Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Why Nations Succeed or Fail Hardcover

by Ray Dalio

Number of pages: 576

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

BBB Library: Booklets

ISBN: ‎ 978-1471196690



About the Author

Ray Dalio is the founder and co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates, which, over the last forty years, has become the largest and best performing hedge fund in the world. Dalio has appeared on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world as well as the Bloomberg Markets list of the 50 most influential people. He lives with his family in Connecticut

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Editorial Review

Through his book Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, Dalio brings readers along for his study of the major empires—including the Dutch, the British, and the American—putting into perspective the “Big Cycle” that has driven the successes and failures of all the world’s major countries throughout history. 

Book Reviews

"Four years ago, Ray Dalio threw at us a great big book of windy wisdom called “Principles.” He defined the title word as “fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life,” a definition that seemed to promise a great deal, given that the author was the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the planet’s biggest hedge fund. The book was a treatise on the means to a successful life, written by a man so accustomed to being “admired and, above all, consulted” that Mr. Dalio was apparently unfazed by his lack of expertise in ethics or philosophy."

“Ray Dalio has a special talent for identifying the key questions of our time. In this sweeping new book, he marshals a variety of economic, social, and political measures to trace the rise and decline of nations. It is a serious contribution—and an urgent warning to the West.”

"It is the most exciting book I have gotten my hands on in recent years. Ray Dalio, an extraordinarily successful financier, and I a scientist among many. Yet we are both driven by the aspiration to recognize what holds the political world together at its core or what drives it into ruin."

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Wisdom to Share

Evolution can be defined as the constant upward movement towards improvement that is driven by adaptation and learning.

Human productivity is the most important force that drives the world’s slow but steady improvement in its total wealth, power, and living standards, and it itself has improved over time.

Good human capital and self-sufficiency come when humans have the capacity to produce more than they consume.

If you have an understanding of your own income, expenses, and savings,you can apply it to other people, you will have a better understanding of the whole picture.

Powerful countries rule when individual countries hold more power than the collective.

The world order follows the law of the jungle more than international law.

Although debt eats up equity, central banks can feed it by printing more money, instead.

The decline is a painful period of change and conflict that leads to the establishment of new orders, both internal and external.

Time has shown that the formula for success is a system where well-educated people can compete with each other in a civil manner in order to invent and receive their funding through capital markets.

Productivity improves at different rates for different people, for reasons like the quality of a person’s education,inventiveness, work ethic, and economic situation.

Books by the same Author

Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals. Here, from a man who
Principles

Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals. Here, from a man who