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- South Africa’s Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead
- Narrado por: Lungile Lallie
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"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up one of the most pressing questions the world faces today: Why do some countries succeed at capitalism while others fail?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good global perspective on Capitalism
- De Nellie boi en 05-29-21
De: Hernando de Soto
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For a New Liberty
- The Libertarian Manifesto
- De: Murray N. Rothbard
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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In For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, the ideologies they embrace, and their central plans for using state power against people. Libertarianism is Rothbard's radical alternative that says state power is unworkable and immoral, and ought to be curbed and finally overthrown.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm a Ron Paul Libertarian but this is a good
- De monte reed en 03-20-12
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- De: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 22 h y 34 m
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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today’s developing countries—with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Few forests, but lots of trees
- De Steve Pagano en 10-05-15
De: Francis Fukuyama
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Owning the Earth
- The Transforming History of Land Ownership
- De: Andro Linklater
- Narrado por: J. Paul Guimont
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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The history and evolution of land ownership is a fascinating chronicle in the history of civilization, offering unexpected insights about how various forms of democracy and capitalism developed, as well as a revealing analysis of a future where the Earth must sustain nine billion lives. Seen through the eyes of remarkable individuals - Chinese emperors; German peasants; the 17th century English surveyor William Petty, who first saw the connection between private property and free-market capitalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- De S. Olsen en 06-30-15
De: Andro Linklater
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The Great Degeneration
- How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Paul Slack
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
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Best-selling author and world-renowned historian Niall Ferguson has won widespread acclaim for thought-provoking works such as Civilization and High Financier. The Great Degeneration tackles nothing less than the decline of Western civilization. Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the erosion of the West’s once rock-solid foundations. Ferguson excavates the causes and shows how heroic leadership and radical reform are needed to right the course.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb as always!
- De Ivanhoe en 08-28-17
De: Niall Ferguson
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The Socialist Temptation
- De: Iain Murray
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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Just 30 years ago, socialism seemed utterly discredited. An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unfortunately, bad ideas never truly go away — and socialism has come back with a vengeance. A generation of young people who don’t remember the misery that socialism inflicted on Russia and Eastern Europe is embracing it all over again.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This was a tough listen
- De bksander01 en 03-20-23
De: Iain Murray
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Blood Oil
- Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World
- De: Leif Wenar
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 20 h y 27 m
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Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo's militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West - and the ultimate source of their resource money is us, paying at the gas station and the mall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Caveat: Human beings -- Totally untrustworthy
- De lost the power cord could you send me another cord address 13 east wilmont ave somers point nj 08244 en 05-17-16
De: Leif Wenar
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Colonialism
- A Moral Reckoning
- De: Nigel Biggar
- Narrado por: Matt Bates
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’—that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever. Now, however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and China rising to challenge the post-1945 world order, the liberal West faces major threats. These threats are not only external. Especially in the Anglosphere, the ‘decolonisation’ movement corrodes the West’s self-confidence by retelling the history of European and American colonial dominance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding Report on one of the greatest empires ever.
- De mcasteli en 02-22-23
De: Nigel Biggar
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A New Textbook of Americanism
- De: Jonathan Hoenig - editor
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hoenig
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Most people have no idea what the United States represents. Ayn Rand did grasp America's political essence down to its roots. Seventy-two years in the making, this book illuminates why the United States is "the only moral country in the history of the world" and features never-before-published discussions with Ayn Rand, plus work from Leonard Peikoff and the New Intellectuals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Introduction to Objectionism
- De Lester C Liby en 06-27-19
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Ill Fares the Land
- De: Tony Judt
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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In Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt masterfully crystallizes what we've all been feeling into a way to think our way into, and thus out of, our great collective dis-ease about the current state of things.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Blah, Blah, Blah.
- De Michael en 07-15-10
De: Tony Judt
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The Color of Money
- Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
- De: Mehrsa Baradaran
- Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
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When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. The catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Both a Bridge and a Battle Cry
- De Darwin8u en 09-26-17
De: Mehrsa Baradaran
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Golden Gulag
- Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
- De: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Narrado por: Machelle Williams
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world". Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Started off great but devolved into case study
- De normal person en 10-16-21
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Free to Choose
- A Personal Statement
- De: Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, teamed up to write this most convincing and readable guide, which illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society. They show how freedom has been eroded and prosperity undermined through the rapid growth of governmental agencies, laws, and regulations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De Erik en 01-21-08
De: Milton Friedman, y otros
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Impossible Subjects
- Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
- De: Mae M. Ngai
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in US immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent introduction to USA immigration
- De David en 03-17-23
De: Mae M. Ngai
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American Character
- A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
- De: Colin Woodard
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in our history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention and in the run-up to the Civil War to the fights surrounding the agenda of the Progressives, the New Deal, the civil rights movement, and the Tea Party.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Biased Misrepresentation
- De Jay Ehret en 06-24-16
De: Colin Woodard
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Radical Markets
- Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
- De: Eric A. Posner, E. Glen Weyl
- Narrado por: James Conlan
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking - and pretty much all conventional thinking about markets, both for and against - on its head. The book reveals bold new ways to organize markets for the good of everyone.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible Reader ruins this book
- De Brian W. Veit en 10-30-18
De: Eric A. Posner, y otros
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Libertarianism
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- De: Jason Brennan
- Narrado por: Nicholas Ramsey
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historically, Americans have seen libertarians as far outside the mainstream, but with the rise of the Tea Party movement, libertarian principles have risen to the forefront of Republican politics. But libertarianism is more than the philosophy of individual freedom and unfettered markets that Republicans have embraced. Indeed, as Jason Brennan points out, libertarianism is a quite different - and far richer - system of thought than most of us suspect. In this timely new entry in Oxford's acclaimed series What Everyone Needs to Know, Brennan offers a nuanced portrait of libertarianism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very informative
- De S. Schmidt en 09-21-19
De: Jason Brennan
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Land Matters
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- Rurik McKaiser
- 04-19-22
Wow!
One of the best books I have ever read!!!!
A long overdue masterpiece and Masterclass produced by a genius.
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- Sinenkosi Dlamini
- 07-14-22
The Land is Ours
Can we also get 'The Land is Ours' on audible please? This is a great work. Thanks and well done Advocate.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-01-22
Banks need to join the land expropriation party
I'm happy that thus book dived into the uncomfortable topic of how the banks will be affected by land expropriation
Though no definite answer was provided; I sure appreciated the suggestions which need a national debate
South African banks need to give their position/proposal on expropriation of land with/without compensation
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