10.5 · Macro, Systems & the Wider Board
Money & Wealth · 10.5
"Understanding other factors affecting finances — politics, world economics, wars, policies." My hierarchy asked for this explicitly.
How Asia Works
Why some Asian economies developed and others didn’t: land reform, export discipline, financial repression. The most useful economics book I can read as a Nepali who intends to build here — it explains what my country did and didn’t do, and why.
Deepen
Section titled “Deepen”The Changing World Order
Long-term debt cycles, reserve currencies, empires rising and falling. Exactly the frame my hierarchy describes wanting. Dalio’s pattern-matching is bold; treat it as a lens, not a prophecy.
Reference
Section titled “Reference”Poor Economics
Nobel-winning randomised fieldwork on how poverty actually behaves. Directly relevant to South Asia and to any business serving low-income customers.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Anthropology of money and obligation. Slow, contested by some economists, and genuinely assumption-breaking.