The Rise and Fall of Nations

Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

De: Ruchir Sharma

Narrado por: William Hughes

This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change.

Shaped by his 25 years traveling the world and enlivened by encounters with tycoons, presidents, and villagers from Rio to Beijing, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the "dismal science" of economics as a practical art.

Narrowing the thousands of factors that can shape a country's fortunes to 10 clear rules, Sharma explains how to spot political, economic, and social changes in real time. He shows how to read political headlines, black markets, the price of onions, and billionaire rankings as signals of booms, busts, and protests.

Set in a postcrisis age that has turned the world upside down, replacing fast growth with low growth and political calm with revolt, Sharma's pioneering book is an entertaining field guide to understanding change in this era or any era.

©2016 Ruchir Sharma (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Very insightful

Loved it. Narrator was excellent. The author very knowledgeable. Gave me a lot of comfort in saying 'this too shall pass' Nations really do rise and fall.

great review of world economy

Excellent review of world's economy up to march 2016. The author doesn't presume to have a cristal ball to foresee the future, instead it presents a set of rules to understand in which way they'll be going in the next 5 years.

Excellent

Great book, a very precise panorama of post crisis world and accurate forecast of the years to come.

Great read!

this was a great book . very insightful with a lot of very logical and thoughtout reasoning. a must read for any one interested in the economy or stock market.

Brilliant!

Sharma presents and extremely insightful and contemporary world view of global economics. He has taken an extremely complex subject matter dissects it and explains it in a very comprehensive and understandable way. Genius.

Great audiobook

Tried renting this book from library, and was interesting but full of details that were hard to digest while reading. The audiobook though is very well done and allows you to get the big picture while also digesting the details of the content. Highly recommend.

must read for anyone in investing

for any serious investor, this is must read. great perspective on most of the economies.

Highly recommended book

I rarely recommend books, this book is very rich with economic information and talks about the recent events.

Worth it

Ton of useful information. Can be organized better.

Great book. Statistics backed. Organization felt a little haphazard and themes were hard to follow.

Tons of data but themes rise above.

The data is probably too rich for the audio format unless you read along with the supplemental material (I did not). But the themes, if you understand basic economics and have a good sense of geopolitics, rise above the noise level of the data stream. Somewhat dated (2016) but forecasts are for a 5 year window.