Bestsellers
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Misbehaving
- The Making of Behavioral Economics
- De: Richard H. Thaler
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals....
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Great book if it's your first about Behav. Econ
- De Jay Friedman en 09-30-15
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Titan
- The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- De: Ron Chernow
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 35 h y 3 m
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Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....
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He makes Bill Gates look like a Pauper!
- De Rick en 11-04-13
De: Ron Chernow
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- De: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- De Joshua Kim en 05-01-12
De: Daron Acemoglu, y otros
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When Money Dies
- The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany
- De: Adam Fergusson
- Narrado por: Antony Ferguson
- Duración: 9 h
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When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nations currency depreciates beyond recovery....
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Useless details, missing the big points
- De Jean Le Lupi en 07-04-12
De: Adam Fergusson
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The Big Short
- Inside the Doomsday Machine
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Jesse Boggs
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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Michael Lewis intelligently - and humorously - explains the current economic crisis in The Big Short....
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Informative and Engaging
- De Jay en 03-23-10
De: Michael Lewis
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Economics in One Lesson
- De: Henry Hazlitt
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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Called by H.L. Mencken, "one of the few economists in history who could really write," Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliant but concise work....
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The truth about Economics
- De Captain Amazing! en 02-01-03
De: Henry Hazlitt
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Misbehaving
- The Making of Behavioral Economics
- De: Richard H. Thaler
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals....
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Great book if it's your first about Behav. Econ
- De Jay Friedman en 09-30-15
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Titan
- The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- De: Ron Chernow
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 35 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....
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He makes Bill Gates look like a Pauper!
- De Rick en 11-04-13
De: Ron Chernow
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- De: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- De Joshua Kim en 05-01-12
De: Daron Acemoglu, y otros
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When Money Dies
- The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany
- De: Adam Fergusson
- Narrado por: Antony Ferguson
- Duración: 9 h
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When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nations currency depreciates beyond recovery....
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Useless details, missing the big points
- De Jean Le Lupi en 07-04-12
De: Adam Fergusson
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The Big Short
- Inside the Doomsday Machine
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Jesse Boggs
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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Michael Lewis intelligently - and humorously - explains the current economic crisis in The Big Short....
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Informative and Engaging
- De Jay en 03-23-10
De: Michael Lewis
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Economics in One Lesson
- De: Henry Hazlitt
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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Called by H.L. Mencken, "one of the few economists in history who could really write," Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliant but concise work....
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The truth about Economics
- De Captain Amazing! en 02-01-03
De: Henry Hazlitt
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How Innovation Works
- And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
- De: Matt Ridley
- Narrado por: Matt Ridley
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society....
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Bad scholarship and bias that overwhelms his facts
- De RickyF en 07-01-20
De: Matt Ridley
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Technofeudalism
- What Killed Capitalism
- De: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrado por: Yanis Varoufakis
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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Big tech has replaced capitalism's twin pillars—markets and profit—with its platforms and rents. With every click and scroll, we labor like serfs to increase its power....
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Difficulty grasping narrator’s accent
- De Wendy en 07-27-24
De: Yanis Varoufakis
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Evil Geniuses
- The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
- De: Kurt Andersen
- Narrado por: Kurt Andersen
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
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When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change - and charts a way back to the future....
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History through a far left lens
- De Josh en 09-03-20
De: Kurt Andersen
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The Smartest Guys in the Room
- The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
- De: Bethany McLean
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 22 h y 30 m
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The definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters....
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An excellent book, but with a missing chapter
- De Augustus T. White en 03-07-12
De: Bethany McLean
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When McKinsey Comes to Town
- The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
- De: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world....
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Shows systemic problems in McKinsey's culture
- De GA en 10-15-22
De: Walt Bogdanich, y otros
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- De: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 24 h y 58 m
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In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....
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The Financial Times' Critique Doesn't Detract
- De Madeleine en 05-22-14
De: Thomas Piketty, y otros
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The Rational Optimist
- How Prosperity Evolves
- De: Matt Ridley
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. The pessimists insist that we will reach a turning point and things will get worse. But they have been saying this for 200 years....
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Personal
- De Robert F. Jones en 09-15-17
De: Matt Ridley
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The Lords of Easy Money
- How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
- De: Christopher Leonard
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press....
