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18:00, 26 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page World Bank (Created page with " 200px|link=Media:The_Bank_of_Good_Intentions.epub '''The Bank of Good Intentions''': A book by Claude on a brief history of the World Bank Download e-book === References and Related === '''Related''': World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund")
17:59, 26 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:The Bank of Good Intentions.jpg (Book cover)
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17:54, 26 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page International Monetary Fund (Created page with " 200px|link=Media:Cap_in_Hand.epub '''Cap In Hand''': A book by Claude on a brief history of the IMF Download e-book === References and Related === '''Related''': World Bank, World Trade Organization")
17:53, 26 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:Cap in Hand.jpg (Book cover)
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17:51, 26 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:The Bank of Good Intentions.epub (Book about the history of the World Bank - written with Claude Opus 5.5)
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17:50, 26 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:Cap in Hand.epub (Book about the history of the World Bank - written with Claude Opus 5.5)
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17:38, 26 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:A Provisional Truce.jpg
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17:29, 26 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page World Trade Organization (Created page with "thumb")
17:29, 26 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:The Provisional Truce.epub
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15:55, 8 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:The Railway Mania of the 1840s (Created page with "=== Some key events and participants === * Stockton and Darlington - the world's first railway company to use steam locomotives. The first name that comes up when discussing the railway boom in England. The first line was opened in 1825. Would eventually get absorbed by another company in 1863 - after over-extending itself in new, and less productive, lines. * Overend, Gurney and company - A large bill discounting bank. Effective a banker to the bankers. Got sucked into...")
15:49, 8 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page The Railway Mania of the 1840s (Created page with "Britain’s railway boom of the 1840s was one of the first great infrastructure investment manias. Cheap money, rapidly falling construction costs, and the extraordinary success of the early railways triggered a frenzy of new companies and speculative investment. Thousands of miles of railway lines were proposed, often before there was any clear evidence that the traffic would justify them. The boom peaked around 1845, followed by a sharp collapse in railway share price...")
15:41, 8 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Story of a boom (Created page with "Every boom has a story. A new resource, technology, market, or idea creates a wave of investment and optimism, often pulling an entire economy along with it. Story of a Boom traces these episodes across countries and centuries, from the guano boom in Peru to railways in Argentina, copper in Chile, and industrialisation in Japan. The stories follow the boom from its origins through investment, speculation, prosperity, and eventually the reckoning that follows. See the...")
03:22, 7 October 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:Story of a boom (Created page with " == Peru == == Argentina == == Chile == == South Africa ==")
16:56, 27 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Broad political history of Japan (Created page with "=== The Broad Historical Arc === # '''1600–1868:''' Shogunate and relative isolation. # '''1868–1912:''' Centralization, modernization and emergence as an imperial power. # '''1912–1945:''' Parliamentary experimentation followed by military dominance and war. # '''1945–1952:''' Allied occupation and democratic reconstruction. # '''1952–1990:''' Stable LDP-led politics and rapid economic growth. # '''1990–present:''' Mature parliamentary democracy, economic st...")
08:45, 17 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:The-disappearing-spoon-book-cover.webp
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08:40, 17 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:Kochland-book-cover.jpg
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08:35, 17 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Category:Books (Created page with "<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> File:Alchemy-book-cover.jpg|link=Alchemy (Book)|Alchemy - Rory Sutherland File:Beating-the-street-peter-lynch-book-cover.jpg|link=Beating The Street (Book)|Beating the Street - Peter Lynch </gallery>")
08:31, 17 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:The Downfall of Money (Book) (Created page with "== Snippets == * It might have been wars between the great powers that ruined the twentieth century, but in the first years of the twenty-first it was arguably the lack of them. (unclear how) * Exploiting the Germans’ declared intention in February 1915 to wage unrestricted submarine warfare against Entente shipping in the North Sea, the British initiated a total ban on imports and exports of all kinds, to and from the territories of the Central Powers, includin...")
08:31, 17 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page The Downfall of Money (Book) (Created page with "{{StillToStart}} Category:Books")
08:30, 17 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page The Disappearing Spoon (Book) (Created page with "{{StillToStart}} Category:Books")
08:30, 17 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:The Disappearing Spoon (Book) (Created page with "== Snippets == * That, too, proved unhappy, so he fled to the newly conquered Philippines to work for the U.S. government, taking with him only one book, Nernst’s Theoretical Chemistry, so he could spend years rooting out and obsessively publishing papers on every quibbling error. (recommended reading: cathedrals of science) * Tantalus, Niobe’s father, killed his own son and served him at a royal banquet. As punishment, Tantalus had to stand for all eternity up to h...")
