Social Economics

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    • How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
    • Auteur(s): Cathy O'Neil
    • Narrateur(s): Cathy O'Neil
    • Durée: 6 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 évaluations
    • We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Daniel Yergin
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
    • Durée: 29 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-10-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 évaluations
    • In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them....

    Prix courant: 32,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Newfoundland Childhood
    • Auteur(s): Wayne Johnston
    • Narrateur(s): Wayne Johnston
    • Durée: 8 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood.

    Prix courant: 29,96$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
    • Auteur(s): Kurt Andersen
    • Narrateur(s): Kurt Andersen
    • Durée: 19 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 évaluations
    • A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland....

    Prix courant: 32,05$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Vandana Shiva, Kartikey Shiva
    • Narrateur(s): Tia Rider
    • Durée: 5 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 évaluations
    • In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaires club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world....

    Prix courant: 15,10$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
    • Auteur(s): Sarah Kendzior
    • Narrateur(s): Sarah Kendzior
    • Durée: 9 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 évaluations
    • New York Times best-selling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American dema­gogue possible....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Steve Dafoe
    • Narrateur(s): Barry Fike
    • Durée: 2 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Economics is indeed a Social Science that delves into and unravels the production, distribution and consumption of everyday goods and services. It analyzes the behavior of buyers and sellers, which gives Economics the social definition but also employs a systematic approach to problem solving.

    Prix courant: 8,71$ 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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    • How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
    • Auteur(s): Tom Burgis
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Burgis
    • Durée: 10 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • In this shocking, meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, an award-winning investigative journalist exposes “capitalism’s monster”—global kleptocracy—and reveals how it is corrupting the world around us....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies
    • Auteur(s): Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington
    • Narrateur(s): Amy Finegan
    • Durée: 8 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry—and what to do about it....

    Prix courant: 23,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Klaus Schwab
    • Narrateur(s): Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Durée: 5 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-01-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 66 évaluations
    • World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution....

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    • The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
    • Auteur(s): Geoffrey West
    • Narrateur(s): Bruce Mann
    • Durée: 19 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 évaluations
    • Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks....

    Prix courant: 32,05$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
    • Auteur(s): Keith Payne
    • Narrateur(s): James Foster
    • Durée: 7 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 évaluations
    • Today's inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
    • Auteur(s): Adam Tooze
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
    • Durée: 25 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 évaluations
    • From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shock waves being felt around the world today....

    Prix courant: 37,88$ ou 1 crédit

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    • And Other Essays
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Sowell
    • Narrateur(s): Leon Nixon
    • Durée: 7 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Thomas Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes....

    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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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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    • Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
    • Auteur(s): Seth Klein
    • Narrateur(s): John Cleland
    • Durée: 18 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 évaluations
    • This book will explore whether we can successfully align our politics with climate science and the conditions under which it may be possible to act boldly. Canada’s WWII experience provides a reminder that we have mobilized in common cause and retooled our economy in a few short years....

    Prix courant: 27,52$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support Our Longer Lives
    • Auteur(s): Andrew J. Scott
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Chance
    • Durée: 10 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Thanks to increases in life expectancy, we can now expect to live for a long time. Most of us would welcome an extra day in the week, so why do so many of us view the prospect of additional years with fear and skepticism?....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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