Economic Sociology

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    • The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
    • Auteur(s): Joel Bakan
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Jenkins
    • Durée: 6 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Joel Bakan's book is a brilliantly argued account of the corporation's pathological pursuit of profit and power....

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    • How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
    • Auteur(s): Melissa S. Kearney
    • Narrateur(s): Cait Raymond
    • Durée: 7 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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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.

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
    • Auteur(s): Anthony Abraham Jack
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 7 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how - and why - disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
    • Auteur(s): Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
    • Narrateur(s): John Bedford Lloyd
    • Durée: 11 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-04-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • These Are the Plunderers traces the thirty-year history of corporate takeovers in America and private equity’s increasing dominance....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Chris Hedges
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 14 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 évaluations
    • A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair - drug abuse, suicide, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
    • Auteur(s): Oliver Bullough
    • Narrateur(s): Oliver Bullough
    • Durée: 9 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 évaluations
    • An investigative journalist's deep dive into the corrupt workings of the world's kleptocrats....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Middle Class Got Screwed by Globalization
    • Auteur(s): Jeff Rubin
    • Narrateur(s): Jeff Rubin
    • Durée: 10 h
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 évaluations
    • From the number one best-selling author of Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, a provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalization....

    Prix courant: 28,55$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity
    • Auteur(s): Claudia Goldin
    • Narrateur(s): Nancy Crane
    • Durée: 9 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • This audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Jane Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Rachel Fulginiti
    • Durée: 8 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports....

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    • How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
    • Auteur(s): Anne Helen Petersen
    • Narrateur(s): Anne Helen Petersen
    • Durée: 8 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 évaluations
    • Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because you’re too exhausted to pick up a book? Are you mired in debt, or feel like you work all the time? Welcome to burnout culture....

    Prix courant: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
    • Auteur(s): Cormac Russell, John McKnight
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 5 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret
    • Auteur(s): Catherine Coleman Flowers
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 6 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers’s life’s work. It’s a fight for a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Richard Cockett
    • Narrateur(s): Gareth Richards
    • Durée: 14 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
    • Auteur(s): James Surowiecki
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 9 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-05-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications....

    Prix courant: 20,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of the Rich in the West
    • Auteur(s): Guido Alfani
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
    • Durée: 16 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Alfani argues that the position of the rich and super-rich in Western society has always been intrinsically fragile; their very presence has inspired social unease. In the Middle Ages, an excessive accumulation of wealth was considered sinful; the rich were expected not to appear to be wealthy....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
    • Auteur(s): Peter Temin
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
    • Durée: 7 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-03-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, play an important part in the widening gap between rich and poor....

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    • The Aging of the World's Population and How It Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss
    • Auteur(s): Ted C. Fishman
    • Narrateur(s): Kerin McCue
    • Durée: 16 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-01-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • New York Times best-selling author Ted C. Fishman reveals the stunning challenges of a world awash with seasoned citizens....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
    • Auteur(s): Joan C. Williams
    • Narrateur(s): Liisa Ivary
    • Durée: 3 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-06-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class....

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    • The Science-Based Method to Reclaim Your Health and Take Control Easily
    • Auteur(s): Annie Grace, William Porter
    • Narrateur(s): William Porter
    • Durée: 6 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Tobacco is bad for us; that’s a given. But even though you may know the negative health effects, nicotine’s hold is strong, subconscious, and emotional: It tastes good, it’s a companion when you’re alone, and it can be a shield against stress....

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