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A review by jameshendrickson
The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio
5.0
Wow! This book is amazing in the wholistic approach to the world that it takes.
Everyone should read this to get a glimpse of the long game of history.
This is THE book to read to get started in really understanding the world. There are lots of history books and lots of economics books and very few cover a fully macro view of the world and none that I’ve found cover the convergence of the two let alone from someone who has helped to shape the last 50 years of both.
I don’t see the flaws that other reviewers have pointed out (like the end of the gold standard in the US…you can point to a few different ends under a few different Presidents and Dalio even points this out). Even if there are errors the larger themes of the book is incredibly important.
This is far better than his first book, which was very good. For those that are chronological readers there is glory in starting with Dalio’s second book.
Everyone should read this to get a glimpse of the long game of history.
This is THE book to read to get started in really understanding the world. There are lots of history books and lots of economics books and very few cover a fully macro view of the world and none that I’ve found cover the convergence of the two let alone from someone who has helped to shape the last 50 years of both.
I don’t see the flaws that other reviewers have pointed out (like the end of the gold standard in the US…you can point to a few different ends under a few different Presidents and Dalio even points this out). Even if there are errors the larger themes of the book is incredibly important.
This is far better than his first book, which was very good. For those that are chronological readers there is glory in starting with Dalio’s second book.