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Excellent analysis of Russia’s politics

Revisado: 08-31-23

The assessment of the political development is superbly documented and strong scientific and non-conventional arguments are used to explain historical events and Russia’s current polirical situation. Highly recommended reading.

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Very interesting story

Revisado: 02-26-23

Excellent story, well narrated and written. Did the vikings ever go to nothern Africa? That would an interesting follow up this book.

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Excellent analysis of a global problem

Revisado: 02-06-21

Tepper has made an excellent analysis of what is wrong with capitalistic system in the US of today. But the problem is not only there, it is a global problem. The sad thing is that politicians on both side of the aisle seem to be uninterested in taking actions towards their big corporate sponsors which in most cases are encumbents protecting monopolistic or near monopolistic market positions. One good example is the finance and banking industry where the regulators are issuing hundred thousand pages of Basel regulations which pratically make it impossible to start or run a small finance company or bank. The large institutions are just paying lip service to the critism of this overeagerness of heavy handed regulations knowing that for each new regulations implemented their dominant market positions get ever more unassailable. Who is paying the price for this effectice reduction of competition? You, dear consumer. The loss to consumers and society in general due overregulations will be many times the losses incurred by the financial crisis. Bear in mind that the US Treasurys investments in saving banks and finance companies were paid back with interest in 2014. The global corrision of competitive forces will cost tax payers and the common man many times the loss of output due the financial crisis. It is now more than 11 years since financial crisis ended and there does not seem to be any stop to the regulatory tsunami hitting e.g. the finance and banking sector.

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Excellent story on how FAMA concured our lives

Revisado: 10-03-20

Shoshana Zuboff lays out the main principles and philosophies behind the creation of the online titans of today, particularly Facebook, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon. She explains how these companies cynically and methodologically exploit the data from other companies and personal users to optimise their power and business profits. Anybody wondering about why these companies are let roaming around free and in many instances behaving outside normal established norms and convention applicable to the physical non-online world should read this book. Also, anybody interested in the future societal consequences of Internet and the increasing online presence in our daily lives should also take time to read this book. Finally, all students of national and international law should read this book. Privacy is like the nuclear bomb, when you have given away the right to your own data, it can't be retaken.

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The most hopeless book I have listen too!

Revisado: 12-14-19

I am listening to 60 audiobooks per year, and some of them are quite "heavy" in their content. I am used to concentrating when I am listening to the audiobooks, and in general, I find that I can grasp the core points the author is making in most of the books I am listening to. However, with this one, I found it hopeless. Impossible to find the "red thread" in the story which is sprinkled with anecdotes, terms and stories which are going off in all angels. So I stopped listening halfway. There are three main ingredients to a wordy audiobook listening too; 1) compelling story with a "red thread" and a minimum of dramaturgy, 3) clear and concise arguments, counter-arguments and conclusions/observations/learning and 3) a narrator whom just don't read the story but also give the story some emotional content. In this book, only the latter was achieved.

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Excellent story and analysis!

Revisado: 05-18-19

Yuval is writing in thought provocative style which make you pay attention to his story. I believe he is onto something in his description of the major challenges of our time. Will the algorithms in biological and artificial structures i.e. digital software, take over the control of life on Earth, and ultimately replace humans entirely? His story raises fundamental questions which we humans must find answers to, and not too late. It is paradoxical that in a time when technology has taken over so many tasks from humans, we the humans face our greatest challenge of defining which values and principles we will ahere to in building our future societies. I believe that tomorrow is not so much about the technology, but much more about the latter. Without understandable and acceptable values and principles to govern our choices, I am afraid that parts of Yuval's doomsday scenario might come through. The challenge is up to all of us!

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Excellent about business development and valuesr

Revisado: 03-26-19

Ed gets the point across in terms of the values, principles, beliefs and actions required to build a truly unique company as Pixar, and what is tequired in order to keep world class innovation going for more quarter of a century. This book should be read by anyone interested nuturing the creative process and how to manage it.

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It's the politics, stupid!

Revisado: 02-06-18

Would you listen to Why Nations Fail again? Why?

After having read Jared Diamond's book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive", it was enlightening to read this book which offered, in my opinion, more compelling arguments for why nations and civilizations fail than just the more geographical reasoning offered by Jared Diamond and other authors trying to explain this phenomena. The core explanation offered is rooted in different societies ability of developing inclusive political institutions and distributive economic institutions leading to economic prosperity and political stable nations versus developing exclusive political institutions and extractive economic institutions leading to poverty and authoritarian regimes. To repeat one of the other recommendations: "And their conclusion is a cheering one: the authoritarian "extractive" institutions like the one's that drive growth in China today are bound to run out of steam. Without the inclusive institutions that first evolved in the West, sustainable growth is impossible, because only a truly free society can foster genuine innovation and the creative destruction that is its corollary".

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Excellent read.

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Selfrespect and European values - what’s the future?

Revisado: 02-02-18

The book is wake-up call in relation to the challenges that the liberal and secular Europe has to address now and in the years to come in order to not loose itself. I recommend snyone, no matter political color to read the book. This is a topic you cannot be agnostic to.

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Want to get to know of the inner workings of Kremlin?

Revisado: 02-02-18

Super interesting story of how Putin get to power in the late 1990’s, and how Putin gordana from being quiet pro-West to recent the Americans and the western politicians. The story is exiting as a Russian “House of Cards”. The topic and the book deserves it own TV-series. I think many Europeans could learn a lot about Russian and European politics from this highly relevant deep dive into the inner workings of Russian politics.

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