This book provides a unique perspective on understanding how to predict and spot political, economic and social changes. Through ten clear rules, the author provides an overview of what factors can shape a country’s future. This book would be a good read for anyone interested in economics or politics, as it uses real-time examples to demonstrate these ten principles. It also helps readers read and interpret headlines, black markets, and billionaire rankings in order to stay on top of current economic trends.

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Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, 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 ten 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 post-crisis age that has turned the world upside down, replacing fast growth with slow growth and political calm with revolt, Sharma's pioneering book is an entertaining field guide to understanding change in this era or any era.

A Library Journal Best Book of 2016