mexico's economies lagged from 1800 to 1914.

Argentina and the FundArgentina and the Fund
T2 Argentina and the Fund
Michael Mussa · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

The IMF's own former chief economist on the Fund's failures in Argentina.

A New Economic History of ArgentinaA New Economic History of Argentina
T2 A New Economic History of Argentina
Gerardo della Paolera, Alan M. Taylor · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Essays on why a rich, well-endowed Argentina stagnated for so long.

And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out)And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out)
T2 And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out)
Paul Blustein · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Argentina and the IMF headed toward the 2001 default and devaluation.

Debt Defaults and Lessons from a Decade of CDebt Defaults and Lessons from a Decade of Crises
T2 Debt Defaults and Lessons from a Decade of Crises
Federico Sturzenegger, Jeromin Zettelmeyer · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Sovereign debt restructurings from Russia in 1998 to Argentina, case by case.

The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago
T2 The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
Sebastian Edwards · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Chile's market reforms under Pinochet and their results up to the 2019 protests.

Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970
T3 Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970
Marco Palacios · 1980
Open LibraryGoodreads

Economic history of the crop, the growers' federation and the export institutions built around it.

The Chilean Economy: Policy Lessons and ChalThe Chilean Economy: Policy Lessons and Challenges
T3 The Chilean Economy: Policy Lessons and Challenges
Barry P. Bosworth, Rudiger Dornbusch, Raúl Labán · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Brookings assessment of the reform package by economists who took it seriously.

Chile's Free-Market Miracle: A Second LookChile's Free-Market Miracle: A Second Look
T3 Chile's Free-Market Miracle: A Second Look
Joseph Collins, John Lear · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

The critical case; distributional costs behind the headline growth numbers.

Chile: The Great TransformationChile: The Great Transformation
T3 Chile: The Great Transformation
Javier Martínez, Alvaro Díaz · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the productive structure and business class were remade after 1973.

Left Behind: Latin America and the False ProLeft Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism
T3 Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism
Sebastian Edwards · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why growth kept disappointing despite reform; good on institutions and productivity.

Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Econo
T3 Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse
Ricardo Hausmann, Francisco Rodríguez · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Academic but decisive: the decline began decades before Chávez, and shows why.

Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined VenezuelCrude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
T3 Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
Raúl Gallegos · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

The mechanics of subsidised fuel, multiple exchange rates and arbitrage as a national industry.

Argentina's Economic Reforms of the 1990s inArgentina's Economic Reforms of the 1990s in Contemporary and Historical Perspective
T3 Argentina's Economic Reforms of the 1990s in Contemporary and Historical Perspective
Domingo Cavallo, Sonia Cavallo Runde · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider: the economy minister who built convertibility defending the record.

Essays on Industrialization in ColombiaEssays on Industrialization in Colombia
T4 Essays on Industrialization in Colombia
R. Albert Berry · 1983
Open LibraryGoodreads

Dated but the only serious English work on Colombian manufacturing.

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