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- De Harish G. Naik en 03-02-19
De: Jesse Norman
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Money Mischief
- Episodes in Monetary History
- De: Milton Friedman
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 266
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What kind of mischief can result from misunderstanding the monetary system? The work of 2 obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan, as well as Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to appease a few senators from the American West who helped communism triumph in China, are just 2 such mishaps cited in this important work by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman. This accessible work also provides an in-depth discussion on the creation of value.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This book is not unabridged.
- De James en 01-18-09
De: Milton Friedman
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,751
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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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When Money Dies
- The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany
- De: Adam Fergusson
- Narrado por: Antony Ferguson
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nations currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for staples such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a lump of coal; and a bottle of paraffin for a silk shirt....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Useless details, missing the big points
- De Jean Le Lupi en 07-04-12
De: Adam Fergusson
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The Conquest of Bread
- De: Pyotr Kropotkin
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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In The Conquest of Bread, first published in 1892, Kropotkin set out his ideas on how his heightened idealism could work. It was all the more extraordinary because he was born into an aristocratic land-owning family - with some 1,200 male serfs - though from his student years his liberal views and his fixation on the need for social change saw him take a revolutionary path. This led rapidly to decades of exile. It is a passionate, even a fierce polemic for dramatic social change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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“All is for All”
- De Gabriel en 01-02-19
De: Pyotr Kropotkin
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The Conquest of Bread
- De: Peter Kropotkin
- Narrado por: Jim D Johnston
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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Originally written in French, The Conquest of Bread first appeared as a series of articles in the anarchist journal Le Révolté. It was first published in Paris with a preface by Élisée Reclus, who also suggested the title. Between 1892 and 1894, it was serialized in part in the London journal Freedom, of which Kropotkin was a co-founder. In the work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the defects of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism and why he believes they thrive on and maintain poverty and scarcity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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If we were all perfect. That's a big if.
- De DesmoProfundis en 06-07-21
De: Peter Kropotkin
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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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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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- De: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 525
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 436
Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the West and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the repercussions of European colonialism in Africa remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Superb must read for everyone
- De Joy en 04-16-19
De: Walter Rodney, y otros
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Defending the Undefendable
- De: Walter Block
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 160
Professor Block's book is among the most famous of the great defenses of victimless crimes and controversial economic practices, from profiteering and gouging to bribery and blackmail. However, beneath the surface, this book is also an outstanding work of microeconomic theory that explains the workings of economic forces in everyday events and affairs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stretching My Mind
- De Johnny Noob en 12-14-11
De: Walter Block
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Money
- The Unauthorized Biography
- De: Felix Martin
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind’s greatest inventions.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to imagine how it could be worse
- De J. M. Batista en 09-19-17
De: Felix Martin
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How Much is Enough?
- Money and the Good Life
- De: Edward Skidelsky
- Narrado por: Clay Teunis
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 38
What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some of the questions that many asked themselves when the financial system crashed in 2008. This book tackles such questions head-on.The authors begin with the great economist John Maynard Keynes. In 1930 Keynes predicted that, within a century, per capita income would steadily rise, people’s basic needs would be met, and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected at all!
- De Chi en 05-22-23
De: Edward Skidelsky
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The Victory of Reason
- How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
- De: Rodney Stark
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 96
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In The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark advances a revolutionary, controversial, and long overdue idea: that Christianity and its related institutions are, in fact, directly responsible for the most significant intellectual, political, scientific, and economic breakthroughs of the past millennium. In Stark's view, what has propelled the West is not the tension between secular and non-secular society, nor the pitting of science and the humanities against religious belief. Christian theology, Stark asserts, is the very font of reason.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely incredible history book!
- De Daniel en 01-02-20
De: Rodney Stark
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The Constitution of Liberty
- The Definitive Edition
- De: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
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The Constitution of Liberty is considered Hayek's classic statement on the ideals of freedom and liberty, ideals that he believes have guided - and must continue to guide - the growth of Western civilization. Here, Hayek defends the principles of a free society, casting a skeptical eye on the growth of the welfare state and examining the challenges to freedom posed by an ever-expanding government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very detailed and important
- De Big Kyle 570 en 06-17-20
De: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, y otros
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Slavery's Capitalism
- A New History of American Economic Development
- De: Sven Beckert - editor, Seth Rockman - editor
- Narrado por: William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 424
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During the 19th century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The volume is so low I can't hear it.
