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Why Planes Crash
- An Accident Investigator's Fight for Safe Skies
- De: David Soucie, Ozzie Cheek
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 266
Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people. Even though we all have heard that the odds of being struck by lightning are greater than the odds of perishing in a plane crash, it still doesn't feel that way. Airplane crashes might be rare, but they do happen, and they’re usually fatal. David Soucie insists that most of these deaths could be prevented. He’s worked as a pilot, a mechanic, an FAA inspector, and an aviation executive. He’s seen death up close and personal - deaths of colleagues and friends that might have been prevented if he had approved certain safety measures in the aircrafts they were handling.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Me, Me, Me
- De WakeNCAgent en 09-13-19
- Why Planes Crash
- An Accident Investigator's Fight for Safe Skies
- De: David Soucie, Ozzie Cheek
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
Memoirs of a Bullshit Artist
Revisado: 01-20-25
The title asks why planes crash, and the answers given for most of the incidents in the book seem to be "because David Soucie was involved." Indeed, he was apparently involved in, and responsible for, more serious aviation incidents than any normal person could expect over several lifetimes.
Contrary to the clickbait title, this book is not about why planes crash, but is rather the memoirs of a bullshit artist who presents himself simultaneously as both the villain and the hero of an increasingly implausible series of tall tales. It is best understood as a study in psychological pathology.
My personal favorite was when he explained to the young mother next to him on the plane that her baby was crying because he was hungry. Fortunately, she heeded his advice and fed the baby, thanking him warmly for sharing his wisdom.
Kudos to the narrator who managed to read this ridiculous screed as if it were a serious recounting of fact.
Don't waste your time with this book unless you have a really twisted sense of humor.
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The Servile State
- De: Hilaire Belloc
- Narrado por: Jackson Moss
- Duración: 4 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
In this 1912 classic, wide-ranging polemicist Hilaire Belloc presents a new economic history of Europe and makes his case for "Distributism", the author’s answer to the instability of capitalism and the stringency of socialism. Belloc outlines the major economic transitions through the history of the West, arguing that the civilization began as servile and dependent upon slavery and only emerged with the advent of the Christian faith. The Middle Ages are highlighted as the optimal condition, marked by a fair distribution of property.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Rough narrator
- De jsewell en 02-08-21
- The Servile State
- De: Hilaire Belloc
- Narrado por: Jackson Moss
Horrible narration
Revisado: 09-14-21
The narration is a disaster,halting and robotic. Makes it very hard to follow the author's train of thought.
As for the substance, this book is perhaps a bit outdated. I appreciate the author's sympathy for the working poor of his time, but his economic analysis is garbage and his predictions have failed wildly.
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The Privatization of Roads and Highways
- Human and Economic Factors
- De: Walter Block
- Narrado por: Jim Vann
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
The Mises Institute is pleased to introduce Walter Block's remarkable new treatise on private roads that'll cause you to rethink the whole of the way modern transportation networks operate. It's bold, innovative, radical, and compelling and shows how free-market economic theory is the clarifying lens through which to see the failures of the state and see the alternative that's consistent with human liberty.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mostly Dumb and Boring
- De Douglas Morton en 06-20-20
- The Privatization of Roads and Highways
- Human and Economic Factors
- De: Walter Block
- Narrado por: Jim Vann
Great book but repetitive and poorly edited
Revisado: 10-14-16
The points made in this book are great, but the audio editing is a disaster.
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23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism
- De: Ha-Joon Chang
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,188
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 963
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 955
If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists-the apostles of the freemarket-have spun since the Age of Reagan.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A shallow and destructive book
- De Sean en 11-10-11
- 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism
- De: Ha-Joon Chang
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
This Ignoramus Should Read, Not Write, Books
Revisado: 09-30-15
What would have made 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism better?
The author should learn something about what he is going to criticize before he sets about criticizing it. But then, if he did, he wouldn't have written the book at all.
Would you ever listen to anything by Ha-Joon Chang again?
No.
Which scene was your favorite?
The scene where the wealth created by the rich person got magically "redistributed up" from the poor person that didn't create it, to the rich person that did. It was confusing, but hilarious!
What character would you cut from 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism?
Ha-Joon Chang.
Any additional comments?
He does make a few good points, such as how certain political factors are incorporated into, and shape, markets, without free-market proponents noticing (in chapter 1). On the other hand, he proves practically none of his assertions, and most of his arguments "against" capitalism are based on his own misunderstandings of free-market arguments, i.e., straw-man arguments. As an avid free-marketer myself, I welcome *valid* opposing viewpoints. This book does not supply that.
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