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Seven Crashes The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

Seven Crashes The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

James, Harold | 2023 | Yale University Press | 9780300263398

Subject: Economics


Source: Financial Times

Review: James categorises good crises from bad ones. The former lead to greater expansion of free trade and capital, while the latter results in a less open world. He provides a neat analysis of how different types of shock drive different responses. Crashes driven by a supply shock, like the 1970s oil price hikes, tend to lead to greater globalisation, as businesses and nations react to raise supply, wri...Read More

Silk : A History in Three Metamorphoses

Silk : A History in Three Metamorphoses

Prasad, Aarathi | 2023 | Jonathan Ball Publishers | 9780008451851

Subject: History


Source:

Review: A childhood obsession motivates this appealing history of silk and its science by biologist Aarathi Prasad. She watched south Indian hand-loom weavers turn threads into fabrics worn by her mother and aunts. At home, she saw caterpillars frantically weaving silk cradles and vanishing from view. Drawing on accounts by scientists, she follows three metamorphoses: caterpillar to moth; cocoon to commod...Read More

Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions

Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions

Liu, Zongyuan Zoe | 2023 | Harvard University Press | 9780674271913

Subject: Economics


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In Sovereign Funds, nZongyuan Zoe Liu, a fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, takes up a particular aspect of China's economic statecraft, showing how it employs its financial resources to promote its interests abroad. Notably, China uses its pile of foreign-exchange reserves to capitalize state-owned foreign-investment funds. There's a convention, known as the Santiago Principles, that com...Read More

Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington

Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington

Moorhead, Joanna | 2023 | Princeton University Press | 9780691254487

Subject: Biography


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: To Macaulay's roll of artists, she might, with only slight modification, have added the British-born Surrealist Leonora Carrington, whose landscapes veil, just, the darker corners of her life and times.Read More

The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer: How the Handover from Boomers to Gen Z Will Revolutionize Capitalism

The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer: How the Handover from Boomers to Gen Z Will Revolutionize Capitalism

Costa, Ken | 2023 | Bloomsbury Publishing India | 9781399407632

Subject: Economics


Source: Financial Times

Review: In his new book, The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer, Costa looksnat the risks to the liberal capitalist system from concentrating moneynand power in the hands of a new generation with an agenda to saventhe planet from the climate crisis and make the system more fair FT Wealth Business booksnThe transfer of wealth from boomersto zennials willreshapenthe global economynFinancier Ken Costa argue...Read More

The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk

The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk

Tulchinsky, Igor | 2023 | The MIT Press | 9780262047739

Subject: Science and Technology


Source: Financial Times

Review: The authors continue with a thrilling dive into the many ways algorithms are doing so: from the development of autonomous robots and large language models, to accurate predictions of voting patterns; from improved cancer treatments to ever more lethal smart weapons. Each development mitigates against some risks, while creating new ones, making risk the shadow of ever more accurate knowledge about ...Read More

The Ascent: A House Can Have Many Secrets

The Ascent: A House Can Have Many Secrets

Hertmans, Stefan | 2023 | Pantheon Books | 9780593316467

Subject: Literature


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: For years, Mientje Verhulst regarded her husband as a man of mystery. In 1938, her neighbor in Ghent, Belgium, informed her that two nights a week Willem was screening movies in a private cinema for an audience of Germanic nationalists. When Mientje pressed him on it, he told her it was work-related and that she should mind her own business. In 1940, soon after the Germans occupied the city, Mient...Read More

The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World

The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World

Norberg, Johan | 2023 | Atlantic Books | 9781838957896

Subject: Economics


Source: Financial Times

Review: Central to capitalism, according to Norberg, is its Socratic wisdom or the notion that marketsn do not presume to know what is best, compared to say an all-powerful government choosing what to produce. In this way, the freedom of buyers to choose products across a competitive market allocates resources more effectively, while profit motivates continual innovation. But Norberg is'not solely focused...Read More

The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans

The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans

Trethewey, Laura | 2023 | HarperCollins | 9780063099951

Subject: Science and Technology


Source: Strategy + Business

Review: Sonar (sonic navigation and ranging) an instrument invented at the beginning of the 20th century and since perfected is central to this story. It is regularly employed aboard small fishing boats and large research vessels alike, where it uses sound to image the hidden relief of the seafloor. But The Deepest Map is more focused on the unsung heroes of ocean mapping than on technological innovation....Read More

The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration

The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration

Edwards, Richard | 2023 | Bison Books | 9781496230843

Subject: History


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, Congress enacted one of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation in American history. The Homestead Act's sponsor, Rep. Galusha Grow of Pennsylvania, declared soaringly that the act would reward the soldier now in the field fighting the battles of constitutional free government as well as the soldiers of peace that grand army of the sons of toilwhose batt...Read More

