Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein

A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation by Scott Nations

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293095 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293095] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation Author: Scott Nations Narrator: Christopher Grove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 13, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history in the vein of the works of Michael Lewis and Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial executive and CNBC contributor examines the five most significant stock market crashes in the United States over the past century, revealing how they have defined the nation today. THE PANIC OF 1907; BLACK TUESDAY (1929); BLACK MONDAY (1987); THE GREAT RECESSION (2008); THE FLASH CRASH (2010): Each of these financial implosions that caused a catastrophic drop in the American stock market is a remarkable story in its own right. But taken together, they offer a unique financial history of the American century. In A History of the United States in Five Crashes, financial executive and CNBC contributor Scott Nations examines these precipitous dips, revealing how each played a role in America’s political and cultural fabric, one building upon the next to create the nation we know today. Scott Nations identifies the factors behind the disastrous runs on banks that led to the Panic of 1907, the first great scare of the twentieth century. He explains why 1920s America adopted investment trusts—a practice that helped post—World War I Britain—and how they were a primary catalyst of the 1929 crash. He explores America’s love affair with an expanding stock market in the 1980s—which spawned the birth of portfolio insurance that significantly contributed to the 1987 crash. And he examines the factors that led to the 2008 global meltdown, and the rise of algorithmic trading, the modern financial technology that sparked the 2010 Flash Crash when American stocks lost a trillion dollars in minutes. A History of the United States in Five Crashes clearly and compellingly illustrates the connections between these financial collapses and examines the solid, clear-cut lessons they offer for preventing the next one.

The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America by Rick Wartzman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292501 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292501] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America Author: Rick Wartzman Narrator: Rick Wartzman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 30, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers -- General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola -- he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of the post-World War II economy, these companies also believed that worker pay needed to be kept high in order to preserve morale and keep the economy humming. Productivity boomed. But the corporate social contract didn't last. By tracing the ups and downs of these four corporate icons over seventy years, Wartzman illustrates just how much has been lost: job security and steadily rising pay, guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits, and much more. Charting the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s; the turbulent years of the '70s and '80s; and the growth of downsizing, outsourcing, and instability in the modern era, Wartzman's narrative is a biography of the American Dream gone sideways. Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty will make you rethink how Americans can begin to resurrect the middle class. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize in current interestA best business book of the year in economics, Strategy+Business

Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293124 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293124] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment Author: Yanis Varoufakis Narrator: Leighton Pugh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis. *** 'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) *** What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power. Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history when, as finance minister of Greece, he attempted to re-negotiate his country’s relationship with the EU. Despite the mass support of the Greek people and the simple logic of his arguments, he succeeded only in provoking the fury of Europe’s political, financial and media elite. But the true story of what happened is almost entirely unknown – not least because so much of the EU’s real business takes place behind closed doors. In this fearless account, Varoufakis reveals all: an extraordinary tale of brinkmanship, hypocrisy, collusion and betrayal that will shake the deep establishment to its foundations. As is now clear, the same policies that required the tragic and brutal suppression of Greece’s democratic uprising have led directly to authoritarianism, populist revolt and instability throughout the Western world. Adults In The Room is an urgent wake-up call to renew European democracy before it is too late.

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292227 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292227] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition Author: Charles Eisenstein Narrator: Steve Wojtas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.   This book is about how the money system will have to change—and is already changing—to embody this transition. A broadly integrated synthesis of theory, policy, and practice, Sacred Economics explores avant-garde concepts of the New Economics, including negative-interest currencies, local currencies, resource-based economics, gift economies, and the restoration of the commons. Author Charles Eisenstein also considers the personal dimensions of this transition, speaking to those concerned with 'right livelihood' and how to live according to their ideals in a world seemingly ruled by money. Tapping into a rich lineage of conventional and unconventional economic thought, Sacred Economics presents a vision that is original yet commonsense, radical yet gentle, and increasingly relevant as the crises of our civilization deepen. Sacred Economics official website: http://sacred-economics.com/

Capitalists, Arise!: End Economic Inequality, Grow the Middle Class, Heal the Nation by Peter Georgescu

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291449 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291449] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Capitalists, Arise!: End Economic Inequality, Grow the Middle Class, Heal the Nation Author: Peter Georgescu Narrator: Wes Bleed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 1, 2017 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Peter Georgescu explains how his American Dream journey-from refugee to the CEO of Young & Rubicam-is no longer possible, and the underlying culprit is shareholder primacy. The income gap is growing larger and larger, and Georgescu argues that only a return to a true form of capitalism will begin to decrease that gap. Peter Georgescu is scared, as are some of his more farsighted fellow millionaires and billionaires-not 'of Al Qaeda or the vicious Islamic State or some other evolving radical group . . . We are afraid of where income inequality will lead.' So begins both his 2015 op-ed piece in the New York Times, which generated over 1,000 comments, and this book. Georgescu believes the capitalism that allowed a penniless refugee like him to rise to the top no longer exists. He vividly depicts the damage income inequality is doing and examines the trends and developments that have led to our current crisis. He argues to his fellow capitalists that they are the ones best positioned to fix this problem because they can directly address it. They need to look beyond a single-minded focus on maximizing the short-term profits their shareholders demand and serve the interests of all their stakeholders-employees, customers, society, and the environment. This book offers solutions, which are deep, rich, and compelling.