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I went to UVA and UNC. I work with tech driven businesses, used to work in investment banking, grew up in Oklahoma, and now live in Chapel Hill, NC with my family.
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Tulipomania is a disappointing telling of the story about Holland's tulip craze in the 1630's. The Tulipomania, as the craze is called, is an oft-cited example of a financial mania, one that has recently been brought up many times to be compared with the internet stock rage. In fact, that is one of the book's main obstacles to overcome, with the Tulipomania such a frequent topic of discussion, the book needed to provide more than a greater re-telling of the event. The book needed to describe in greater depth the true cause of the mania. It fails on both accounts. The book reads as if it was quickly (and poorly) written to capitalize on the resurgence of Tulipomania references in… Read more
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This is a truly outstanding book. Very rarely does one encounter a socio-economic book that has outstanding narration, solid historical perspectives, and clear, relevant data. Mr. de Soto's thesis is beautifully simple, "Extra legal activities, those activities that exist outside of (not necessarily against, such as illegal) the law, are a fundamental aspect of society. Those societies that have flourished (Europe, the US and developed Asia) are those that have broadened their legal sectors to incorporate and legalize those extra-legal activities." The author then goes on to demonstrate his point by focusing on property laws throughout the third world, documenting in fascinating detail… Read more
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This is a fun book to read. I had never heard of Mr. Forester or these novels, and when they came recommended to me over a short period of time from several different sources, I picked up this, the first in the series chronologically (we meet a young Hornblower as he first joins His Majesty's Navy) and had a very good time reading it. The book is a collection of short stories which occasionally build on each other. The writing is blunt and to the point, the action fast paced, the life-lessons brutally self-apparent, but they are put together in a very entertaining manner which creates quite an enjoyable book. I would compare the book to a historically placed Clive Cussler novel, or… Read more
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