The trend of increasing commodity prices that lasted for about 10 years between 2003 and 2012 has given way to lower global prices. It is now widely believed that prices will remain relatively low in the medium term, as growth in emerging economies has decelerated and, in general, commodity...

Introduction -- Persistance -- Battlefield entrepreneurs -- The people of the book -- Harvard, Princeton and Yale -- Where rigid order meets random chaos -- Leap-frog : a short history of economic policy -- Immigration : the google guys' challenge -- Diaspora : stealing airplanes -- The buffett...