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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
- De: Samuel P. Huntington
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 827
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 611
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 608
For anyone interested in foreign affairs, this book will catalyze debate, and not only for Mr. Huntington's concluding scenario for World War III. He sees how this could happen if the U.S. mishandles an increasingly xenophobic and truculent China. Chinese assertiveness, Huntington argues, rises out of its felt grievances against a relatively weakening West. After China, the gravest challenge to the West is resurgent Islamic identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Most Important Book You'll Read This Year
- De Donald en 10-21-04
Remarkably or maybe not so Remarkably, most of Huntington’s analysis has held up almost 20 years into the 21st century.
Revisado: 05-02-19
Huntington only tangentially anticipated Trump in his darker warnings, but his warning that the United States and Europe would either hang together or hang separately has a new relevance today. Huntington was very clear that Russia is its own Civilization and although it barrows from the West in some aspects it draws much more heavily from its own longstanding concepts of governance and law from Civilizations only barely or not at all from the European Renaissance. I think this is an important read even if Huntington missed some finer points of the relationship between civilizations.
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Keynes Vs. Hayek
- De: Lord Robert Skidelsky, George Selgin, Duncan Weldon, y otros
- Narrado por: Paul Mason
- Duración: 42 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 20
What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views. John Maynard Keynes believed that government spending could create employment and longer-term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich Hayek believed that investments have to be based on real savings rather than increased public spending or artificially low interest rates. Keynes's biographer, Professor Lord Skidelsky, takes on modern-day followers of Hayek in a debate.
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1 out of 5 stars
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No more a debate than “shana,shana,shana.
- De Junkyard Dog en 08-05-18
- Keynes Vs. Hayek
- De: Lord Robert Skidelsky, George Selgin, Duncan Weldon, Jamie Whyte
- Narrado por: Paul Mason
No more a debate than “shana,shana,shana.
Revisado: 08-05-18
Just Ideologues talking past each other with loud applause from Hayekans getting a rare moment in the sun.
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We the Corporations
- How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
- De: Adam Winkler
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations - like minorities and women - have had a civil rights movement of their own and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision was the capstone of a 200-year battle....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Many books in one, supporting vast insight
- De Philo en 04-03-18
- We the Corporations
- How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
- De: Adam Winkler
- Narrado por: William Hughes
required reading for those interested in American politics.
Revisado: 06-28-18
This is easily the most interesting and accessible book on what is going to be a crucial issue in American politics. Corporate America will try every way possible to distort and minimize this issue. It is incumbent for at least a small segment of the public to understand the ins and outs of corporate constitutional rights. There is no limit to the power they seek. They already have four Justices on the Supreme Court that are favorably disposed to extending almost all civil rights to Corporations either through legal personhood or if necessary to pierce the corporate vail to find personhood even though stock ownership by persons in modern society is unknowable.
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Exit Music
- De: Ian Rankin
- Narrado por: James Macpherson
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to expand its interests. And as Rebus' investigation gains ground, someone brutally assaults a local gangster with whom he has a long history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Greats
- De Piggytush en 03-11-19
- Exit Music
- De: Ian Rankin
- Narrado por: James Macpherson
Macpherson reads even better than Rankin writes
Revisado: 08-11-17
Maybe even better than reading Rebus books which I find to be well written. Very good writers of detective fiction, probably all fiction, give just enough character development to make the plot completely believable. That is what make Rankin's books so enjoyable.
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America's Bitter Pill
- Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
- De: Steven Brill
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 17 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 679
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 574
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 577
America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great history, questionable solutions
- De Andrew S. Breza en 01-14-15
- America's Bitter Pill
- Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
- De: Steven Brill
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
Must read book to get a better understanding of healthcare
Revisado: 07-27-17
This is a very easy to follow explanation of the passage of the ACA. But more than that is an explanation of the major problems in healthcare it confronted and those it did not did not address. Most of the cost problems still remain and are still not being addressed. The book also offers some suggestions of how to solve some of them. I think it is a must read and may be more important and useful three years after it was written. I suggest spending some time delving into the current developments as you listen to this book.
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