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American Exception
- Empire and the Deep State
- De: Aaron Good
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 104
To trace the evolution of the American state, Aaron Good takes a deep-politics approach. The term “deep state” was badly misappropriated during the Trump era. In the simplest sense, it here refers to all those institutions that collectively exercise undemocratic power over state and society. To trace how we arrived at this point, American Exception explores various deep state institutions and history-making interventions.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I buy the premises, but not the conclusions...
- De Clark en 01-05-23
- American Exception
- Empire and the Deep State
- De: Aaron Good
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
Every U.S. citizen should read this.
Revisado: 07-27-24
Excellent discussion on the Deep State and how it has destroyed the American way of life, and also why the academy has been unwilling/unable to help in shedding light on what has happened to U.S. polity. Bravo!
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The Classical School
- The Birth of Economics in 20 Enlightened Lives
- De: Callum Williams
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
What was Adam Smith really talking about when he mentioned the "invisible hand"? Did Karl Marx really predict the end of capitalism? Did Thomas Malthus (from whose name the word Malthusian derives) really believe that famines were desirable? In The Classical School, Callum Williams debunks popular myths about these great economists and explains the significance of their ideas in an engaging way.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Where is James Steuart?
- De SJW en 10-27-22
- The Classical School
- The Birth of Economics in 20 Enlightened Lives
- De: Callum Williams
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
Where is James Steuart?
Revisado: 10-27-22
This book is very disappointing on many levels. The author does a decent job wiith some of the early classicals. But Jevons and Marshall are not classical economists. They are founders of neoclassical economics, which prevails today. i dont think this author understands what classifys an economist as classical. And he includes 2 people who contributed little to nothing to economic theory, which the author admits. i have studied history of thought and never heard of them. He bad mouths Marx in an almost comical way, saying he was basically a drunken lout who ignored his family, cheated on his wife and broke street lamps. He lived in poverty and mooched off of Engels, and on top of it all, was an antisemetic Jew.
With all this, why didn't he mention that Emma Goldman was shot in the head by Nazis in Germany who purged communists, after being deported from the US by Woodrow Wilson's left-purging Palmer raids? That seems more historically relevant than the assertion that Marx possibly impregnating his housekeeper. And where is James Steuart, an important early classical econonomist?
The author also makes fun of the classicals focus on value, which neoclassical economists intentionally ignore. it is important, and thankfully Marianna Mazzucato has recently done a good treatment of it.
Read Michael Hudson if you want to understand the contributions of the classicals. They made important points that todays neoclassical (and neoliberal) economists intentionally avoid. it is easier to add a bunch of unnecssary theoretical stuff that no one else understands than deal
head-on with problems like poverty, inequality, and yes, imperialism. (Read John Perkins '"Confessions of an economic hitman" if you are curious about how economics supports imperialism).
Like the vast majority of economists, the author does not understand broader history and how economics both contributed and was affected by it. We have so much industry concentration not only because of technical efficiencies but also because we essentially stopped enforcing antitrust laws. There are many books out now explaining this, starting with Matt Stollers "Goliath".
This book was a good idea not well-implemented. It is a shame. i hope someone will do a better job in the future. Or maybe this author might read some Hudson, Perkins, Mazzucato and also look into the work of Anwar Shaikh for future editions.
FYI, I am an economist, with all the requisite degrees and 30+ years of experience.
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The Accidental Superpower
- The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
- De: Peter Zeihan
- Narrado por: Peter Zeihan
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,409
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,953
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,925
In The Accidental Superpower, international strategist Peter Zeihan examines how geography, combined with demography and energy independence, will pave the way for one of the great turning points in history, and one in which America reasserts its global dominance. No other country has a greater network of internal waterways, a greater command of deepwater navigation, or a firmer hold on industrialization technologies than America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DDD: Demographics Determine Destiny
- De Soudant en 03-23-15
- The Accidental Superpower
- The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
- De: Peter Zeihan
- Narrado por: Peter Zeihan
Woefully Incomplete
Revisado: 02-19-19
OK, this book was published five years ago, but by 2014 it was pretty well known by then that climate change is real, and caused by humans. But this book spends less than 10 minutes at the very end of the book on the effects of climate change on geopolitics. It was clearly an afterthought. How can someone who does this work not bother to consider the single most important issue of our time, one that will have massive economic, political and geographic impacts, unlike anything we have seen before?
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Turning Points in American History
- De: Edward T. O'Donnell, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Edward T. O'Donnell
- Duración: 24 h y 28 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,098
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 966
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 960
These 48 lectures are your chance to relive the most groundbreaking moments in the fascinating story of the United States. They offer you a different perspective on the sweeping narrative of U.S. history. Spanning the arrival of the first English colonists to the chaos of the Civil War to the birth of the computer age and beyond, this lecture series is a captivating and comprehensive tour of those particular moments in the story of America, after which the nation would never be the same again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant, Informative, Entertaining!
- De Quaker en 04-01-15
Very enjoyable and interesting.
Revisado: 06-20-18
Highly recommend! Professor is very knowledgeable and has a very good speaking voice and manner of presentation.
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Democracy in Chains
- The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
- De: Nancy MacLean
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,584
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,382
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,372
Behind today's headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. But billionaires did not launch this movement; a white intellectual in the embattled Jim Crow South did.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read if you believe in democracy
- De H. L. Nelson en 10-11-17
- Democracy in Chains
- The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
- De: Nancy MacLean
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
The Deep History of Deception
Revisado: 08-08-17
This is an excellent history showing several disturbing things. One is the extent to which academics has been corrupted by wealthy interests pushing their own agenda. Another is how badly the field of economics has gotten off track, and how much it deviates from the objectivity that is necessary to be a social science that benefits society. It also shows how reprehensible Buchanan and Tullock were, and how they were able to have such an impact on political economy, sadly. MacLean has written an important book which exposes the subversive nature of some supposed "research" which is in reality about pushing an agenda. The extent to which this book has been trashed in some of the right-wing media outlets shows this. For me, it answered a lot of questions about how and why the field of economics has moved in the direction it has in the last few decades, and how that change in direction has hurt our economy and our political system. “Audible 20 Review Sweepstakes Entry”
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