Social Economics

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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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

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    • Facing the New Anxieties
    • Auteur(s): Paul Collier
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
    • Durée: 9 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 évaluations
    • From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it....

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    • Auteur(s): Jerry Z. Muller
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Josdal
    • Durée: 5 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • Jerry Muller uncovers the damage our obsession with metrics is causing and shows how we can begin to fix the problem. Filled with examples from education, medicine, and more, this book explains why the seemingly irresistible pressure to quantify performance distorts and distracts....

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    • Why Having Too Little Means So Much
    • Auteur(s): Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
    • Durée: 8 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-09-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 évaluations
    • Drawing on cutting-edge research from behavioral science and economics, Mullainathan and Shafir show that scarcity creates a similar psychology for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need....

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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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    • The Corruption of Capitalism in America
    • Auteur(s): David Stockman
    • Narrateur(s): William Hughes
    • Durée: 36 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-04-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A coruscating, brilliantly insightful exegesis of where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored....

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    • A World in Crisis
    • Auteur(s): Paul T. Hellyer
    • Narrateur(s): Leslie James
    • Durée: 9 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-07-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • With more than 65 years of participation in and observation of political and economic systems, Paul T. Hellyer analyzes what he believes has gone wrong with the world and its economy....

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    • The Economics of Star Trek
    • Auteur(s): Manu Saadia
    • Narrateur(s): Oliver Wyman
    • Durée: 8 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 évaluations
    • What would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed? Trekonomics approaches scarcity economics by coming at it backward....

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    • False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
    • Auteur(s): Binyamin Appelbaum
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Bittner
    • Durée: 13 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 évaluations
    • In this fascinating character-driven history, a New York Times editorial writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist spotlights the American economists who championed the rise of markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world....

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    • What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity
    • Auteur(s): Michele Norris
    • Narrateur(s): Michele Norris, full cast
    • Durée: 17 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project....

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    • Auteur(s): Michael Mechanic
    • Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Durée: 10 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit - and the insidious ways this realm harms us all....

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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.

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    • Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
    • Auteur(s): Angus Deaton
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Brenher
    • Durée: 12 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-01-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have transformed our lives, The Great Escape is a powerful guide to addressing the well-being of all nations....

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    • The Economic Classic with a New Foreword
    • Auteur(s): Henry George, Ayrton Parham - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Eli Snuggs
    • Durée: 17 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Capitalism has blessed the world with wealth and technological miracles. It has also cursed it with urban slums, powerless workers, and the vicious boom-and-bust economy. If only there were some way to fix the problems of capitalism and keep all its benefits....

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    • Auteur(s): Amartya Sen
    • Narrateur(s): Byron Wagner
    • Durée: 11 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-03-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Freedom, Amartya Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population....

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    • How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
    • Auteur(s): Niall Ferguson
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Slack
    • Durée: 4 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the erosion of the West’s once rock-solid foundations....

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    • What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table
    • Auteur(s): Minda Harts
    • Narrateur(s): Minda Harts
    • Durée: 4 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 évaluations
    • The Memo is the much-needed career advice guide for women of color specifically, finally ending the one-size-fits-all approach of business books that lump together women across races and overlook the unique barriers to success for women of color....

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    • Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Wendel
    • Narrateur(s): Danny Hughes
    • Durée: 12 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-25
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this updated edition, Stephen Wendel, head of behavioral science at Morningstar, takes you step-by-step through the process of incorporating behavioral science into product design and development....

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    • Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro
    • Auteur(s): Rachel Slade
    • Narrateur(s): Erin Bennett
    • Durée: 11 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in 35 years....

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