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The need to stay grounded

Revisado: 02-13-24

I really enjoyed the book as the naked account of “what happened”. A lot of lesson learned as the beauty of staying disciplined and grounded in life as well as the change of human behavior in the face of a vast amount of wealth.

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Hard to follow

Revisado: 02-02-24

The book contains way too much information and details and it sometimes felt as if the author is passing through the information over as just information. Maybe this is done intentionally, but it made a less joyful reading experience as you are hanged there trying to guess the point the author wants to make: info is looked over by the government? People are data? Surveillance Capitalism? What is it.

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An enlightening book

Revisado: 01-31-24

The effort that the author had spent into the book is definitely obvious to whoever that reads it. I appreciate the context and the arrangement of different narratives as to paint the complex picture and its dynamics.

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Great book

Revisado: 10-30-23

Really enjoyed this book:

Have a vision and recognize the context and communicate with care

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Love the stories but

Revisado: 10-22-23

I really feel that the book’s story are very good, but then it misses the big question as of what to do deal with such kind of an event

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Elephant in the room

Revisado: 06-11-23

Let’s have the elephant in the room addressed: cyber security. It is of great challenge that any firm will allow for the connection on massive data volume with a 2nd companies, and the fact that both of them are corporations make it even more difficult.

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A fair review

Revisado: 07-08-22

Of the a few low ratings, I thought of reading carefully through the book and get to the bottom of it. First, you have to read the book along side with audio. There are a lot of data presented in the book which I will give credit to the author of the time it had taken to research it. Second, you must need to have an interest with finance or economics in order to get through the book as it’s very long. If you do, the book will be a very interesting read.

Now, the bad thing about the book. The author only began to reveal the intention of pouring all the data for the first 350 pages until page 400, where you began to learn his thesis is of first a praise for modern monetary policy and a call of using it more. With the benefit of hindsight, it shows how the logic have failed to consider the full mechanism where too much focused is put on the method of finance and what to do with the money and now enough on how to acquire the goods needed. In short, the Fed can print the money but not the oil and iron to get the job done.

Nevertheless, the book is a good read as it helps to identify the missing gap or assumption as to see how MMT has created in the end a very fragile economic system that is easily attacked through supply constraint and can cause big economic consequences with high inflation nowadays across the globe.

Thus, instead of the free money story, we may just as well enter into a period of low growth for longer with high inflation for longer as MMT had printed too much money and it will take 10 years to have it resolved.

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Wow, this is a must read

Revisado: 03-04-21

3 letter is enough. Yes, Wow! Incredible and life changing book and only hoped that I read this earlier.

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A ground breaking introduction

Revisado: 02-21-21

As this book was written in 2010, the book from Pikkety “Capital and Ideology” is yet to see its light. As such, this short 100 pages book opened the door to much of social economic and political economic that we see from Pikkety.

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Review of thoughts

Revisado: 10-19-20

The books first and second chapters do share some good lights on the importance for business to carry a social vision, which is very important for a healthy business. Nonetheless, I feel the book lost its ground going forward, first begin with the chapter on financing and second on social cooperation. The way that the author approached the statement is to support them by stories of companies, but because there is so few of them it felt like cherry-picking and weak, likewise, the description of the narrative seems dry and repetitive.

In the end, I am glad of the reminder for the social mission that a company carry but disheartens by the way that the author approached the statement.

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