Engines that move markets

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• nvartolomei · Jan 11, 2025 · Recommends

  *Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond* by Alasdair G. M. Nairn I’ve had a few aha moments while reading this book. Although it's primarily written from an investor's perspective,…

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• stonlyb · Jan 12, 2025 · Recommends

  …84. Longitude by Dava Sobel 85. Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg 86. The Last Viking - A biography of Roald Amundsen 87. The Wager by David Grann 88. Simply Fly by Captain G. R. Gopinath 89. Engines That Move Markets by Alasdair G. M. Nairn 90. The Education of Cyrus by Xenophon 91. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram 92. Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton 93. How…

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• hogFeast · Jan 19, 2020 · Recommends

  Engines that move markets by Alisdair Nairn

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• hogFeast · Sep 18, 2019 · Recommends

  …book aimed at investors that actually looks at this effect at large (i.e. what is the relationship between technology and markets? why actually works? what has happened in these situations before? etc.): Engines that Move Markets. One book. A million books about speculation and bubbles...but how many books about actual markets, actual technology, and actual investment...one. The closest is possibly Capital Returns and Capital…

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• Fade_Dance · Sep 7, 2025 · Mentions

  …bubbles burst, leading firms often give way to upstarts. “The biggest and most successful lighting companies all experienced a change of control when cashflow became an issue,” wrote Alasdair Nairn in “Engines That Move Markets”, a history of the late 19th century. Many firms that dominated the early days of railways, the telegraph and the telephone were also quickly supplanted. Who now remembers Vulcatron, from America’s electronics…

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• creddit · Jan 21, 2025 · Mentions

  …biggest question on such investment from my POV, is what do the Deepseek results mean about the usefulness/efficiency of this investment? I've been meaning to read a relevant book to today's times called Engines That Move Markets. Will probably get it from the library.

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