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Plunder
- Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
- De: Brendan Ballou
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
Private equity surrounds us. Firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR are among the largest employers in America and hold assets that rival those of small countries. Yet few understand what these firms are or how they work. In Plunder, Brendan Ballou explains how private equity has reshaped American business by raising prices, reducing quality, cutting jobs, and shifting resources from productive to unproductive parts of the economy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't waste your time or credit
- De Navillus82 en 05-07-23
- Plunder
- Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
- De: Brendan Ballou
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
Great topic and great detail
Revisado: 05-06-23
Many compelling stories of the macro economic and even personal harms of the rise of private equity. Though I share much of the author's critique and policy interests, I wish the book had more high level political and economic context. There's plenty of history, to be sure, but it seems aimed at gotchas about the voting records of specific politicians rather than discussing the sometimes very reasonable choices the American electorate and leaders made that had unintended side effects. Here, we get the side effects without the counterweight of many of the positive primary effects of policy initiatives. Still a good read on an issue of rapidly growing importance.
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Master and Commander
- Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 1
- De: Patrick O'Brian
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,416
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,817
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,787
This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the road of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Choice of Narrators
- De Frank R. Adams en 04-23-10
- Master and Commander
- Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 1
- De: Patrick O'Brian
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
A classic equaled by it's narration.
Revisado: 08-07-21
Having read the book a couple times, I knew it had a great story. This audiobook version has an excellent narrator that does total justice to the written word.
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