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    Fresh Air, P.W. Singer and John Murray, Hörbuch, Digital, 50min
    P.W. (Peter) Singer, security analyst at The Brookings Institution and writer and physician John Murray on this edition of Fresh Air. P.W. Singer is an Olin Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and Coordinator of the Brookings Project on U.S. Policy towards the Islamic World. He is also the author of the new book, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry. Over the last decade, private companies have provided tactical support, advice, training, security and even intelligence to the military. In the recent war against Iraq, private military employees handled everything from feeding and housing U.S. troops to maintaining sophisticated weapons like the B-2 stealth bomber. The practice raises troubling ethical questions. John Murray has written a new collection of short stories, A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies. Many of his stories are informed by his experiences as a doctor with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service when he traveled to developing countries like Burundi, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Murray is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. (Broadcast Date: July 9, 2003) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/030709/rt_whyy_030709_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In Defense of Public Lands: The Case Against Privatization and Transfer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 503min
    Debates continue to rage over the merits or flaws of public land and whether or not it should be privatized - or at least radically reconfigured in some way. In Defense of Public Lands offers a comprehensive refutation of the market-oriented arguments. Steven Davis passionately advocates that public land ought to remain firmly in the public’s hands. He reviews empirical data and theoretical arguments from biological, economic, and political perspectives in order to build a case for why our public lands are an invaluable and irreplaceable asset for the American people. In Defense of Public Lands briefly lays out the history and characteristics of public lands at the local, state, and federal levels while examining the numerous policy prescriptions for their privatization or, in the case of federal lands, transfer. He considers the dimensions of environmental health, markets, and valuation of public land, the tensions between collective values and individual preferences, the nature and performance of bureaucratic management, and the legitimacy of interest groups and community decision-making. Offering a fair, good faith overview of the privatizers' best arguments before refuting them, this timely book contemplates both the immediate and long-term future of our public lands. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marlin May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151456/bk_acx0_151456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1140min
    Exploding the myths about moneyOur money system is not what we have been led to believe. The creation of money has been "privatized", or taken over by a private money cartel. Except for coins, all of our money is now created as loans advanced by private banking institutions - including the private Federal Reserve. Banks create the principal but not the interest to service their loans. To find the interest, new loans must continually be taken out, expanding the money supply, inflating prices, and robbing you of the value of your money.Web of Debt unravels the deception and presents a crystal clear picture of the financial abyss toward which we are heading. Then, it explores a workable alternative, one that was tested in Colonial America and is grounded in the best of American economic thought, including the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.If you care about financial security, your own or the nation's, you should listen to this audiobook.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justin M. Grant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116416/bk_acx0_116416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    PrivatizationProfitability and operating efficiency
    PrivatizationProfitability and operating efficiency ab 48.99 € als Taschenbuch: Evaluation of financial and operating performance of privatized firms in ethiopia. a case study of tikur abay shoe sh. co.. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Ratgeber, Recht,
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    Short Story Press Presents Fix, Reset, and Reload , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 48min
    Short Story Press presents "Fix, Reset, and Reload", by Blaise Marcoux.Crusher Bruskiewicz doesn't believe he can be stopped. The 15-year old takes every challenge thrown his way, bolstering his fearsome reputation and encouraging his bullying ways. Some of his adventures are hazy in his mind, though, and hard to remember specifically.What the teenager doesn't know is that he keeps dying from his misadventures, only to be teleported into the future and repaired before being sent back to his own time.Who is Crusher's real father, and how does that play into why the boy keeps being patched up by medics from a completely different century?What strange future keeps its watchful eye on a young hooligan as he risks life and limb far in the past?What plans are being made concerning Crusher's fate by his father? How could it spell a very bleak destiny indeed for the misbehaving kid?Welcome to a future where corporations own people completely and time travel is a study option at the university. A time full of hover cars and holograms, space aliens, and a totally privatized military industrial complex.  