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Macroeconomics Made Clear
- De: Akila Weerapana, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Akila Weerapana
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
The issues addressed by macroeconomics are all around you, all the time—from taxes to inflation to mention of the GDP on the nightly news. By learning the principles of macroeconomics, you’ll be able to go beyond simply hearing the terms to better understanding their relationships to each other and how they create the economic environment in which you live. In fact, macroeconomics with its “big-picture glasses” allows you to better ask—and better try to answer—the biggest questions of our time, questions that impact the lives of billions of people.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative, but biased toward centralized solutio
- De Generic Personage en 07-13-23
- Macroeconomics Made Clear
- De: Akila Weerapana, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Akila Weerapana
Good Introduction, Heavy Liberal Bias
Revisado: 12-03-24
This is a good introduction to the subject, it covers many basic concepts and teaches how government fiscal policy is decided. However, the professor has a significant left bias. The last chapter discussed income inequality, and he proposed income redistribution through taxation and carbon taxes as solutions. I'm somewhat new to the subject, but his take on the national debt I also found alarming: he said it was fine for the US to carry enormous national debt, so long as the GDP growth rate was greater than the interest rate on the debt... um, what? Is there a limit to that? The interest payments alone on the US National debt recently surpassed the entire military budget (2024).... That's insane, and unsustainable, regardless of what the actual percentage rate is.
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A Brief History of the World
- De: Peter N. Stearns, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Peter N. Stearns
- Duración: 19 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 453
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 390
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 387
The construction of the great pyramids of Egypt, the development of democracy in ancient Greece, the glories of ancient Rome-these stories are familiar to students of history. But what about the rest of the world? How do the histories of China and Japan, or Russia, India, and the remote territories of Sub-Saharan Africa and South America fit in with commonly known accounts of Western traditions?Learn the rest of the story with these 36 riveting lectures that survey the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Global
- De Tad Davis en 12-05-13
- A Brief History of the World
- De: Peter N. Stearns, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Peter N. Stearns
World History from a leftist viewpoint
Revisado: 05-16-24
The speaker criticizes traditional historians' focus on Western history on the subject of world history. He uses this criticism to justify glossing over the West's history, and instead focuses on the East and Middle East. While the criticism may be valid, the title of this lecture series should be changed to reflect this focus.
Furthermore, his word choices and topic focus clearly indicate the speaker's disdain for the West. For example, he refers to the West as "immitators" of Eastern and Middle Eastern achievements in mathematics and technology. He emphasizes, multiple times, how European slavery (i.e. white slavery) in classical times was far gentler and kinder than the Atlantic slave trade. He downplays Muslim terrorism and violence. He mentions the expulsion of Muslims from Spain and Portugual in medeival times, but doesn't mention that the Jews were simultaneously expelled.
Full disclosure, I didn't actually finish this lecture series - I stopped about halfway through because I was so annoyed. From reading other reviews, I don't regret it, because it doesn't seem like it gets any better. If you're looking for more balanced account of world history, this isn't it.
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