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Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- De: David Graeber
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,886
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,283
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,269
Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transformative to the point of being revolutionary
- De James C. Samans en 08-14-16
- Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- De: David Graeber
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Top 3 Favorite book of 1000 read
Revisado: 01-24-23
Reading graeber is most necessary. Don’t tarry a moment longer. Get his books. Read this one first.
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The Shock Doctrine
- The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- De: Naomi Klein
- Narrado por: Jennifer Wiltsie
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,065
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,438
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,433
In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If It's Bad for Humanity, It's Good for Business
- De Nelson Alexander en 09-29-07
- The Shock Doctrine
- The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- De: Naomi Klein
- Narrado por: Jennifer Wiltsie
One of the most important books of the era
Revisado: 12-22-21
The book weaves an analogy between the misguided cruelty of psychological shock “therapy” and the free-market economic paradigm promoted by Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It was information-dense but fascinating and accessible and it poses a problem to any person still maintaining that free market utopia and small government represents a promised land—it most assuredly does not and the proof is in the pudding: far from bringing prosperity and opportunity, the free market approach to running the world leads only to outrageous corruption, inhumanity, poverty, tainted democracy and no small amount of violence.
The book focuses each chapter on a case study: i.e. one looks at post-Soviet Russia, one looks at Chile under the dictator Pinochet, etc, and time after time we see the real and disastrous results of free market economics in practice.
Far from a polemic, this work is factual, thoroughly researched and allows the horrible results of leaving governance to the invisible hand to speak for itself.
I’ve never encountered such an important work of iconoclasm as this, tearing down the false god of free markets simply by showing what really happens when we privatize everything and strip governments down to nothing.
If I have one gripe, it would be that there is little commentary as to what should come next, and I think Klein has a right to offer a few prescriptions. But no matter, this critique of free-market fundamentalism stands well on its own and is indispensable to citizens everywhere.
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The Dream of Enlightenment
- The Rise of Modern Philosophy
- De: Anthony Gottlieb
- Narrado por: Anthony Gottlieb
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
In The Dream of Enlightenment, Anthony Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightenment meets Neuroscience
- De Rodger en 12-05-19
- The Dream of Enlightenment
- The Rise of Modern Philosophy
- De: Anthony Gottlieb
- Narrado por: Anthony Gottlieb
Wonderful tour of enlightenment thinking
Revisado: 09-22-21
Gottlieb allowed me to get to know the central concerns and innovations of several enlightenment era thinkers in about ten hours. It was very well structured, clear and struck a good balance between thorough and succinct. I would love a similar look at thinkers after Rousseau and Voltaire, where he ended.
A good sequel might look at Nietszche, Kant, Camus, Russell, HDT among others. Loved it!
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- De: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 33 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 351
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 311
Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's cult of personality, and loosened the policies that had stunted China's growth. Obsessed with modernization, Deng opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Yet he also answered to his authoritarian roots, most notably when he ordered the crackdown in 1989 at Tiananmen Square.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Another butcher of the Chinese language
- De Jack Hanson en 09-19-21
- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- De: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
Poorly Selected Reader
Revisado: 09-02-21
The book was great, but the performance left much to be desired. I’m not trying to be unkind but the voice and speech pattern were wooden, rigid and robotic in a way that detracted. More importantly, with that many Chinese terms and quotes in the book, they really should have selected someone with an ability to pronounce Chinese correctly. His Chinese pronunciation was atrocious and incomprehensible and at times that made it difficult to understand the referenced name, city or quotation.
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