Economic Con

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    • How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies
    • By: Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington
    • Narrated by: Amy Finegan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry—and what to do about it....

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    • Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
    • By: Dan Davies
    • Narrated by: Peter Dickson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want....

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    • How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies
    • By: Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington
    • Narrated by: Amy Finegan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change....

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    • How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
    • By: Ellen E. Schultz
    • Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • It’s no secret that hundreds of companies have been slashing pensions and health coverage earned by millions of retirees. Employers blame an aging workforce, stock market losses, and spiraling costs....

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    • Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Patrick Egan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,011 ratings
    • The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history. The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters....

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    • Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
    • By: Frank Partnoy
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • At the height of the roaring 20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies....

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    • A Forgotten Story of Genius, Fraud, and Finance in the Roaring Twenties
    • By: Martin Vander Weyer
    • Narrated by: James Conlan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A richly detailed Edwardian true crime story of an extraordinary fraud, full of parallels to contemporary financial upheavals, from Bernie Madoff to the 2008 global financial crash....

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    • By: Gloria Álvarez Cross
    • Narrated by: Jackie Junguito
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-18
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Gloria Álvarez desmonta con humor y sencillez los mitos, argumentos, e ideas preconcebidas de los nuevos izquierdistas, entendidos estos como un colectivo de extrema izquierda que, desde una posición de superioridad moral, dicen defender los intereses de la clase trabajadora....

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    • How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics
    • By: Jonathan Chait
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • American politics has been hijacked. Not by "neocons" or "theocons", but by a fringe group of economic extremists....

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    • The Bribes, Favors, and Phonies behind the College Cheating Scandal
    • By: Nicole LaPorte
    • Narrated by: Betsy Foldes Meiman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • This entertaining exposé on how the other half gets in tells the shockingly true story of the Varsity Blues scandal, and all of the crazy parents, privilege, and con men involved....

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    • Cómo la nueva economía del comportamiento ayuda a vencer la pobreza en el mundo [Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy]
    • By: Dean Karlan, Jacob Appel
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 01-13-26
    • Language: Spanish
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    • En este libro pionero, Karlan y Appel conjugan la economía del comportamiento con la investigación de campo....

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    • Wie die Beratungsbranche unsere Unternehmen schwächt [How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies]
    • By: Mariana Mazzucato
    • Narrated by: Thomas Höricht
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-23
    • Language: German
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    • Es gab Zeiten, da haben Berater einfach Firmen beraten, heute steuern sie in vielen LAndern die RegierungsgeschAfte und beeinflussen die Gesetzgebung. Das Outsourcing von staatlichen Aufgaben hat exorbitant zugenommen, Unsummen an Steuergeldern fließen in die Consulting-Industrie....

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    • How the Ponzi House Crisis Was Contrived
    • By: Gary Anderson
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Lee
    • Length: 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A financial crime of the 21st century that makes Madoff look like an amateur because of scale. This crime is complex, but it is not rocket science. The proof of culpability can be known....

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    • How Scammers, Grifters, Con Artists and Influencers Are Taking Over the Internet – and Why We're Following
    • By: Gabrielle Bluestone
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-21
    • Language: English
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    • From Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age - and why we can’t stop falling for them....

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    • Iniciando un Negocio (1) [Starting a Business (1)]
    • By: Ying Sa
    • Narrated by: Jessica Trinidad
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-21
    • Language: Spanish
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    • Cita con Ying @ 8am es un manual de negocios que, a través de historias y de un formato de fácil lectura, ofrece a quienes son nuevos en el mundo los negocios una forma compasiva de considerarse a sí mismos: como empresarios inmigrantes....

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