Economic Social History

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    • The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
    • Auteur(s): Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrateur(s): Anne Twomey
    • Durée: 6 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-08-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The best-selling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor....

    Prix courant: 19,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
    • Auteur(s): James Grant
    • Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
    • Durée: 9 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In 1920-1921, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it, implementing policies that most 21st-century economists would call backward....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire
    • Auteur(s): David McNally
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Getman
    • Durée: 11 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In most accounts of the origins of money, we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. In this groundbreaking study David McNally reveals the true story of money's origins and development....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
    • Auteur(s): Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 9 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-09-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
    • Auteur(s): Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrateur(s): Priya Ayyar
    • Durée: 9 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • The United States has two separate banking systems today - one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Hedrick Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 16 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-09-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled....

    Prix courant: 44,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
    • Auteur(s): Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Meadows
    • Durée: 11 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-07-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Turning the spotlight on the crises of our time, Age of Discovery shows how we can all define and create a lasting legacy that the world will still celebrate 500 years from now....

    Prix courant: 25,96$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Rethinking Identity
    • Auteur(s): Kwame Anthony Appiah
    • Narrateur(s): Kwame Anthony Appiah
    • Durée: 7 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • Author Kwame Anthony Appiah interweaves keen-edged argument of how identities at the root of global conflict are actually created by conflict in the first place with engrossing historical tales and reveals the tangled contradictions within the stories that define us....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
    • Auteur(s): George Magnus
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
    • Durée: 9 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 évaluations
    • Will China rule the world, or will its dream turn into a nightmare? George Magnus, the trusted economic commentator on China, provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued rise....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ 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....

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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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    • Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
    • Auteur(s): Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
    • Durée: 4 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....

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    • How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World
    • Auteur(s): Rupert Russell
    • Narrateur(s): Ben Deery
    • Durée: 9 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Price Wars is a fascinating, original, and groundbreaking exposé of the power of the commodities markets to disrupt the world....

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    • Observations on Economics, Politics, History, and Culture
    • Auteur(s): Branko Milanovic
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
    • Durée: 12 h
    • Date de publication: 2025-06-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This book brings together Branko Milanovic's most searching, provocative, and entertaining articles of recent years, providing an abundance of vital insights into the evolution and dynamics of the world under capitalism.

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Gregg Easterbrook
    • Narrateur(s): Oliver Wyman
    • Durée: 14 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Most people who pay attention to the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems....

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  • Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The History of an Obsession
    • Auteur(s): Peter L. Bernstein
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Conger
    • Durée: 5 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2001-03-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Peter L. Bernstein tells the story of history's most coveted, celebrated, and inglorious asset: gold. From the ancient fascinations of Moses and Midas...

    Prix courant: 16,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
    • Auteur(s): Gregg Easterbrook
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Marosz
    • Durée: 11 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-11-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Gregg Easterbrook makes the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century; and yet today, most men and women feel less happy...

    Prix courant: 23,25$ ou 1 crédit

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