A review by mikegray6
The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio

5.0

One of those books that makes me realize how little I know about anything, in particular about the broad topic of how nations become superpowers and why they fail. It was one of those history books that makes you think: how the F did I not know all of this before? I was shocked at how many similarities there were between global superpowers in the past. I think Dalio does an appropriate amount of caveating while sticking to his guns that these patterns are recognizable, similar, and likely to repeat. It really just makes sense and makes me wonder where the US and China are on this trajectory. I also learned a good bit about Chinese culture from their perspective, which is only going to become more important to understand in the coming decades.