How Countries Go BrokeNew · Nonfiction, Business
How Countries Go Broke
2025 · 400 pages · Nonfiction
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 10 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
56.8Must-Read Score
- Readers20 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Bestseller34 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 10%
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero. The parts combine into the Must-Read Score, shown on a scale where the best book we found scores 99 and the last book to make the ranking scores 50.
Where it ranks
- #82 of the 85 self-help and business books we rank
- #443 of the 481 new books we rank
- #2624 of the 2,816 books we rank
Why it made the list
Bestseller
#1 New York Times bestseller (1 week at #1)
Reads as
Practical
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