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Pointless book
- De Darrin en 02-23-22
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Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises
- De: Ray Dalio
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
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Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles—whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide—shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well....
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Interesting book
- De Mark en 02-06-23
De: Ray Dalio
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What Went Wrong with Capitalism
- De: Ruchir Sharma
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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A century of expanding government has distorted financial markets, stoked massive inequality, and soaked America in debt. Capitalism didn’t fail, it was ruined. What went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma’s account is not like any you will have heard before.
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Dealing with the truth
- De JC en 07-28-24
De: Ruchir Sharma
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California Burning
- The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—and What It Means for America's Power Grid
- De: Katherine Blunt
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Pacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning, Wall Street Journal reporter and Pulitzer finalist Katherine Blunt examines how that legacy fell apart....
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Best book I've read this year.
- De Constance L. Gehrt en 10-21-23
De: Katherine Blunt
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 14 h y 50 m
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These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues....
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The Best Book By The Smartest Guy in the Room
- De Dave en 10-20-11
De: Thomas Sowell
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The Four
- The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
- De: Scott Galloway
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. They're wrong....
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Pessimistic and narrow minded
- De Patrick en 01-19-18
De: Scott Galloway
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The Shock Doctrine
- The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- De: Naomi Klein
- Narrado por: Jennifer Wiltsie
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
- Versión resumida
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The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq....
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If It's Bad for Humanity, It's Good for Business
- De Nelson Alexander en 09-29-07
De: Naomi Klein
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Nothing Down for the 2000s
- Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate
- De: Robert G. Allen
- Narrado por: John Dossett
- Duración: 4 h y 22 m
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Real estate remains the only reliable investment in which profits can be made consistently....
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not bad
- De Carlos en 01-21-08
De: Robert G. Allen
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The Two-Parent Privilege
- How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
- De: Melissa S. Kearney
- Narrado por: Cait Raymond
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a data-driven case for marriage by showing how the institution's decline has led to a host of economic woes—problems that have fractured American society and rendered vulnerable populations even more vulnerable.
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Get the printed or ebook version!
- De Wayne en 03-10-24
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Palo Alto
- A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
- De: Malcolm Harris
- Narrado por: Patrick Harrison
- Duración: 28 h y 20 m
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Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and materially ambitious and demonstrably world-changing....
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Yes, it's Marxist. it's also good.
- De Alex halladay en 02-15-23
De: Malcolm Harris
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Check Your Financial Privilege
- De: Alex Gladstein
- Narrado por: Guy Swann
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Alex Gladstein has a lot to say about Bitcoin, human rights, financial privilege, and personal freedom....
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An extremely important piece of work!
- De Jess James Jones Liljeholmens Kiropraktor Klinik en 06-16-23
De: Alex Gladstein
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
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More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....
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Fascinating Mindbending History.
- De Betsy Powel en 12-19-11
De: Charles C. Mann
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Too Big to Fail
- The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
- De: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 21 h y 4 m
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A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter....
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Best Book About Meltdown
- De Chuck en 12-08-09
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Against the Gods
- The Remarkable Story of Risk
- De: Peter L. Bernstein
- Narrado por: Mike Fraser
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past.
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Glad it finally got here
- De bda31175 en 10-16-21
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Fantasyland
- How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
- De: Kurt Andersen
- Narrado por: Kurt Andersen
- Duración: 19 h y 35 m
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A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland....
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Bland Title For An Amazing Book!
- De David Larson en 09-07-17
De: Kurt Andersen
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The History of Money
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives....
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Interesting annecdotes, but very biased reporting
- De Dean en 10-13-11
De: Jack Weatherford
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Growth
- A History and a Reckoning
- De: Daniel Susskind
- Narrado por: Daniel Susskind
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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Economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the rise of vast inequalities, and destabilizing technologies.
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Clear and concise
- De Andrew en 06-13-24
De: Daniel Susskind
Nuevos lanzamientos
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Against the Gods
- The Remarkable Story of Risk
- De: Peter L. Bernstein
- Narrado por: Mike Fraser
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today.
