Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth

Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Edward Luce
• Narrated By Ralph Lister
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In Time to Start Thinking, Edward Luce offers an incisive and highly engaging account of America’s economic and geopolitical decline. The Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times for the last four years, Luce has traveled the country interviewing public officials like Lawrence Summers and Senator Don Riegle, business leaders including Jeff Immelt and Bill Gates, as well as teachers, health care workers, and scientists.

When Corporations Rule the World, Second Edition

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 18 mins)
• By David C. Korten
• Narrated By Traber Burns

When Corporations Rule the World explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest. It documents the devastating human and environmental consequences of the successful efforts of these corporations to reconstruct values and institutions everywhere on the planet to serve their own narrow ends.

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 47 mins)
• By David C. Korten
• Narrated By Sandra Swafford

David Korten argues that global corporate consolidation of power is but one manifestation of what he calls "Empire", the organization of society by hierarchies of dominance that have held sway for the past 5,000 years. Empire has always resulted in misery for the many and fortune for the few. Now it threatens the very future of humanity. The Great Turning traces the ancient roots of Empire and charts its long evolution from monarchies to the transnational institutions of the global economy.

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 38 mins)
• By James Lovelock
• Narrated By Simon Vance

In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, British scientist James Lovelock predicts global warming will lead to a Hot Epoch. Lovelock is best known for formulating the controversial Gaia theory in the 1970s, with Ruth Margulis of the University of Massachusetts, which states that organisms interact with and regulate Earth's surface and atmosphere. We ignore this interaction at our peril.

Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Richard Heinberg
• Narrated By Edward Dalmas

Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will have to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. This latest book from Richard Heinberg, author of three of the most important books on Peak Oil, touches on the most important aspects of the human condition at this unique moment in time.

A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book tells how we might make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty with grace and satisfaction....