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These Are the Plunderers
- How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
- By: Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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These Are the Plunderers traces the thirty-year history of corporate takeovers in America and private equity’s increasing dominance. Morgenson and Rosner investigate some of the biggest names in private equity, exposing how they buy companies, load them with debt, and then bleed them of assets and profits. All while prosecutors and regulators stand idly by.
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These Are the Plunderers
- How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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The Good Ancestor
- How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World
- By: Roman Krznaric
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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In The Good Ancestor, leading popular philosopher and best-selling author Roman Krznaric shows just how crucial long-term thinking is, not just for ordinary people but across political, economic, environmental and business worlds. From the personal to the political, Krznaric identifies the flaws of today’s short-term mindset. Drawing on ideas from a wide range of perspectives including neuroscience, cultural history, politics, economics, art and religion, he offers eight key approaches as a road map for the future of long-term thinking and planning.
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Read it now, and again this time next year
- By Ben Arscott on 10-06-22
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The Good Ancestor
- How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 16-07-20
- Language: English
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North Korea Confidential
- Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
- By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
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North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming majority.
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Readable and eye opening expose on North Korea
- By Adrian J. Smith on 11-09-20
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North Korea Confidential
- Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 03-04-18
- Language: English
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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Award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People’s Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports. Unfolding with great narrative sweep, this riveting, richly detailed chronicle recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers celebrate as an economic miracle.
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Animal Farm but for real
- By Mark Cousins on 25-11-23
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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A World Without Work
- Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond
- By: Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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From mechanical looms to combustion engines to early computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. Yet in A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind shows why this time really is different. Advances in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk.
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Very thought provoking
- By Androcles on 24-12-20
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A World Without Work
- Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond
- Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-01-20
- Language: English
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Exponential
- How to Bridge the Gap Between Technology and Society
- By: Azeem Azhar
- Narrated by: Azeem Azhar
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Over the last decade, Azeem Azhar - writer, technologist and creator of the Exponential View platform - has become our leading thinker on how technology is transforming business, politics and society. Now, Azhar offers a holistic way to think about the effects of new tech. Our society, Azhar argues, is afflicted by an 'exponential gap' - the gulf between the growing pace of technological change, and our institutions' struggle to keep up.
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The book started well and then went exponential!
- By MR DJ COLLINS on 23-10-21
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Exponential
- How to Bridge the Gap Between Technology and Society
- Narrated by: Azeem Azhar
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 07-09-21
- Language: English
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Radical Uncertainty
- Decision-Making for an Unknowable Future
- By: Mervyn King, John Kay
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
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Uncertainty pervades the big decisions we all make in our lives. How much should we pay into our pensions each month? Should we take regular exercise? Expand the business? Change our strategy? Enter a trade agreement? Take an expensive holiday? We do not know what the future will hold. But we must make decisions anyway. So we crave certainties which cannot exist and invent knowledge we cannot have.
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An important topic we’ll described but lacking advice
- By Philip Thorne on 04-05-20
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Radical Uncertainty
- Decision-Making for an Unknowable Future
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 12-03-20
- Language: English
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The Inner Level
- How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being
- By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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In The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett put inequality at the centre of public debate by showing conclusively that less equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across everything from education to life expectancy. The Inner Level now explains how inequality affects us individually, how it alters how we think, feel and behave. It sets out the overwhelming evidence that material inequalities have powerful psychological effects: when the gap between rich and poor increases, so does the tendency to define and value ourselves and others in terms of superiority and inferiority.
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Thoughtful, challenging
- By Ed Freshwater on 04-12-18
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The Inner Level
- How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 30-08-18
- Language: English
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Discrimination and Disparities
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics. It is listenable enough for people with no prior knowledge of economics. Yet the empirical evidence with which it backs up its analysis spans the globe and challenges beliefs across the ideological spectrum.
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Too late I found Thomas Sowell
- By Jas Singh on 16-06-18
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Discrimination and Disparities
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-03-18
- Language: English
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Mother of Invention
- How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
- By: Katrine Marçal, Alex Fleming - translator
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Best-selling author Katrine Marçal reveals the shocking ways our deeply ingrained ideas about gender continue to hold us back. Every day, extraordinary inventions and innovative ideas are side-lined in a world that remains subservient to men.
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Everyone needs to read this
- By Mhairi on 17-07-21
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Mother of Invention
- How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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How to Start a Successful Airbnb Business
- Quit Your Day Job and Earn Full-time Income on Autopilot with a Profitable Airbnb Business, Even if You’re an Absolute Beginner
- By: Walter Grant, Richard Anderson
- Narrated by: James Lee
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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One of the most ideal businesses for those who are just starting out is Airbnb hosting. If you have a property investment, a vacant room, or even just an extra bedspace, you can become an Airbnb host. In fact, more than four million people are currently doing it, and Airbnb says it will need millions more in the coming years. As the world opens up again, and demand for travel picks up, it’s the perfect time to jump into this industry. With insider knowledge from a successful long-time Airbnb host, you can skip over the trial and error, and go directly into doing what works.
