"The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XKQ4636/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XKQ4636/ Great bo

"The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XKQ4636/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XKQ4636/ Great book, it directionally aligns Progress to accountability (really accounting). After reading the book, when I am in a big city I look up at the skyscrapers and think about how despite the web of vendors and people trying to defraud each other, some small amount of value manages to get diverted into a successful skyscraper, and this is made possible by accounting. Progress is an iterative prisoner's dilemma