New books read recently

Ranked from * (boring) to *** (smashing):

1. The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin **
2. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President by Ron Suskind ***
3. God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens***
4. Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy by Martin Lindstrom ***

TIGER seminar on Doing Business in Poland

On December 14, 2011, I delivered a presentation on "Doing Business in Poland" within the TIGER Seminar Series.

Conference "The World and Europe in 2030"

I gave a speech on "The Inexorable Rise of Chimerica and its Implications for the Global Economic Order" as part of a conference organized by TIGER on December 8, 2011 within an EU-funded project AUGUR.

The background paper is available here. An updated paper will be available online soon.