Economic Social History

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    • The Bubble That Never Pops
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Orlik
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 7 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping, the real estate sector doomed to collapse, the factories fated for bankruptcy....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
    • Auteur(s): Thom Hartmann
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
    • Série: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Durée: 3 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality....

    Prix courant: 17,17$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation
    • Auteur(s): Leslie T. Chang
    • Narrateur(s): Rasha Zamamiri
    • Durée: 12 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An incisive exploration of women and work, Egyptian Made shows how globalization’s promise of liberation instead set the stage for repression—from the acclaimed author of Factory Girls.

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Guide to Our Future
    • Auteur(s): Paul Mason
    • Narrateur(s): Gildart Jackson
    • Durée: 13 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big and so profound that this time capitalism itself will mutate into something wholly new....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
    • Auteur(s): Danny Dorling
    • Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
    • Durée: 12 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per person, increases in life expectancy....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Japan and the Art of Survival
    • Auteur(s): David Pilling
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Andes Pabon
    • Durée: 14 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-03-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In Bending Adversity, Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan....

    Prix courant: 22,96$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Wild Apples, Real Cider, and the Complicated Art of Making a Living
    • Auteur(s): Andy Brennan
    • Narrateur(s): Brett Barry
    • Durée: 11 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Long before the advent of conventional farming methods - which have focused on constant growth, human intervention, and genetic homogeneity - the apple had already grown to become the ubiquitous all-American symbol it is today....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
    • Auteur(s): Niall Ferguson
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Slack
    • Durée: 4 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the erosion of the West’s once rock-solid foundations....

    Prix courant: 27,77$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
    • Auteur(s): Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, Henry M. Paulson Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
    • Durée: 4 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis - from why it happened to where we are now....

    Prix courant: 17,48$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
    • Auteur(s): Douglas Rushkoff
    • Narrateur(s): Douglas Rushkoff
    • Durée: 9 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Digital technology was supposed to usher in a new age of distributed prosperity, but so far it has been used to put industrial capitalism on steroids....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
    • Auteur(s): James Howard Kunstler
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 10 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-05-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • With vision, clarity of thought, and a pragmatic worldview, Kunstler argues that the time for magical thinking and hoping for miracles is over....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Whitby
    • Narrateur(s): David Piggott
    • Durée: 11 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In The Sum of the People, data scientist Andrew Whitby traces the remarkable history of the census, from ancient China and the Roman Empire, through revolutionary America and Nazi-occupied Europe, to the steps of the Supreme Court....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Hidden Nature of Finance
    • Auteur(s): Anastasia Nesvetailova, Ronen Palan
    • Narrateur(s): Jared Zak
    • Durée: 6 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • With each financial bust, people expect to hear who the culprit was, and cynically know to not expect much punishment to ever reach them. But the innovation of this book is to show that each individual gaming the system isn't a crook - the whole system is sabotage....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
    • Auteur(s): David Cay Johnston
    • Narrateur(s): David Cay Johnston
    • Durée: 6 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-01-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The best-selling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new expose....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold History of American Labor
    • Auteur(s): Kim Kelly
    • Narrateur(s): Em Grosland
    • Durée: 12 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
    • Auteur(s): Thom Hartmann
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
    • Série: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Durée: 4 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system; they function the same way as cancer does in a body, and like cancer, they weaken our systems while threatening to crash the entire body economics....

    Prix courant: 16,16$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
    • Auteur(s): Roger Lowenstein
    • Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
    • Durée: 9 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-10-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
    • Auteur(s): David Wootton
    • Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
    • Durée: 10 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • David Wootton traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House
    • Auteur(s): Tessa Boase
    • Narrateur(s): Tessa Boase
    • Durée: 11 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-09-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a 19th and early 20th century woman could want - and also one of the toughest. A far cry from the Downton Abbey fiction....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership
    • Auteur(s): Clyde Prestowitz
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
    • Durée: 13 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China's growing power poses and how it must be confronted....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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