Economic Sociology

Liste de produits
    • How to Save the World from Financialisation
    • Auteur(s): Grace Blakeley
    • Narrateur(s): Grace Blakeley
    • Durée: 7 h
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges - and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
    • Auteur(s): Daniel Golden
    • Narrateur(s): Nancy Linari
    • Durée: 14 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • With a riveting new chapter on Operation Varsity Blues, based on original reporting, The Price of Admission is a must-listen - for parents and students with a personal stake in college admissions and those disturbed by the growing divide between ordinary and privileged Americans....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Histories of American Education)
    • Auteur(s): Jon Shelton
    • Narrateur(s): Keith McCarthy
    • Durée: 10 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
    • Auteur(s): Robert H. Frank
    • Narrateur(s): Robert H. Frank
    • Durée: 5 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Robert Frank explores the surprising implications of those findings to show why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in success - and why that hurts everyone, even the wealthy....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • Principles of Economic Life
    • Auteur(s): Jane Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Bernadette Dunne
    • Durée: 10 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

    • Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
    • Auteur(s): Adonia E. Lugo PhD
    • Narrateur(s): Melissa Medina
    • Durée: 5 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels....

    Prix courant: 19,30$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,30$ ou 1 crédit

    • Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life
    • Auteur(s): Jacqueline Kennelly
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Schwing
    • Durée: 10 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Burnt by Democracy traces the political ascendance of neoliberalism and its effects on youth.

    Prix courant: 24,47$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 24,47$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Herbert Spencer
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Natal
    • Durée: 12 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Hebert Spencer coined the famous expression “survival of the fittest”. Spencer’s theory inspired Andrew Carnegie and William Graham Sumner's visions of unbridled and unrepentant capitalism of the United States in late 19th century....

    Prix courant: 20,20$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,20$ ou 1 crédit

    • A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
    • Auteur(s): William Langewiesche
    • Narrateur(s): William Langewiesche
    • Durée: 7 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-04-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world....

    Prix courant: 19,99$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,99$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Novel About What's Bugging Society
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Aaron Grey
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Aaron Grey
    • Durée: 3 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-09-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Ruled by the evil White cockroaches, on an oppressive plantation, Anton Indigo, Antrea Violet, and a thousand other ants escape to seek freedom on Ant Farm....

    Prix courant: 19,78$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,78$ ou 1 crédit

    • America's Contempt for the Underclass
    • Auteur(s): Sarah Jones
    • Narrateur(s): Sarah Mollo-Christensen
    • Durée: 9 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-02-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In a compelling blend of personal narrative and in-depth reporting, New York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones exposes the harsh reality of America’s racial and income inequality and the devastating impact of the pandemic on our nation’s most vulnerable people.

    Prix courant: 25,99$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,99$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
    • Auteur(s): Richard D. Kahlenberg
    • Narrateur(s): Graham Winton
    • Durée: 9 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An indictment of America's housing policy, Excluded reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    • Collected Essays
    • Auteur(s): Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren
    • Durée: 10 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade", Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World
    • Auteur(s): Michèle Lamont
    • Narrateur(s): Jane Oppenheimer
    • Durée: 5 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this capstone work, Michèle Lamont unpacks the power of recognition—rendering others as visible and valued—by drawing on nearly forty years of research and new interviews with young adults and cultural icons—from Nikole Hannah-Jones and Cornel West to Michael Schur and Roxane Gay.

    Prix courant: 18,99$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,99$ ou 1 crédit

    • How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises
    • Auteur(s): Marjorie Kelly
    • Narrateur(s): Tiffany Williams
    • Durée: 6 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Kelly argues instead for the democratization of ownership, including public ownership of vital services, worker-owned businesses, and more. She sketches the outlines of a nonextractive capitalism that would be subordinate to the public interest....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
    • Auteur(s): Malcolm Harris
    • Narrateur(s): Will Collyer
    • Durée: 7 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • Harris gives us a portrait of what it means to be young in America today that will wake you up and piss you off....

    Prix courant: 25,23$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,23$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
    • Auteur(s): Tyler Cowen
    • Narrateur(s): Walter Dixon
    • Durée: 7 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. The problem is that Americans today have broken from this tradition....

    Prix courant: 31,16$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,16$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
    • Auteur(s): Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya
    • Narrateur(s): Manish Dongardive
    • Durée: 7 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-08-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Ghost Story
    • Auteur(s): Arundhati Roy
    • Narrateur(s): Vaishali Sharma
    • Durée: 2 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-10-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Capitalism examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism has subjugated billions of people....

    Prix courant: 17,98$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,98$ ou 1 crédit

    • Fighting for Housing in America
    • Auteur(s): Conor Dougherty
    • Narrateur(s): Conor Dougherty
    • Durée: 8 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit