List of wealthiest historical figures. The list of the wealthiest historical figures is an attempt to gather and compare the net-worth and fortunes of historical figures against one another.
Inflation and other factors devalue currency over time; economies of different regions over time periods; and economies' produced goods, commodities, and services over time. These fluctuations increase difficulty when accurately assessing and comparing fortunes from different decades, centuries, and especially millennia for the economy of any given State or region. Also, because several individuals and families never had their financial records revealed publicly and there are no contemporary estimates of their net-worth, several individuals could be omitted due to a lack of citable estimates of their net-worth.
Taiwan Miracle. The Taiwan Miracle (Chinese: 台灣奇蹟 or 臺灣奇蹟; pinyin: Táiwān Qíjì) or Taiwan Economic Miracle refers to the rapid industrialization and economic growth of Taiwan during the latter half of the twentieth century.
As it has developed alongside Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong, Taiwan became known as one of the "Four Asian Tigers". Background[edit] A land reform law, inspired by the same one that the Americans were enacting in occupied Japan, destroyed the landlord class (which also happened in Japan), and created a higher number of small peasants whom, with the help of the state, increased the agricultural output dramatically.
This was the first excedent accumulation source.[2] It inverted capital creation, and liberated the agricultural workforce to work in the urban sectors. However, the government imposed on the peasants an unequal exchange with the industrial economy, with credit and fertilizer controls and a non monetary exchange to trade agrarian products (machinery) for rice. The Intelligent Investor. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, first published in 1949, is a widely acclaimed book on value investing, an investment approach Graham began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd.
Famous investor Warren Buffett described it as "by far the best book on investing ever written",[1] a sentiment echoed by other Graham disciples such as Irving Kahn and Walter Schloss. Mr. Market[edit] The point of this anecdote is that the investor should not regard the whims of Mr.