Social Economics

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    • De: Jerry Z. Muller
    • Narrado por: Matthew Josdal
    • Duración: 5 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-24-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 267 calificaciones
    • Jerry Muller uncovers the damage our obsession with metrics is causing and shows how we can begin to fix the problem. Filled with examples from education, medicine, and more, this book explains why the seemingly irresistible pressure to quantify performance distorts and distracts....

    Precio regular: $13.75

    • The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History
    • De: Barry Eichengreen
    • Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Duración: 22 h y 2 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-17-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system....

    Precio regular: $25.79

    • Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era
    • De: Barry Eichengreen
    • Narrado por: Rick Adamson
    • Duración: 8 h y 37 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-25-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Populism, on both the right and the left, has spread like wildfire throughout Europe and the United States and is making inroads in other parts of the world. In simplest terms, populism is a political ideology that vilifies elites, minorities, and foreigners while lionizing "the people"....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
    • De: Anthony Abraham Jack
    • Narrado por: Mirron Willis
    • Duración: 7 h y 40 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-30-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 calificaciones
    • Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how - and why - disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
    • De: Peter Turchin
    • Narrado por: Robin McAlpine
    • Duración: 10 h y 4 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-13-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 calificaciones
    • Pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics Peter Turchin presents the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • How Prosperity Evolves
    • De: Matt Ridley
    • Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
    • Duración: 13 h y 37 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-18-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,482 calificaciones
    • Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. The pessimists insist that we will reach a turning point and things will get worse. But they have been saying this for 200 years....

    Precio regular: $26.09

    • The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World
    • De: George Gilder
    • Narrado por: David Cochran Heath
    • Duración: 10 h y 9 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-10-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 269 calificaciones
    • Just when our economy desperately needs a new direction, Ronald Reagan’s most quoted living author - George Gilder - is back with an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism that will upturn conventional wisdom....

    Precio regular: $19.74

    • Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
    • De: William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
    • Narrado por: JD Jackson
    • Duración: 14 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-20-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 254 calificaciones
    • Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
    • De: Gabriel Winant
    • Narrado por: BJ Harrison
    • Duración: 13 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-22-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 calificaciones
    • Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today, most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy....

    Precio regular: $20.99

    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • De: Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrado por: Walter Dixon
    • Duración: 14 h y 28 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-11-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 calificaciones
    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

    Precio regular: $25.79

    • De: Paul Krugman
    • Narrado por: Don Leslie
    • Duración: 6 h y 33 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-23-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 277 calificaciones
    • Krugman shows how the failure to keep pace with the out-of-control financial system set the United States, and the world as a whole, up for the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s....

    Precio regular: $14.40

    • Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
    • De: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrado por: Sean Pratt
    • Serie: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Duración: 3 h y 49 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-21-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 77 calificaciones
    • Popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality....

    Precio regular: $13.26

    • Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
    • De: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Duración: 5 h y 11 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-12-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,621 calificaciones
    • From Malcolm Gladwell’s hit podcast Revisionist History comes a compendium about one of his greatest obsessions: education....

    Precio regular: $15.60

    • The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
    • De: Nicholas Mulder
    • Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
    • Duración: 12 h y 25 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-11-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 calificaciones
    • Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early 20th century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age
    • De: Jake S. Friedman
    • Narrado por: Adam Verner
    • Duración: 8 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-05-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 calificaciones
    • Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret
    • De: Catherine Coleman Flowers
    • Narrado por: Karen Chilton
    • Duración: 6 h y 40 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-17-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 calificaciones
    • Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers’s life’s work. It’s a fight for a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
    • De: Andrew Ross Sorkin
    • Narrado por: William Hughes
    • Duración: 21 h y 4 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-30-09
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,890 calificaciones
    • A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter....

    Precio regular: $27.00

    • De: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Duración: 55 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-12-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 calificaciones
    • The appearance of the famous (and massive) volumes of Rothbard's Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought in a new edition is cause for great celebration. Every paragraph bursts with intellectual energy and the author's fiery passion....

    Precio regular: $29.95

    • How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace
    • De: Eric Rauchway
    • Narrado por: Walter Dixon
    • Duración: 10 h y 21 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-04-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 calificaciones
    • Rauchway tells the absorbing story of how FDR and his advisors pulled the levers of monetary policy to save the domestic economy and propel the United States to prosperity....

    Precio regular: $30.08

    • What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
    • De: Heather McGhee
    • Narrado por: Heather McGhee
    • Duración: 11 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-16-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,810 calificaciones
    • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color....

    Precio regular: $18.00

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