The Rise and Fall of Nations: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature Audiobook (Free)

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

Designed by his twenty-five years journeying 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 a large number of factors that can shape a country’s fortunes to ten clear rules, Sharma explains how to place political, economic, and social changes instantly. He shows how to browse political headlines, dark markets, the price tag on onions, and billionaire search rankings as signals of booms, busts, and protests.

Set in a post-crisis age group which has turned the world upside down updating fast growth with low development and political calm with revolt, Sharma’s pioneering reserve can be an entertaining field instruction to understanding change in this period or any period. “This effective, positive help for the practical observer and investor shows how to choose healthy emerging marketplaces…Evenhanded, measured, sage advice over the global economy.”-Kirkus Reviews