Poverty Economics

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    • Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
    • Auteur(s): Tracy Kidder
    • Narrateur(s): Tracy Kidder
    • Durée: 8 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal....

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    • Living on Almost Nothing in America
    • Auteur(s): Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 7 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

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    • Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
    • Auteur(s): Dambisa Moyo, Niall Ferguson - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 6 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 évaluations
    • A national best-seller, Dead Aid unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
    • Auteur(s): Muhammad Yunus
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Woren
    • Durée: 8 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Innovation Can Lift Nations out of Poverty
    • Auteur(s): Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, Karen Dillon
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 9 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • Clayton M. Christensen and coauthors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity and offers a groundbreaking solution for true and lasting change....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • Auteur(s): Ben Austen
    • Narrateur(s): Ron Butler
    • Durée: 13 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....

    Prix courant: 34,95$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Henry George
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Smith
    • Durée: 15 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Progress and Poverty by Henry George explores the paradox of increasing inequality in periods of economic growth. George proposes that land...

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    • Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity
    • Auteur(s): Rainer Zitelmann
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
    • Durée: 6 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-11-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • During the twentieth century, Vietnam and Poland were both victims not only of devastating wars, but also of socialist planned economies that destroyed whatever war hadn’t already.

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    • Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich, and Sacrificing the Future of America
    • Auteur(s): Tim Wise
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Wise
    • Durée: 11 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-25
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Under the Affluence, Tim Wise discusses a related issue: economic inequality and the demonization of those in need....

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    • Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
    • Auteur(s): Timothy P. Carney
    • Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
    • Durée: 10 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • This hard-hitting analysis identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: It is not purely the result of economics as the left claims, but the collapse of the institutions that made us successful, including marriage, church, and civic life....

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    • American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
    • Auteur(s): Matt Taibbi
    • Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
    • Durée: 14 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-04-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 évaluations
    • Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world’s wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail....

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    • Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
    • Auteur(s): Jacqueline Novogratz
    • Narrateur(s): Jacqueline Novogratz
    • Durée: 10 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-12-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty....

    Prix courant: 29,05$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
    • Auteur(s): Priya Fielding-Singh PhD
    • Narrateur(s): Priya Fielding-Singh PhD, York Whitaker
    • Durée: 11 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Packed with lyrical storytelling and groundbreaking research, as well as Fielding-Singh’s personal experiences with food as a biracial, South Asian American woman, How the Other Half Eats illuminates exactly how inequality starts on the dinner plate....

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    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • Auteur(s): Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
    • Durée: 6 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

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    • Food and Longing in an American City
    • Auteur(s): Kim Foster
    • Narrateur(s): Sara Sheckells
    • Durée: 12 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
    • Auteur(s): Nina Munk
    • Narrateur(s): Susan Nezami
    • Durée: 7 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
    • Auteur(s): Annie Lowrey
    • Narrateur(s): Annie Lowrey
    • Durée: 7 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time....

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    • Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
    • Auteur(s): David Pilling
    • Narrateur(s): Elliot Hill
    • Durée: 8 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-01-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In this powerful, incisive book, David Pilling reveals the hidden biases of economic orthodoxy and explores the alternatives to GDP, from measures of wealth, equality, and sustainability to measures of subjective well-being. Authoritative, provocative, and eye-opening....

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    • Field Notes, Book 6
    • Auteur(s): Deborah Dundas
    • Narrateur(s): Deborah Dundas
    • Série: Field Notes
    • Durée: 4 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn’t make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with the poor and those who are poor about what happens when we don’t talk about poverty or class—and what will happen when we do....

    Prix courant: 14,03$ ou 1 crédit

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