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    The Ideas Industry
    The Ideas Industry ab 14.49 € als epub eBook: How Pessimists Partisans and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    The Ideas Industry
    The Ideas Industry ab 14.49 € als pdf eBook: How Pessimists Partisans and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    November 2019 (English), Hörbuch, Digital, 59min
    In this issue:"This Man Is Disrupting the Cult of the Billionaire": Author Anand Giridharadas is rebuking the idea that philanthropic billionaires are society's heroes. Even some plutocrats are starting to agree with him."New Belgium Brewery's Employees Think like Owners. Because They Are.": The maker of Fat Tire beer has always been innovative, but lately, it's the company's employee-ownership model that's intoxicating capitalist reformers."Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard Talks About the Sustainability Myth, the Problem with Amazon – and Why It's Not Too Late to Save the Planet": Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard set the standard for how a business can mitigate the ravages of capitalism on earth’s environment. At 81 years old, he's just getting started."Ford Foundation's Darren Walker: How to Save Capitalism from Itself": Meet the CEOs, workers, activists, thinkers, policy wonks, and class traitors leading the way toward a more equitable, humane, and democratic economic system that works for the many and not the few. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Borgers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pe/fast/190009/pe_fast_190009_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Ascent of Money
    The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a trade war, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, with his signature clarity and expert lens. The Ascent of Money reveals finance as the backbone of history, casting a new light on familiar events: the Renaissance enabled by Italian foreign exchange dealers, the French Revolution traced back to a stock market bubble, the 2008 crisis traced from America's bankruptcy capital, Memphis, to China's boomtown, Chongqing. We may resent the plutocrats of Wall Street but, as Ferguson argues, the evolution of finance has rivaled the importance of any technological innovation in the rise of civilization. Indeed, to study the ascent and descent of money is to study the rise and fall of Western power itself.
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    Practical Idealism: The Kalergi Plan to Destroy European Peoples , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 283min
    The form of constitution that replaced feudalism and absolutism was democracy; the form of government, plutocracy. Today, democracy is a façade of plutocracy: Since nations would not tolerate a pure form of plutocracy, they were granted nominal powers, while the real power rests in the hands of plutocrats. In republican as well as monarchical democracies, the statesmen are puppets, the capitalists are the puppeteers; they dictate the guidelines of politics, rule through purchase the public opinion of the voters, and through professional and social relationships, the ministers.Instead of the feudal structure of society, the plutocratic stepped in; birth is no more the decisive factor for social rank, but income is. Today’s plutocracy is mightier than yesterday’s aristocracy: Because nobody is above it but the state, which is its tool and helper’s helper.When there was still true blood nobility, the system of aristocracy by birth was fairer than that of the moneyed aristocracy today: because then the ruling caste had a sense of responsibility, culture, and tradition; whereas the class that rules today is barren of feelings of responsibility, culture, or tradition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander Sangmoore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195984/bk_acx0_195984_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Distractions Distortions Deceptions and Outright Lies
    Distractions Distortions Deceptions and Outright Lies ab 21.49 € als Taschenbuch: Diversions That Keep the South Red Poor People Poor and Plutocrats and Oligarchs in Power. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Conflict : Singularity's Children, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 646min
    Conflict: action adventure and techno-utopian manifesto. Book three of Singularity's Children is compelling and provocative - a romp through the alien landscape of our not-so-distant future. The balance is shifting. The Forward Coalition is losing relevance, and the world is slipping through its fingers. But Nebulous and the Kin are still too weak to confront the old bulls, who, cornered and confused, are at their most deadly. Will the fantastic technologies emerging from the Klan Fabs bring utopia as the optimists claim, or only speed the planet toward its inevitable appointment with annihilation?Cold wars are growing hot as governments lash out at what they don’t understand. Mankind’s million-year stint will finally take it to the brink of an abyss, where oceans of darkness await above and below.The fast-paced action ricochets the listener between neon-stained riots of urban flesh and idyllic tropical islands where humans and their BugNet companions have built a pan-species utopia. Conflict crackles with the energy of an approaching storm as plutocrats and blue-eyed idealists face off across a planet bristling with micro-nukes, devilish bio-machines, and weaponized hallucinations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Kenny. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233838/bk_acx0_233838_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 343min
    Mark Twain's lifetime spans America's era of greatest economic growth. And Twain was an active, even giddy, participant in all the great booms and busts of his time, launching himself into one harebrained get-rich-quick scheme after another. But far from striking it rich, the man who coined the term "Gilded Age" failed with comical regularity to join the ranks of plutocrats who made this period in America notorious for its wealth and excess. Instead, Twain's mining firm failed, despite striking real silver. He ended up somehow owing money over his 30,000 acres of inherited land. And his plan to market the mysteriously energizing coca leaves from the Amazon fizzled when no ships would sail to South America. Undaunted, Twain poured his money into the latest newfangled inventions of his time, all of which failed miserably. In Crawford's hilarious telling, the familiar image of Twain takes on a new and surprising dimension. Twain's story of financial optimism and perseverance is a kind of cracked-mirror history of American business itself - in its grandest cockeyed manifestations, its most comical lows, and its determined refusal to ever give up. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Berkrot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008632/bk_tant_008632_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Machado de Assis: 26 Stories (eBook, ePUB)
    This "watershed collection” (Wall Street Journal) now appears in an essential selected paperback edition, with twenty-six of Machado's finest stories. Widely acclaimed as "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” (Susan Sontag), as well as "another Kafka” (Allen Ginsberg), Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro—a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters. In this original paperback, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, "the accomplished duo” (Wall Street Journal) behind the "landmark . . . heroically translated” volume (The New Yorker) of the Collected Stories of Machado de Assis, include twenty-six chronologically ordered stories from the seven story collections published during Machado's life—featuring all-time favorites such as the celebrated novella "The Alienist”; the tragicomic "parable of bureaucracy, madness, and power” (Los Angeles Review of Books), "Midnight Mass”; "The Cane”; and "Father Against Mother.” Ultimately, Machado de Assis: 26 Stories affirms Machado's status as a literary giant who must finally be fully integrated into the world literary canon.
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    Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1001min
    National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2014 A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation. From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy - or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don’t see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes. As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control. He asks probing questions: Why does a government with more success lifting people from poverty than any civilization in history choose to put strict restraints on freedom of expression? Why do millions of young Chinese professionals - fluent in English and devoted to Western pop culture - consider themselves "angry youth", dedicated to resisting the West's influence? How are Chinese from all strata finding meaning after two decades of the relentless pursuit of wealth?Writing with great narrative verve and a keen sense of irony, Osnos follows the moving stories of everyday people and reveals life in the new China to be a battleground between aspiration and authoritarianism, in which only one can prevail. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Evan Osnos, George Backman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018908/bk_adbl_018908_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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