From Silk to Silicon, Jeffrey E. Garten
From Silk to Silicon, Jeffrey E. Garten
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From Silk to Silicon
The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

Author: Jeffrey E. Garten

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Unabridged: 11 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2016

Synopsis

From Silk to Silicon tells the story of who these men and women were, what they did, how they did it, and how their achievements continue to shape our world today. They include:• Genghis Khan, who united east and west by conquest and by opening new trade routes built on groundbreaking transportation and management innovations.• Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who arose from oppression to establish the most powerful bank the world has seen.• Cyrus Field, who became the father of global communications by leading the effort to build the transatlantic telegraph, the forerunner to global radio, TV, and the worldwide Internet.• Margaret Thatcher, whose controversial policies opened the gusher of substantially free markets that linked economies across borders.• Andy Grove, a Hungarian refugee from the Nazis who built the company—Intel—that figured out how to manufacture complex computer chips on a mass, commercial scale.Through these stories Jeffrey E. Garten finds the common links between these figures and probes critical questions. From Silk to Silicon is an essential book to understanding the past—and the future—of the most powerful force of our times.

About Jeffrey E. Garten

Jeffrey E. Garten teaches courses on the global economy at the Yale School of Management, where he was formerly the dean. He has held senior positions in the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Clinton administrations, and was a managing director of Lehman Brothers and the Blackstone Group on Wall Street. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, BusinessWeek, and the Harvard Business Review, and he is the author of four previous books on global economics and politics.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charlene on January 22, 2018

Have you heard about the study in which judges give longer sentences to people who commit similar crimes, depending on whether or not the judge has had lunch yet? I feel like that happens with my book reviews sometimes. This is one of those times. I cannot quite be sure if this book was not as good......more

Goodreads review by Joel on April 10, 2016

(Note: I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads.) Sort of a shared biography, with one chapter each about 10 historical figures (ranging from Genghis Khan to more recent figures such as Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher) whose actions resulted in the world becoming more int......more

Goodreads review by Asad on October 09, 2017

"The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward." Winston Churchill The book was an amazing feast of history crammed into an entertaining book. The writer has chosen 10 men and women from throughout the history who in the course of their lives either intentionally or unintentionally......more

Goodreads review by N.L. on June 19, 2016

I tend to think that we are living in the most global age ever and my take on global government often harkens back to the science fiction books I have always enjoyed so much, so my construct tends to actually be governance of the galaxy. In The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov the Galactic Empire......more

Goodreads review by Anil on September 11, 2019

"The characters in this book do not validate the great man theory of history, as articulated in the nineteenth century historian Thomas Carlyle, who said, 'The history of the world is but the biography of great men'". Indeed. The book is about those that were not born to make history but made it. Ho......more

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