Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter.

If only Jack London’s Frisco was still au courant as a term for SF, this would be slightly more catchy

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter.

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter.

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter.

I agree with you generally. I do think however that autarky-as-backup-plan may come into vogue.Not the same standard of living as free trade, but not zero either in a supply chain disruption situation.It’s not easy but may be easier than people think.

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' Bill Gates'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' New York Times Book ReviewIn 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu teach us about the fight against present day crises, and how to prepare for future outbreaks? At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the aftermath of Covid-19 and future pandemics looming on the horizon.

One may have to set aside ego to read it, but it floats a different approach: avoid war, accept that China is rising, renegotiate the order.

I agree that those pressures were present. I find books like this useful as an alternate perspective on the era

Ron Paul was to Bitcoin what Andrew Yang is to startup societies. Mainstreams ideas, prepares the ideological battlefield.

2) Gold from the Americas did flood Europe in the 1500s, which helped cause inflation.

This author’s work is a lot of fun. Not exactly art, but novel approach with a lot of visual inspiration.

The American century is ending. The Asian century is beginning.

"A broad survey of Western historical anomalies, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries." - Balaji Srinivasan

This is now out on Kindle for $10. Nadia is very smart and it’s worth reading anything she writes on open source.

As an example, the Little Bitcoin Book was written in a few days by N people, one chapter each, and then published on Amazon.

There’s another 1st round KO possibility, which I mention for the sake of completeness. Garside’s book “China Coup” makes the case that Xi could be felled by his internal enemies (possible!) and that this will lead to democratization (IMO implausible).

Decent book — by a central banker! — on the lack of legitimacy of central banking and the regulatory state writ large.