The book literally charts the relationship between providers of capital, middlemen, and consumers of capital in the West, returning to the theme nine times; but Chernow never actually lays this out on one page, so I've done it for you before below.

To talk about that power is to acknowledge that it exists. This is not what most people want to hear!

How should we approach the tradeoff between cost and privacy presented by supermarket loyalty cards?

What’s the most efficient way to simplify the flow of money across the world?

Interactive R Shiny apps to visualise the global remittance network.

How Klarna uses selection bias to claim artificially high results for businesses.

Playing language games with Kenny G, Anakin Skywalker, and Quentin Skinner.

How can we filter out the nodes which don't matter, while maintaining interesting properties of the network as a whole? How can we find some simplicity in this complexity?

One doesn't have to think hard to imagine climate protesters declaring that "I am morality itself and nothing else is moral!"

A novel approach to quantifying the slave trade.

“It seems to me that Ford did what would be the right thing according to your policy, and yet that seems to me to be very wrong.”

“Would it not be better to proceed by way of force rather than, in wishing to preserve the way of law, to lose the laws together with the state?”

Could or even should humanity spend 10,000 years deciding on its future? Some of Oxford’s leading professors seem to think so…

A grand narrative built on a shaky foundation.

Proposing a way to classify thinkers.

Talking about tragedy — in order to prevent the next one.

We have to be able to separate the literal and political interpretations of slogans; semiotics tells us how.

What does a Pixar film have to do with French literature? Quite a lot, it turns out.

What’s so fascinating about the Lombard warrior, whose tale was told by Jorge Luis Borges?