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Glad it finally got here
- De bda31175 en 10-16-21
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
- The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
- De: Daina Ramey Berry
- Narrado por: Pippa Vos
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives—including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the senior years, and death—in the early American domestic slave trade.
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Milton Friedman on Economics
- Selected Papers
- De: Milton Friedman, Gary S. Becker -afterword by
- Narrado por: Kyle Snyder
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers collects a variety of Friedman's papers on topics in economics that were originally published in the Journal of Political Economy. Opening with Friedman's 1977 Nobel Lecture, the volume spans nearly the whole of his career, incorporating papers from as early as 1948 and as late as 1990. An excellent introduction to Friedman's economic thought, Milton Friedman will be essential for anyone tracing the course of twentieth-century economics and politics.
De: Milton Friedman, y otros
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The Outline of Sanity
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Seth Trey
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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The experiments of both Capitalism and Communism are almost complete, and they both lead to one big organization controlling everything you do. In 1925, when this book was first published, it was true, and it is even truer today.
De: G. K. Chesterton
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Visions of Inequality
- From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
- De: Branko Milanovic
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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Visions of Inequality takes us from Quesnay and the physiocrats, for whom social classes were prescribed by law, through the classic nineteenth-century treatises of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, who saw class as a purely economic category driven by means of production. It shows how Pareto reconceived class as a matter of elites versus the rest of the population, while Kuznets saw inequality arising from the urban-rural divide. And it explains why inequality studies were eclipsed during the Cold War, before their remarkable resurgence as a central preoccupation in economics today.
De: Branko Milanovic
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How to Cripple a Currency
- 10 Methods to Devalue Money (Backwards Blueprints)
- De: Connor Boyack
- Narrado por: Connor Boyack
- Duración: 1 h y 37 m
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Most people want to save their hard-earned income to support their family and one day be able to retire. Yet this desire is a dream for many whose currency is being devalued. How can we—how can you—actually preserve our wealth for the future? Sometimes the best way to learn a truth is to explore its antithesis. Just as darkness helps us better comprehend light, perhaps we can better understand how to protect our savings by considering how we might do the opposite.
De: Connor Boyack
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Against the Gods
- The Remarkable Story of Risk
- De: Peter L. Bernstein
- Narrado por: Mike Fraser
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today.
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Glad it finally got here
- De bda31175 en 10-16-21
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
- The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
- De: Daina Ramey Berry
- Narrado por: Pippa Vos
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives—including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the senior years, and death—in the early American domestic slave trade.
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Milton Friedman on Economics
- Selected Papers
- De: Milton Friedman, Gary S. Becker -afterword by
- Narrado por: Kyle Snyder
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers collects a variety of Friedman's papers on topics in economics that were originally published in the Journal of Political Economy. Opening with Friedman's 1977 Nobel Lecture, the volume spans nearly the whole of his career, incorporating papers from as early as 1948 and as late as 1990. An excellent introduction to Friedman's economic thought, Milton Friedman will be essential for anyone tracing the course of twentieth-century economics and politics.
De: Milton Friedman, y otros
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The Outline of Sanity
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Seth Trey
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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The experiments of both Capitalism and Communism are almost complete, and they both lead to one big organization controlling everything you do. In 1925, when this book was first published, it was true, and it is even truer today.
De: G. K. Chesterton
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Visions of Inequality
- From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
- De: Branko Milanovic
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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Visions of Inequality takes us from Quesnay and the physiocrats, for whom social classes were prescribed by law, through the classic nineteenth-century treatises of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, who saw class as a purely economic category driven by means of production. It shows how Pareto reconceived class as a matter of elites versus the rest of the population, while Kuznets saw inequality arising from the urban-rural divide. And it explains why inequality studies were eclipsed during the Cold War, before their remarkable resurgence as a central preoccupation in economics today.
De: Branko Milanovic
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How to Cripple a Currency
- 10 Methods to Devalue Money (Backwards Blueprints)
- De: Connor Boyack
- Narrado por: Connor Boyack
- Duración: 1 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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Most people want to save their hard-earned income to support their family and one day be able to retire. Yet this desire is a dream for many whose currency is being devalued. How can we—how can you—actually preserve our wealth for the future? Sometimes the best way to learn a truth is to explore its antithesis. Just as darkness helps us better comprehend light, perhaps we can better understand how to protect our savings by considering how we might do the opposite.