- De Anonymous User en 01-30-18
De: Sven Beckert - editor, y otros
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Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- De: David Graeber
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,697
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,102
Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transformative to the point of being revolutionary
- De James C. Samans en 08-14-16
De: David Graeber
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The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, is the first book of modern political economy and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline. Along with important discussions of economics and political theory, Smith mixed plain common sense with large measures of history, philosophy, psychology, sociology and much else. Few texts remind us so clearly that the Enlightenment was very much a lived experience, a concern with improving them human condition in practical ways for real people.
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It is a long read/listen, but the best introduction to capitalist economics I have read.
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The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words.
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ADAM SMITH
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) was the first major text by Adam Smith who, seven years later, was to publish what was to become one of the major economic classics, The Wealth of Nations (1776). However, Smith regarded The Theory of Moral Sentiments as his most important work because in it he identified the profound human instinct to act not necessarily in self-interest but through, as he phrased it, a ‘mutual sympathy of sentiments’.
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What Makes Humans Humane
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
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First published in 1936, Keynes’ ideas had evolved during the difficulties following World War 1 in Europe, and the US crash and the Depression of the 1920s-'30s and the misery of mass unemployment. He deplored the situation where a few individuals or companies stored massive wealth while vast numbers experienced poverty and insecurity (his alarm bells ring today!) and sought to promote initiatives where governments could intervene with social projects to keep money fluctuating.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Get the paperback
- De Brendan Clune en 02-27-19
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The Wealth of Nations
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Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations has influenced economic thinkers for generations. Smith was a firm believer that the economic progress of any nation was tied to free trade and the division of labor.
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations, his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. It earned him an enormous reputation and would become one of the most influential works on economics ever published. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics and capitalism. Smith studied social philosophy at the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford.
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The Wealth of Nations
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The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, is the first book of modern political economy and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline. Along with important discussions of economics and political theory, Smith mixed plain common sense with large measures of history, philosophy, psychology, sociology and much else. Few texts remind us so clearly that the Enlightenment was very much a lived experience, a concern with improving them human condition in practical ways for real people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It is a long read/listen, but the best introduction to capitalist economics I have read.
- De pems-integ-tests en 12-16-22
De: Adam Smith
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The Wealth of Nations
- De: Adam Smith
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 36 h y 43 m
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The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words.
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4 out of 5 stars
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ADAM SMITH
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 01-20-15
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) was the first major text by Adam Smith who, seven years later, was to publish what was to become one of the major economic classics, The Wealth of Nations (1776). However, Smith regarded The Theory of Moral Sentiments as his most important work because in it he identified the profound human instinct to act not necessarily in self-interest but through, as he phrased it, a ‘mutual sympathy of sentiments’.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What Makes Humans Humane
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First published in 1936, Keynes’ ideas had evolved during the difficulties following World War 1 in Europe, and the US crash and the Depression of the 1920s-'30s and the misery of mass unemployment. He deplored the situation where a few individuals or companies stored massive wealth while vast numbers experienced poverty and insecurity (his alarm bells ring today!) and sought to promote initiatives where governments could intervene with social projects to keep money fluctuating.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Get the paperback
- De Brendan Clune en 02-27-19
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The Wealth of Nations
- De: Adam Smith
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Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations has influenced economic thinkers for generations. Smith was a firm believer that the economic progress of any nation was tied to free trade and the division of labor.
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations, his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. It earned him an enormous reputation and would become one of the most influential works on economics ever published. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics and capitalism. Smith studied social philosophy at the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford.
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The Wealth of Nations
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It was Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) who first established economics as a separate branch of knowledge, and many would say his work has never been surpassed. The Wealth of Nations, which appeared in 1776, is the definitive text for all who believe that economic decisions are best left to markets, not governments. At the heart of Smith’s doctrine is an optimistic view of the effects of self-interest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I'm glad I did the abridged version.
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Adam Smith
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- De: Jesse Norman
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A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time. In Adam Smith, political philosopher Jesse Norman dispels the myths and caricatures, and provides a far more complex portrait of the man. Offering a highly engaging account of Smith's life and times, Norman explores his work as a whole and traces his influence over two centuries to the present day. Finally, he shows how a proper understanding of Smith can help us address the problems of modern capitalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Most excellent book!