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Good Beginner guide
- By Krishna K. on 25-02-24
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How to Start a Successful Airbnb Business
- Quit Your Day Job and Earn Full-time Income on Autopilot with a Profitable Airbnb Business, Even if You’re an Absolute Beginner
- Narrated by: James Lee
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 17-11-21
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- By: Thorstein Veblen
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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In this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed in society results from the tendency to believe that true accomplishment lies in arriving at a condition of ostentatious wealth and status.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Dr. Dylan Evans on 01-10-23
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 19-12-17
- Language: English
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Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market - Scholar's Edition
- By: Murray N. Rothbard
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 57 hrs and 48 mins
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Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise, Man, Economy, and State, and its complementary text, Power and Market, are here combined into a single audiobook edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austrian economic theory, a reconstruction of many aspects of that theory, a rigorous criticism of alternative schools, and an inspiring look at a science of liberty that concerns nearly everything and should concern everyone.
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narrator is like a robot
- By Terry on 15-05-19
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Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market - Scholar's Edition
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 57 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 19-10-15
- Language: English
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Power and Progress
- Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
- By: Simon Johnson, Daron Acemoglu
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
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A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress is not automatic but depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communication can either serve the narrow interests of an elite or become the foundation for widespread prosperity.
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Interesting stories, debatable conclusions
- By Anon on 16-04-24
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Power and Progress
- Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 18-05-23
- Language: English
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The Longevity Imperative
- Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives
- By: Andrew J. Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Chance
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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The last century saw a revolution in life expectancy. Whether you are male or female, born in the global south or north, the chances are that you can expect to live much longer than previous generations. But instead of seeing this as a precious gift of extra life, we see it as a burden, with ageing populations dogged by infirmity, dependent on an ever-decreasing number of young people to support them. Andrew Scott argues it doesn't have to be like that.
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Erudite, thought-provoking and moving
- By MaryShelley on 08-06-24
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The Longevity Imperative
- Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives
- Narrated by: Michael Chance
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 14-03-24
- Language: English
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Bust?
- Saving the Economy, Democracy and Our Sanity
- By: Robert Peston, Kishan Koria
- Narrated by: Nick Biadon
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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We in the West appear to be at a year zero, with the seeming end of the relative peace and prosperity we took for granted. The pandemic, Putin's invasion of Ukraine, growing tension with China, a rolling back of globalisation, Brexit, the return of inflation and painful interest rates - all these have shattered the illusions of the world as we knew it. For years our politicians have said they were going for growth and would ensure that those with least would benefit disproportionately from the proceeds of that growth. They've failed.
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An excellent and impartial view of Britain's malaise and how it is within our control to reverse decline
- By Matt Stagg on 18-03-24
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Bust?
- Saving the Economy, Democracy and Our Sanity
- Narrated by: Nick Biadon
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 26-10-23
- Language: English
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Kochland
- By: Christopher Leonard
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
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The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Google, Goldman Sachs and Kraft Foods combined. But very few people have ever heard of Koch Industries because the billionaire Koch brothers want it that way. Now, in Kochland, Christopher Leonard has managed what no other journalist has done before: to tell the explosive inside story of how the largest private company in the world became that big. In doing so, Leonard also tells the epic tale of the evolution of corporate America over the last half century, in all its glory and rapaciousness.
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Fascinating, well researched, well written
- By Kevin McPhillips on 21-05-20
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Kochland
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-08-19
- Language: English
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The Road to Freedom
- Economics and the Good Society
- By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ‘animal spirits’ capitalism produces not only greater prosperity, but more freedom for individuals in society - and is therefore morally better. But, in The Road to Freedom Stiglitz asks, whose freedom are we – should we be – thinking about? What happens when one person’s freedom comes at the expense of another’s?
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The Road to Freedom
- Economics and the Good Society
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-04-24
- Language: English
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City
- By: Andrea Elliott
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
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Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolise Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani moves with her family from shelter to shelter, this story traces the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north.
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An eye-opening journey, brilliantly read
- By Jen on 05-02-23
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 27-01-22
- Language: English
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Diary of a UK Stock Investor
- By: Chris Chillingworth
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Can you turn £4k into £1,024,867 over 23 years by investing in UK stocks? This is precisely what stock analyst Chris Chillingworth is attempting to achieve. Join him for the highs and the lows of UK stock investing as he documents his process each month.
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