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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180108 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180108] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization Author: Thomas L. Friedman Narrator: Thomas L. Friedman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 1 minute Release date: July 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled to the four corners of the globe, interviewing people from all walks of contemporary life -- peasants in the Amazon rain forest, new entrepreneurs in Indonesia, Islamic students in Teheran, and the financial wizards on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley. Now Friedman has drawn on his years on the road to produce an engrossing and original look at the new international system that, more than anything else, is shaping world affairs today: globalization. His argument can be summarized quite simply. Globalization is not just a phenomenon and not just a passing trend. It is the international system that replaced the Cold War system. Globalization is the integration of capital, technology and information across national borders, in a way that is creating a single global market and to some degree, a global village. You cannot understand the morning news or know where to invest you money or think about where the world is going unless you understand this new system, which is influencing the domestic policies and international relations of virtually every country in the world today. And once you do understand the world as Friedman explains it, you'll never look at it quite the same way again. Using original terms and concepts -- from 'The Electronic Herd' to 'DOScapital 6.0' -- Friedman shows us how to see this new system. With vivid stories, he dramatizes the conflict of 'The Lexus and the Olive Tree' -- the tension between the globalization system and ancient forms of culture, geography, tradition and community -- and spells out what we all need to do to keep this system in balance. Finding the proper balance between the Lexus and the olive tree is the great drama of the globilization era, and the ultimate theme of Friedman's challenging, provocative book -- essential listening for all who care about how the world really works.

The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177880 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177880] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die Author: Niall Ferguson Narrator: Paul Slack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Bestselling 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.

Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World by George Gilder

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177846 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177846] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World Author: George Gilder Narrator: David Cochran Heath Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Just when our economy desperately needs a new direction, Ronald Reagan's most quoted living author—George Gilder—is back with an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism that will upturn conventional wisdom. America's struggling economy needs a better philosophy than the college student's lament, 'I can't be out of money, I still have checks in my checkbook!' We've tried a government spending spree, and we've learned it doesn't work. Now is the time to rededicate our country to the pursuit of free-market capitalism, before we're buried under a mound of debt and unfunded entitlements. But how do we navigate between government spending that's too big to sustain and financial institutions that are 'too big to fail?' In Knowledge and Power, George Gilder proposes a bold new theory on how capitalism produces wealth and how our economy can regain its vitality and growth. Gilder breaks away from the supply-side model of economics to present a new economic paradigm: the epic conflict between the knowledge of entrepreneurs on one side, the blunt power of government on the other. The knowledge of entrepreneurs and their freedom to share and use that knowledge are the sparks that light up the economy and set its gears in motion. The power of government to regulate, stifle, manipulate, subsidize, or suppress knowledge and ideas is the inertia that slows those gears down or keeps them from turning at all. One of the twentieth century's defining economic minds has returned with a new philosophy to carry us into the twenty-first. Knowledge and Power is a must-read for fiscal conservatives, business owners, CEOs, investors, and anyone interested in propelling America's economy to future success.

Comeback: America's New Economic Boom by Charles Morris

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180092 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180092] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Comeback: America's New Economic Boom Author: Charles Morris Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 28, 2013 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Charles R. Morris’s The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008) was the first book to warn of the impending financial crash in all its horrific scale and speed. Now, with Comeback, Morris reveals that the United States is on the brink of a strong recovery that could last for twenty years or more. The great economic boom times in American history have come because of fortuitous discoveries. Natural resources (coal first, then oil) fueled vast economic and industrial expansions, which in turn helped create and supply new markets. The last genuine economic game changer was the technology boom of the 1990s, which gave the U.S. a global competitive advantage for a while based on electronics and silicon. One of the first writers and analysts in the U.S. to predict that the tech boom would lead to a period of sustained economic growth was Charles Morris. In defiance of the recessionary times (in 1990), he saw the coming boom. Now, in 2013, he sees the threshold of another. This time the gift is natural gas. The amount and distribution of gas in American shale is so vast that it has the potential to transform the manufacturing economy, creating jobs across the country, and requiring a new infrastructure that will benefit the nation as a whole. Because of fracking, jobs that once would have been outsourced abroad will return home, America can become a net exporter of energy, and cheap energy will provide the opportunity for innovation and competition. In light of this new opportunity, and other complementary developments Morris explores in this book, the U.S. ought to be approaching the future with a robust self-confidence it has not experienced in a while. But we could fumble it away. The gold-rush style of shale boom companies does not make them good neighbors. A counter-reaction could put their industry, and the new era of national prosperity, at risk. We also have a political system that has the capacity to spoil the benefits of this huge boon. If the wealth locked in the continental shelf is not shared for the general economic good, but is instead exploited in short-term profiteering, then many of the opportunities that exist will be choked off by a few very rich corporations. Managing the great bonus of the vast store of cheap energy is going to become a defining political challenge in the years ahead. At the threshold of a thrilling opportunity, Morris is a brilliantly perceptive guide.

The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills by Sanjay Basu, David Stuckler

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177201 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177201] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills Author: Sanjay Basu, David Stuckler Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Politicians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impacts of the recent financial crisis, but many continue to ignore its disastrous effects on human health—and have even exacerbated them, by adopting harsh austerity measures and cutting key social programs at a time when constituents need them most. The result, as pioneering public health experts David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu reveal in this provocative audiobook, is that many countries have turned their recessions into veritable epidemics, ruining or extinguishing thousands of lives in a misguided attempt to balance budgets and shore up financial markets. Yet sound alternative policies could instead help improve economies and protect public health at the same time. In The Body Economic, Stuckler and Basu mine data from around the globe and throughout history to show how government policy becomes a matter of life and death during financial crises. In a series of historical case studies stretching from 1930s America, to Russia and Indonesia in the 1990s, to present-day Greece, Britain, Spain, and the U.S., Stuckler and Basu reveal that governmental mismanagement of financial strife has resulted in a grim array of human tragedies, from suicides to HIV infections. Yet people can and do stay healthy, and even get healthier, during downturns. During the Great Depression, U.S. deaths actually plummeted, and today Iceland, Norway, and Japan are happier and healthier than ever, proof that public wellbeing need not be sacrificed for fiscal health. Full of shocking and counterintuitive revelations and bold policy recommendations, The Body Economic offers an alternative to austerity—one that will prevent widespread suffering, both now and in the future.