- De Harish G. Naik en 03-02-19
De: Jesse Norman
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The Wealth of Nations
- De: Adam Smith
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 40 h y 39 m
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It was Adam Smith (1723-1790) who first established economics as a separate branch of knowledge, and many would say his work has never been surpassed. The Wealth of Nations, which appeared in 1776, is the definitive text for all who believe that economic decisions are best left to markets, not governments. At the heart of Smith's doctrine is an optimistic view of the effects of self-interest. Though each individual seeks only personal gain, the collective result is increased prosperity, which benefits society as a whole.
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Lying
- De: Sam Harris
- Narrado por: Sam Harris
- Duración: 1 h y 15 m
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As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption - even murder and genocide - generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie. In Lying, bestselling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Telling The Truth...
- De Douglas en 11-29-13
De: Sam Harris
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Merchants of Doubt
- How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- De: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Al Gore - foreword
- Narrado por: Liza Seneca
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Merchants of Doubt has been praised—and attacked—around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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heroic
- De Anonymous User en 06-02-23
De: Naomi Oreskes, y otros
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Capitalism and Freedom, Fortieth Anniversary Edition
- De: Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman, Grover Gardner - prologue
- Narrado por: Michael Edwards
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy - one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A poor execution of a great book.
- De Mike S. en 01-25-18
De: Milton Friedman, y otros
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
- De: John Maynard Keynes
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was one of the most important documents to come out of World War I – specifically the period of the Armistice and the subsequent settlement negotiations. And, a century on, it remains of particular relevance to our times – an uncompromising and forthright analysis of how international diplomacy can be suffused by personalities, prejudices, personal ambition and outright, uncontrolled feelings of revenge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Work of Genius
- De philip en 12-24-20
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Human Compatible
- Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
- De: Stuart Russell
- Narrado por: Raphael Corkhill
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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In the popular imagination, superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just jobs and human relationships, but civilization itself. Conflict between humans and machines is seen as inevitable and its outcome all too predictable. In this groundbreaking audiobook, distinguished AI researcher Stuart Russell argues that this scenario can be avoided, but only if we rethink AI from the ground up. Russell begins by exploring the idea of intelligence in humans and in machines.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good General Introduction to AI Topic
- De Catherine Puma en 03-26-20
De: Stuart Russell
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The Nicomachean Ethics
- De: Aristotle, David Ross - translator
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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In the Nicomachean Ethics (so called after their first editor, Aristotle's son Nicomachus) Aristotle sets out to discover the good life for man: the life of happiness or eudaimonia. Happiness for Aristotle is the activity of the soul in accordance with virtue. Virtue is shown in the deliberate choice of actions as part of a worked-out plan of life, a plan which takes a middle course between excess and deficiency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Austin en 03-04-06
De: Aristotle, y otros
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
- De: Edmund Burke
- Narrado por: Bernard Mayes
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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This famous treatise began as a letter to a young French friend who asked Edmund Burke’s opinion on whether France’s new ruling class would succeed in creating a better order. Doubtless the friend expected a favorable reply, but Burke was suspicious of certain tendencies of the Revolution from the start and perceived that the revolutionaries were actually subverting the true "social order". Blending history with principle and graceful imagery with profound practical maxims, this book is one of the most influential political treatises in the history of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good historical perspective
- De CMC en 08-30-14
De: Edmund Burke
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The Affluent Society
- De: John Kenneth Galbraith
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in the words of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge to conventional thought". With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world and lays bare the hazards of individual and societal complacence about economic inequity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good 20+ years after the 40th anniversary edition
- De Munair en 06-18-22
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
- or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
- De: Charles Darwin
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 23 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 257
The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the 19th century and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. Though, in fact, little read, most people know what it says—at least they think they do. The Origin of Species was the first mature and persuasive work to explain how species change through the process of natural selection. Upon its publication, the book began to transform attitudes about society and religion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For aficionados only.
- De Ary Shalizi en 01-11-12
De: Charles Darwin
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Wealth of Nations
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- C. Rushton
- 07-23-22
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Lost interest became board quickly had no desired to finish the book, maybe when I retire I will try to read it again. Thanks for the opportunity but not my cup of tea at the moment....
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- Patrick V. Milord
- 02-05-23
Very good
My only problem is that the audio was a bit off from the book. Other than that, very good.
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- mike s.
- 10-15-20
Classic, but dry
It's hard to enliven a book about economics published in 1776. Hard to distinguish the narrator's delivery from the monotone prose.
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