The Growth Map - First Impressions - Reading

More Holiday Loneliness

I've spoken before about the holidays being a time when people in education lose the motivation to work. So yeah... -_- Guess how much work I've completed today. But even ignoring that fact the holidays been good to me so far. I should however get on to Reading my book.

Yes, like any A-Level student knows, we have a load of Extra Reading. So my book I have to read for Business Studies this term;

  - The Growth Map -  by Jim O'Neill

Many of you know about my love for Economics and the wider world, so I suppose its unsurprising that I chose this book over a biography of some famous business person. As for the book itself, well, having read the first 2 chapters, I can say, its gone through a lot of build up. Many books have a back story so the reader can understand the situation and as someone who is acquainted with the topic but not the author it was interesting to see how his (and colleagues) idea has grown and the impact on their lives. However you do find yourself questioning how necessary the information is.

The book focuses on the BRIC countries and how they will shape our world economically as well as politically and socially. So far he has focused on the BRICs effect on the established countries, the G7 and how it will continue to shape the way trading blocks will interact. 

The Book looks promising in terms of the lessons it can teach me. For someone born after 1995 it has done a good job in explaining to me why China is not part of any major unions like the G7 and surprisingly taught me how successful Japan/ France/ Italy actually is (as opposed to what the UK Media will make you believe.)

So far, I'm placing this on a higher pedestal than the other Economic/ Finance book I read (The Logic of Life) However; with all future prediction books, they must be taken with a pinch of salt, especially from someone who worked for Goldman Sachs, but then again maybe I'm too critical. Especially considering the performance of his predictions so far.

Rating: 4/5 some points are worth taking notice of.

 - Well, there we go, now for the whole book
 - Are you ever going to do a full book review
 - Probably not
 - Then why bother
 - Because I can

So yeah... I'm making a habit of first impressions on Economic books, maybe I'll do more, if I have the time. It's unlikely, but we'll see.

Knowledge is our Greatest Weapon

-|CJ|-