De: Connor Boyack
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Shock Values
- Prices and Inflation in American Democracy
- De: Carola Binder
- Narrado por: Ann Richardson
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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A sweeping history of the United States' economy and politics, Shock Values reveals how the American state has been shaped by a massive, ever-evolving effort to insulate its economy from the real and perceived dangers of price fluctuations. Carola Binder narrates how the pains of rising and falling prices have brought lasting changes for every generation of Americans. And with each brush with price instability, the United States has been reinvented—not as a more perfect union, but as a reflection of its most recent failures.
De: Carola Binder
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Things Seen and Things Not Seen
- De: Frederic Bastiat
- Narrado por: Christopher Crennen
- Duración: 1 h y 8 m
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Bastiat considers the value of a broken window in promoting industry; the value of armies, public works, and government credit guarantees in increasing employment; the danger that better machinery poses to employment; the use of tariffs to protect industry, and other economic fallacies.
De: Frederic Bastiat
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The Constitution of Liberty
- The Definitive Edition
- De: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
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The Constitution of Liberty is considered Hayek's classic statement on the ideals of freedom and liberty, ideals that he believes have guided - and must continue to guide - the growth of Western civilization. Here, Hayek defends the principles of a free society, casting a skeptical eye on the growth of the welfare state and examining the challenges to freedom posed by an ever-expanding government.
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very detailed and important
- De Big Kyle 570 en 06-17-20
De: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, y otros
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Common Sense 2.0
- Freeing America of Debt Slavery
- De: Thomas Paine
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 1 h y 49 m
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We must end debt slavery The United States began a depression in 1920 just after the end of World War I. Millions of jobs were lost, thousands of companies went bankrupt while the government provided no support to anyone. That depression lasted eighteen months. Another depression began in 1929. This time the government stepped in and provided assistance to business to give support to the twenty-five per cent of Americans who had lost their jobs and were on hard times. As a result of massive government involvement this depression lasted a dozen years and needed a new World War to get the ...
De: Thomas Paine
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Fear City
- New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
- De: Kim Phillips-Fein
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable.
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Thanks for writing this book!!
- De G. A. Rivera en 08-14-21
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The Currency of Empire
- Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America
- De: Jonathan Barth
- Narrado por: John Harrison Gass
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
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In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation.
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The Fork in the Road
- How America Chose Reagan over McGovern
- De: Thomas Winterbottom
- Narrado por: Eric M. Jordan
- Duración: 29 m
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This book explores the notion that America had a chance to further the development of its welfare state in the 1972 American presidential election with George McGovern, but would eventually settle for a complete denial of this ambition with the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan.
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American Colossus
- The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 23 h y 29 m
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In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power.
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8 Thoughts on 'American Colossus'
- De Joshua Kim en 06-10-12
De: H. W. Brands
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- De: Frank Dikötter
- Narrado por: Daniel York Loh
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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Through decades of direct experience of the People’s Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People’s Trilogy offers a riveting account of China’s rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to industrial metropoles and elite party conclaves--that vaulted the nation from 126t largest economy in the world to second largest.
De: Frank Dikötter
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A Little History of Economics
- De: Niall Kishtainy
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone, yet the unfamiliar jargon and math of economics can seem daunting. This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young listeners new to economics and to all listeners who seek a better understanding of the full sweep of economic history and ideas.
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Biggest big ideas, paced nicely in history stories
- De Philo en 06-20-18
De: Niall Kishtainy
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Great American Outpost
- Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier
- De: Maya Rao
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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A lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten corner of the American West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism. As North Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil producer, Maya Rao set out in steel-toe boots to join a wave of drifters, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and criminals. With an eye for the dark, absurd, and humorous, Rao fearlessly immersed herself in their world to chronicle this modern-day gold rush, from its heady beginnings to OPEC's price war against the US oil industry.
De: Maya Rao
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The Wages of Whiteness
- Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
- De: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.
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A Great Book
- De David B. en 10-16-20
De: David R. Roediger, y otros
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism
- A Warning to the Global Middle Class
- De: Joel Kotkin
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last 70 years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times.
