Equality
What It Means and Why It Matters
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In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Ranging across economics, philosophy, history, and current affairs, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel consider how far we have come in achieving greater equality. At the same time, they confront head-on the extreme divides that remain in wealth, income, power, and status nationally and globally.
What can be done at a time of deep political instability and environmental crisis? Piketty and Sandel agree on much: more inclusive investment in health and education, higher progressive taxation, curbing the political power of the rich and the overreach of markets. But how far and how fast can we push? Should we prioritize material or social change? What are the prospects for any change at all with nationalist forces resurgent? How should the left relate to values like patriotism and local solidarity where they collide with the challenges of mass migration and global climate change?
To see Piketty and Sandel grapple with these and other problems is to glimpse new possibilities for change and justice but also the stubborn truth that progress towards greater equality never comes quickly or without deep social conflict and political struggle.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book - but most is not about US
- De Scott Klinger en 03-16-22
De: Thomas Piketty
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- De: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrado por: Michael J. Sandel
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- De Robert McIntosh en 09-18-20
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The Economics of Inequality
- De: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
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Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty’s The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics. This work now appears in English for the first time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Survey of the Economics of Inequality
- De Darwin8u en 12-19-16
De: Thomas Piketty, y otros
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The Case Against Perfection
- De: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
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Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature - to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The author made his case considering objections
- De Philippe en 01-30-24
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What Money Can't Buy
- The Moral Limits of Markets
- De: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrado por: Michael J. Sandel
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Challenging
- De Kendra en 02-25-13
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- De: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 24 h y 58 m
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What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Financial Times' Critique Doesn't Detract
- De Madeleine en 05-22-14
De: Thomas Piketty, y otros
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Justice
- De: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrado por: Michael J. Sandel
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Do individual rights and the common good conflict? These questions are at the core of our public life today - and at the heart of Justice, in which Michael J. Sandel shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us to make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very worthwhile book
- De Amazon Customer en 11-11-09
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Righteous Strife
- How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union
- De: Richard Carwardine
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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How did slavery figure in God’s plan? Was it the providential role of government to abolish this sin and build a righteous nation? Or did such a mission amount to “religious tyranny” and “pulpit politics,” in an effort to strip the southern states of their God-given rights? In 1861, in an already fracturing nation, the tensions surrounding this moral quandary cracked the United States in half, and even formed rifts within the North itself, where antislavery religious nationalists butted heads with conservative religious nationalists over their visions for America’s future.
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The Archaeology of Knowledge
- And the Discourse on Language
- De: Michel Foucault
- Narrado por: James Gillies
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of things aid and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methodological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now.
De: Michel Foucault
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The Road to Freedom
- Economics and the Good Society
- De: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America's current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. These movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Send neoliberalism into the abyss where it belongs
- De marwalk en 08-16-24
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The Plunder of Black America
- How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
- De: Calvin Schermerhorn
- Narrado por: Lisa S. Ware
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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Historian Calvin Schermerhorn traces four hundred years of Black dispossession and decapitalization—what Frederick Douglass called plunder—through the stories of families who have strived to earn and keep the fruits of their toils. Their struggles reveal that the ever-evolving strategies to strip Black income and wealth have been critical to sustaining a structure of racialized disadvantage. These accounts also tell of the quiet heroism of those who worked to overcome obstacles and defy the plunder.
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The Capital Order
- How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
- De: Clara E. Mattei
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. Today, an important question remains: What if solvency was never the goal? In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval from below.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must listen to. Essential.
- De Gus More en 01-03-25
De: Clara E. Mattei
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The Art of More
- How Mathematics Created Civilization
- De: Michael Brooks
- Narrado por: Nick Afka Thomas
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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In this captivating, sweeping history, Michael Brooks makes clear that mathematics was one of the foundational innovations that catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to civilization, and that it has been instrumental in every subsequent great leap of humankind: from charting the movements of celestial bodies to navigating the globe to tracking the dissemination of viruses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- De Cinski446 en 07-12-22
De: Michael Brooks
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .
- Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
- De: Steven Pinker
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or “out there,” is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives.
De: Steven Pinker
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Stuck
- How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
- De: Yoni Appelbaum
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11
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In this illuminating debut, Yoni Appelbaum, historian and journalist for The Atlantic, shows us that this idea has been under attack since reformers first developed zoning laws to ghettoize Chinese Americans in nineteenth-century Modesto, California. The century of legal segregation that ensued—from the zoning laws enacted to force Jewish workers back into New York’s Lower East Side to the private-sector discrimination and racist public policy that trapped Black families in Flint, Michigan to Jane Jacobs’ efforts to protect her vision of the West Village.
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5 out of 5 stars
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land of opportunity
- De Anonymous User en 03-16-25
De: Yoni Appelbaum
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Siliconned
- How the Tech Industry Solves Fake Problems, Hoards Idle Workers, and Makes Doomed Bets with Other People's Money
- De: Emmanuel Maggiori
- Narrado por: Ariel Paredes
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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A start-up wastes a billion dollars making videos nobody wants to watch. A city rushes to build landing pads for flightless air taxi prototypes. Tech giants hire thousands of techies for fake projects to stop them working for rivals. The tech industry has a tendency to go crazy. In Siliconned, industry insider Emmanuel Maggiori decodes tech’s hysteria and explains why we all pay the price for it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellently written and extremely informative.
- De Robert en 11-06-24