This book’s full title is How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity. The start of this book is interesting in that he talks about how much effort we have to put in to get a source of artificial light going from wood fires to the electric light bulb.
Laurence B. Siegal at Advisor Perspectives has a great review of this book. Another good review is by Mourya Krishna on Medium.
A lot of the videos are really Podcasts, which I do not like. There is a podcast on The Next Big Idea Podcast. Andrew Leigh speaks his book of The Shortest History of Economics at The Sydney Institute. This is interesting where Gerard Henderson asks questions for Andrew Leigh to answer.
An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
The Age of the Strongman by Gideon Rachman
This book’s full title is The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World. In his epilogue, he ends saying that Durable political systems rely on institutions, not individuals. Successful societies are built on laws rather than charismatic leadership.
There are some interesting reviews on Good Reads. I liked the one by Adrian David. John Ikenberry on Foreign Affairs has his own take on Strongmen. The Literary Hub at Book Marks gives a variety of opinions about this book. And finally on Australian Institute of Internation Affairs John West gives an good review of this book.
Gideon Rachman speaks at the Aspen Institute España. His speech starts around 7.06 minutes in and ends around 25.12. Iain Martin interviews Gideon Rachman on his YouTube Reaction. This is from 2022. Gideon Rachman moderates a discussion at Intelligence Squared.
An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.
There are some interesting reviews on Good Reads. I liked the one by Adrian David. John Ikenberry on Foreign Affairs has his own take on Strongmen. The Literary Hub at Book Marks gives a variety of opinions about this book. And finally on Australian Institute of Internation Affairs John West gives an good review of this book.
Gideon Rachman speaks at the Aspen Institute España. His speech starts around 7.06 minutes in and ends around 25.12. Iain Martin interviews Gideon Rachman on his YouTube Reaction. This is from 2022. Gideon Rachman moderates a discussion at Intelligence Squared.
An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.
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