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Pretty good but not a lot new
- De ClothingMonster en 01-25-21
De: Joel Kotkin
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Nothing Is Too Big to Fail
- How the Last Financial Crisis Informs Today
- De: Kerry Killinger, Linda Killinger
- Narrado por: Gary Bennett
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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In 2008, the American economy collapsed, taking with it millions of Americans' jobs, homes, and life savings. The impending financial crisis was devastating, and many are still feeling its effects today. Though the crisis was debilitating, the US government has yet to implement policies that would prevent a repeat of the Great Recession. Nothing Is Too Big to Fail holds a microscope to the very policies and corruption that led to this major economic recession.
De: Kerry Killinger, y otros
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- De: Walter Scheidel
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 17 h y 31 m
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Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
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- De Varun en 02-10-18
De: Walter Scheidel
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Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
- De: Philip S. Foner, Robin D.G. Kelley - foreword
- Narrado por: Brad Sanders
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In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of black workers’ contribution to the American labor movement.
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Amazon labor Union
- De Michy en 01-27-23
De: Philip S. Foner, y otros
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Tower of Basel
- The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
- De: Adam LeBor
- Narrado por: John Mawson
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Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world’s most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and in-depth interviews with key decision-makers including Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve; Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England; and former senior Bank for International Settlements managers and officials.
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Such enthralling true information
- De Joe Leiman en 12-24-18
De: Adam LeBor
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Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future
- De: Cormac Ó Gráda
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac Ó Gráda, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging audiobook, which provides crucial new perspectives on key questions raised by famines around the globe between the 17th and 21st centuries.
De: Cormac Ó Gráda
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A Century of Wealth in America
- De: Edward N. Wolff
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 22 h y 38 m
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Understanding wealth in the United States - who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it - is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff, one of the world's great experts on the economics of wealth, offers an authoritative account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of wealth since 1900. A Century of Wealth in America demonstrates that the most remarkable change has been the growth of per capita household wealth.
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Detailed Statistically Reasoned Analysis
- De Ziggy en 07-06-19
De: Edward N. Wolff
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The Hellhound of Wall Street
- How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
- De: Michael Perino
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
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In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash. Never before in American history had so many financial titans been called to account before the public, and they had come within a few weeks of emerging unscathed. By the time Ferdinand Pecora, a Sicilian immigrant and former New York prosecutor, took over as chief counsel, the investigation had dragged on ineffectively for nearly a year and was universally written off as dead....
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Great Story
- De Lynn en 03-22-11
De: Michael Perino
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Money Well Spent?
- The Truth behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History
- De: Michael Grabell
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administration’s handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obama’s “audacity of hope” met the austerity of reality. Central to this is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - the largest economic recovery plan in American history. Senator Mitch McConnell gave a taste of the enormity of the money committed: if you had spent $1 million a day since Jesus was born, it still would not add up to the price tag of the stimulus package.
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book well researched
- De Steven Schuster en 03-03-12
De: Michael Grabell
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The Age of Equality
- The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective
- De: Richard Pomfret
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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In 1900 the global average life expectancy at birth was 31 years. By 2000 it was 66. Yet, alongside unprecedented improvements in longevity and material well-being, the 20th century also saw the rise of fascism and communism and a second world war followed by a cold war. This book tells the story of the battles between economic systems that defined the last century and created today's world. The 19th century was a period of rapid economic growth, but it also brought great inequality.
De: Richard Pomfret
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A Splendid Exchange
- How Trade Shaped the World
- De: William J. Bernstein
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
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In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today. He transports listeners from ancient sailing ships that brought the silk trade from China to Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in spices in the 16th.
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Very interesting and Germane to Today's World
- De Mark en 07-18-08
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The Company
- A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea [Modern Library Chronicles]
- De: John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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In The Company, the largely unknown history of the joint-stock company is presented by the editors of Economist. One of history's greatest catalysts, the joint-stock company has dramatically changed the way human beings live, work, and conduct business. With companies now affecting the world on a global scale, it is more pressing than ever before to understand this driving force.
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unique history with a unique perspective
- De D. Littman en 10-31-05
De: John Micklethwait, y otros