08:29, 17 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Kochland (Book) (Created page with "{{StillToStart}} Category:Books")
08:28, 17 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:Kochland (Book) (Created page with "=== Snippets === * In fact, while the world was looking elsewhere, Koch Industries built a financial trading desk that rivaled anything operated by Goldman Sachs or Lehman Brothers. Koch Industries, known for crude oil and natural gas, became a world leader in making and trading some of the most complex financial instruments in the world. ''(sounds a lot like enron around this time)'' * AFP chapters in New Jersey and elsewhere offered free chartered bus rides to protesto...")
08:09, 17 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:Hard Landing (Book) (Created page with "=== Snippets === * And so long as Air Southwest never stepped outside Texas, it could get a foot in the door by undercutting the established airlines, setting a fare below the official price established by the czars in Washington (sometimes, starting small is exactly the advantage you have. by being only a state level airline, Southwest was not subject to federal rules and could charge as little as they wanted and fly as many routes as they wanted. instead of the control...")
08:08, 17 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Hard Landing (Book) (Created page with "thumb|right|alt=Hard Landing (Book Cover) - Thomas Petzinger|Hard Landing - Thomas Petzinger === Snippets and Highlights ===")
08:07, 17 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:Hard-landing-book-cover.webp
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16:24, 16 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:Beating the Street (Book) (Created page with "=== Highlights === * The text is fortified with liberal doses of Peter’s Principles, such as the two you’ve already had to tolerate. Many of these lessons I’ve learned from experience, which is always an expensive teacher, so you’re getting them here at a discount. * It’s human nature to keep doing something as long as it’s pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to increase at a rapid rate. * You should i...")
16:24, 16 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Beating the Street (Book) (Created page with "thumb|right|alt=Beating the Street (Book Cover) - Peter Lynch|Beating the Street - Peter Lynch === Snippets and Highlights === <blockquote> This was the perfect scenario for the disciplined stockpicker to search his or her buy lists for likely prospects. The headlines were negative, the Dow Jones average had lost 600 points over the summer and the early fall, cabdrivers were recommending bonds, mutual-fund managers...")
16:20, 16 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:Beating-the-street-peter-lynch-book-cover.jpg
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16:20, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:Collapse of the French Ancien Regime (Created page with "=== Significant Events === * '''Proximate Cause''': The Estates General of 1789. This was a meeting of the three estates of pre-revolutionary France. The three estates being the clergy, the nobility, and the commons. The problem was that the finances of the French regime were a shambles. (cue: John Law and his scheme earlier in the century). The entire tax burden was on the commons, but the nobility and the clergy had a lot of benefits. Predictably, the commons revolted,...")
16:01, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Politics and Economics (Created page with " == Politics == === Historical Events === {{LinkEntry|Collapse of the French Ancien Regime}}")
15:54, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:Junkyard Planet (Book) (Created page with " tags PendingZettelkasten ◆ Introduction * The global recycling industry turns over as much as $500 billion annually—roughly equal to the GDP of Norway—and employs more people than any other industry on the planet except agriculture. * Wire insulation isn’t the highest quality plastic, but it’s good enough to make simple products like … slipper soles! These days, the biggest customers for Raymond’s Christmas tree insulation are slipper sole manufacturers....")
15:53, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Junkyard Planet (Book) (Created page with "thumb|right|alt=Junkyard Planet Book Cover|Junkyard Planet - Adam Minter === Snippets and Highlights ===")
15:52, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:Junkyard planet book cover.jpg
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15:21, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page File:Alchemy-book-cover.jpg
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15:19, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Alchemy (Book) (Created page with " === Snippets and Highlights === <blockquote> The late David Ogilvy, one of the greats of the American advertising industry and the founder of the company I work for, apparently once said, 'The trouble with market research is that people don’t think what they feel, they don’t say what they think, and they don’t do what they say.' </blockquote> <blockquote> Imagine you have ten roles to fill, and you ask ten colleagues to each hire one person. Obviously each perso...")
15:15, 15 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Talk:Alchemy (Book) (Created page with "=== Highlights from the book === ◆ Some Things Are Dishwasher-Proof, Others Are Reason-Proof * If you are wholly predictable, people learn to hack you. ◆ The Danger of Technocratic Elites * Perhaps a plausible ‘why’ should not be a pre-requisite in deciding a ‘what’, and the things we try should not be confined to those things whose future success we can most easily explain in retrospect. The record of science in some ways casts doubt on a scientific appr...")
05:33, 14 September 2026 Parijat talk contribs created page Weather Systems (Created page with "{{LinkEntry|El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)}} {{LinkEntry|Indian Ocean Dipole}} {{LinkEntry|North Atlantic Oscillation}} {{LinkEntry|Thermohaline Circulation}} {{LinkEntry|Humboldt Current}}")