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My recent posts
- The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World
- The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance
- Key Points from Book: Trillions
- Key Points from Book: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Key Points from Book: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Key Points from Book: THE SPECTRE OF WAR: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM AND THE ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II
- Key Points from Books: Unraveled – The Life and Death of a Garment
- Key Points from Books: The Examined Life
- My New Year Covid Experience
- Key Points from Books: The Economist’s View of The World
- Key Points from Book: The Magic Money Tree and Other Economic Tales
- Key Points from Books: Blowout
- Key Summary from Books: Red Roulette
- Key Points from Iran: A Modern History
- Key Points: Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge To American Primacy
- Key Points from Book – VALUES: BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR ALL
- Summer Trip to Gaspesie and Tadoussac, Quebec
- Six Years After: A Personal Reflection
- Key Points from Book: The Price of Peace
Tag Archives: key points
Key Points from Book: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
by Marcus Aurelius, translation by Gregory Hays Ancient philosophy certainly had its academic side. Athens and other large cities had publicly financed chairs of philosophy, and professional philosophers taught, argued and wrote, as they do today. But philosophy also had a … Continue reading
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Tagged book, key points, marcus aurelius, meditations, quote, stoic, summary, thoughts
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Key Points from Book: THE SPECTRE OF WAR: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM AND THE ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II
Russian invasion of Ukraine and the disparity between the West’s democratic mindset against autocratic regime have led to a surge in interesting discussion related to the conflicts surrounding it. In the book “The Spectre of War”, Jonathan Haslam tells a … Continue reading
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Tagged bolshevik, communism, history, ideology, jonathan haslam, key points, revolution, spectre of war, summary, world war
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Key Points from Books: Unraveled – The Life and Death of a Garment
During my Covid-related quarantine earlier this month, I stumbled into a fascinating book written by Maxine Bedat that tells the story of supply chain of a clothe that begins from a cotton farm in Texas, processed in countries such as … Continue reading
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Tagged book, clothing, consumerism, environmental, fast fashion, impact, key points, maxine bedat, review, summary, supply chain, sustainability, unraveled
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Key Points from Books: The Economist’s View of The World
As the year goes to an end and my book list is getting shorter, I thought I’d share another eye-opening book, for both economist and non-economist alike, written by Steven E. Rhoads. The version I’m reading was published in the … Continue reading
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Tagged books, economist, economy, key points, perspective, public policy, rational, steven rhoads, summary, view, world
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Key Points from Book: The Magic Money Tree and Other Economic Tales
by Forni Lorenzo My primary motivation for writing this book is that, all too often, economic policy seems to do harm and impose unnecessary costs on populations of many different countries. These costs result in the waste of scarce resources, … Continue reading
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Tagged book, budget, constraint, fiscalpolicy, forni lorenzo, key points, mmt, review, summary
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