Empire Of Things

He meticulously tracks all 3,000 odd owners of company shares in 1773 and a ten percent sample of stock accounts for various years from 1756 to 1830. He profiles changes in the size of the holding, the owners’ social titles by gender, and the geographic distribution of the owners’ places of residence. The absence of investors hailing from the Bristol, Glasgow, and Liverpool underscore the availability of alternatives investment opportunities. As Britain’s diverse, maritime economy thrived, the East India Company’s economic significance diminished. And yes, it was fascinating and not actually heavy in the writing, if serious in the topics. I value this book for its honesty and the information it provides which is definitely extra to the history I learned at school, and its insight into modern British culture.

Hoefflinger worked himself up the latter, eventually becoming Intel’s General Manager of Worldwide Partner Marketing. He continued his career at Facebook for seven years as the Director of Global Business Marketing. Currently, he serves as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at XSeed Capital, a speaker, and advisor to startups and entrepreneurs entering the tech market.

In the book’s wayward conceit, consumerism is a totalitarian device used to control people and their artificial wants. Fired up by dreams of wealth, Brooklanders indulge in Black Friday-style bargain hunting in their local Metro-Centre. Yes, done well, as this one is, the mix of the personal and political is very hard-hitting yet also relatable. There will be a few more social justice and race books coming up through this month and July, although I’m reading one on trans lives right now, as I decided to pick out a certain number of books about people different to myself for my 20 Books of Summer.

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The prices and ownership of East India Company shares play a special role in the narrative. The author uses movements in the company’s share price and turnover as a metaphor for the relationship between the company and the state. The company’s share prices, Bowen suggests, were driven by speculation and factional politics among company shareholders. By implication, these factors also shaped the company’s relationship with the state. That insider trading and stock-splitting occurred during the 1760s is certainly undisputed. This does not imply, as the author asserts, that share prices best illustrate the company’s “defining institutional characteristics.” Such a creative interpretation of historical share prices is out of synch with the high degree of scholarship elsewhere in the volume.

During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away to charities, foundations, and universities about $350 million (in 2011, $225 billion) – almost 90 percent of his fortune. His 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and it stimulated a wave of philanthropy. It is trapped by expectations of profits that are unsustainable. Left-leaning elements of the Catholic church continue to condemn “conspicuous consumption” and the inequalities attendant on the retail sales boom. John XXIII denounced consumerist values in his 1963 encyclical Pacem in terris as anti-communitarian.

As viewers and readers, we must read and see Babur in his times. Today, each side claims to have the 'right' history and pervade its versions to the current times to satiate egos of supremacy, often forgetting that we are in a Andrew Carnegie different universe now. A Harvard student and programming prodigy, Mark Zuckerberg, created a social networking site for his fellow students at thefacebook.com. The site would have more than 1,000 students in one day and half of the undergraduate population in a month. The site grew like wildfire beyond its humble beginnings to other schools and high schools.

It is these ports, sometimes little more than a fortress on a headland, which stitched the Venetian empire together, and their exploration fills the majority of Morris’ book. The Dalmatian coast, riddled with pirate dens, the Peloponnese, girded by castles, Crete, Cyprus, and the Ionian islands–all are described with brilliant detail. Speaking of Game of Thrones, did I mention that this 7 book series has already been completed and fully published?