The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage

The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage

Ireland, Tom | 2023 | W. W. Norton & Company | 9781324050834

Subject: Science and Technology


Source: Strategy + Business

Review: In his Nobel Lecture delivered on 11 December 1945, Alexander Fleming recounted how his pursuit of a chance observation of a mold contaminating a culture plate led eventually to the industrial production of penicillin, the first-ever antibiotic (1). While anticipating the remarkable impact the drug would have on global health, Fleming also made a prescient warning: If used negligently, resistance ...Read More

The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus

The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus

Gunnar Broberg | 2023 | Princeton University Press | 9780691213422

Subject: Science and Technology


Source: Strategy + Business

Review: In 1741, the famed father of taxonomy Carl Linnaeus experienced a setback that will be familiar to many modern scientists: He had a paper rejected. His account of his travels to the Swedish island of Gotland was denied publication due to its being most carelessly written and covered in corrective ink marks, with no mention of the quality of the narrative itself. This anecdote, recounted in chapter...Read More

The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life

The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life

Carlisle, Clare | 2023 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 9780374600464

Subject: Literature


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: When George Eliot agreed (reluctantly, by all accounts) to have her portrait made in 1865, she surely never imagined that her face would be forever linked with her published works. Yet today when we think of the author of Middlemarch (1871), we immediately picture the somewhat mournful countenance that Frederic Burton captured and that subsequently graced numerous editions of her novels. Like the ...Read More

The Master BuildernHow the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life

The Master BuildernHow the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life

Arias, Alfonso Martinez | 2023 | Hachette Book | 9781541603271

Subject: Science and Technology


Source: Strategy + Business

Review: The Master Builder, by developmental biologist Alfonzo Martinez Arias, questions this gene-centric view and proposes an alternative, cell-centric take. Martinez Arias's perspective is that genes themselves do not determine cellular morphology, organization, or function. An organism, he maintains, is best viewed as a collection of cells that use genes to produce tools that determine the cellular be...Read More

The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

Harding,Thomas | 2023 | Pegasus Books | 9781639364459

Subject: Biography


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Nazi racial policies after 1933 drove a wave of Jewish refugees westward to Britain and the United States. To measure their impact, look beyond the detonation at Los Alamos and imagine diplomacy without Henry Kissinger, computing without John von Neumann, or the theater without Tom Stoppard. In 1938, following Germany's annexation of Austria, 19-year-old Arthur George Weidenfeld escaped to London ...Read More

The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything

The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything

Coates, John | 2023 | Columbia Global Reports | 9798987053546

Subject: Economics


Source: Financial Times

Review: A problem of twelve arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation The Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies a concentration of power that's unprecedented in America. Then there's the rise of private equity funds su...Read More

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

Huang, Yasheng Ph.D. | 2023 | Yale University Press | 9780300266368

Subject: History


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In the past few years, Yasheng Huang has found himself becoming disenchanted as a scholar, tired of the shackles placed on him by academic journals. Their excessive specialization has led, he complains, to a suboptimal supply of big ideas. So he set out to liberate himself from refereed publications and write a sweeping and self-consciously ambitious book about his native China. The riveting resul...Read More

The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History

The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History

Jurdem, Laurence | 2023 | Pegasus Books | 9781639364411

Subject: History


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In 1884, as Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts prepared to attend the Republican National Convention, he sent a letter to Theodore Roosevelt of New York, who was also scheduled to be at the Chicago gathering. The two men had never formally met, but Lodge felt they had much in common. Neither was particularly well-known. The political experience of each at that point consisted mostly of brief stint...Read More

The Seven Measures of the World

The Seven Measures of the World

Martin, Piero | 2023 | Yale University Press | 9780300266276

Subject: Mathematics and Statistics


Source:

Review: The great civilizations of the ancient world could use precise measurements witness the Egyptian pyramids. But their units differed. Not until 1960 was the international system of measurement (SI) introduced, defining the metre, second, kilogram, ampere, kelvin and candela Then the mole in 1971. Each gets a chapter in this concise, anecdotal history by experimental physicist Piero Martin. He stres...Read More

The Social Life of Democracy

The Social Life of Democracy

Sarukkai, Sundar | 2023 | Seagull Books | 9781803091747

Subject: Political Science


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: How do we experience democracy Sarukkai explores the conceptual basis of democracy in detail by analysing the myth of the people; the role of labour, science and technology, and religion in cultivating a democratic self; the role of trust and trusteeship, creating and experiencing a sense of the public, the relationship between the notion of truth and politics, the roles of self-rule and self-resp...Read More

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