Crusher had better prepare himself for another fix, reset, and reload, because next time, he could very well meet his doom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Fell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123183/bk_acx0_123183_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Inside Information, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, Shane Harris is the author of The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State and is the intelligence and homeland security correspondent for the National Journal. He tells Steve Paulson that our government is collecting masses of data on ordinary people in its efforts to catch terrorists. Next, Cory Doctorow is a writer and digital activist who works to defend electronic freedom. His new book for adults is Makers, but he talks to Anne Strainchamps about his recent hit for young adults, Little Brother. It's a tale of techno-geek rebellion and Doctorow tells Anne why kids should know how to take their hardware apart to re-purpose it. Then, Marilyn Johnson is the author of This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. She talks with Jim Fleming about how librarians are emerging as heroes of the digital age because of their love for the written word, free speech and open access.And finally, Robert Laughlin is a Nobel Prize winning physicist and the author of The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind. Laughlin tells Steve Paulson that the internet is full of information, but it may not be anything you want. Increasingly, the really useful stuff is classified or privatized. [Broadcast Date: March 18, 2011] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/110318/rt_tbon_110318_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Inside Information, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, Shane Harris is the author of The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State and is the intelligence and homeland security correspondent for the National Journal. He tells Steve Paulson that our government is collecting masses of data on ordinary people in its efforts to catch terrorists. Next, Cory Doctorow is a writer and digital activist who works to defend electronic freedom. His new book for adults is Makers, but he talks to Anne Strainchamps about his recent hit for young adults, Little Brother. It's a tale of techno-geek rebellion and Doctorow tells Anne why kids should know how to take their hardware apart to re-purpose it. Then, Marilyn Johnson is the author of This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. She talks with Jim Fleming about how librarians are emerging as heroes of the digital age because of their love for the written word, free speech and open access.And finally, Robert Laughlin is a Nobel Prize winning physicist and the author of The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind. Laughlin tells Steve Paulson that the internet is full of information, but it may not be anything you want. Increasingly, the really useful stuff is classified or privatized. [Broadcast Date: February 19, 2010] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/100219/rt_tbon_100219_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Transnational Business (eBook, PDF)
    First Published in 1999. Small Businesses Trickling Up in Central and Eastern Europe argues that micro-, small, and medium-sized enterprises in selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been the key to economic growth rather than privatized large-scale enterprises. Small businesses have come to constitute the most dynamic element of growth in the emerging markets of the CEE region in the last decade. In 1989, most of the countries of the region were still under the political and economic domination of the Soviet Union. Since then a process of liberalization has been unleashed in the region to dismantle statist economic policies and replace them with free market policies. This has involved programs of privatization and restructuring of state-owned enterprises, as well as the promotion of policies to enable a private sector to develop. Small businesses are creating thousands of new jobs while large companies are retrenching and downsizing their workforce. In some countries of the region this process is much further along than in others. In each country, however, the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector has developed at a more rapid pace than has the privatization of the large public companies. The privatization of small and medium-sized state-owned enterprises has been rather more successful. With the economic transition there has been a flurry of new enterprises springing up throughout the region, some registered as legal entities but many micro-enterprises often remaining unregistered in the informal sector. Micro-enterprises are increasingly seen as an important element of this SME sector, although they were traditionally treated separately as belonging to the informal sector and a detriment to economic growth.
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    Transnational Business (eBook, ePUB)
    First Published in 1999. Small Businesses Trickling Up in Central and Eastern Europe argues that micro-, small, and medium-sized enterprises in selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been the key to economic growth rather than privatized large-scale enterprises. Small businesses have come to constitute the most dynamic element of growth in the emerging markets of the CEE region in the last decade. In 1989, most of the countries of the region were still under the political and economic domination of the Soviet Union. Since then a process of liberalization has been unleashed in the region to dismantle statist economic policies and replace them with free market policies. This has involved programs of privatization and restructuring of state-owned enterprises, as well as the promotion of policies to enable a private sector to develop. Small businesses are creating thousands of new jobs while large companies are retrenching and downsizing their workforce. In some countries of the region this process is much further along than in others. In each country, however, the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector has developed at a more rapid pace than has the privatization of the large public companies. The privatization of small and medium-sized state-owned enterprises has been rather more successful. With the economic transition there has been a flurry of new enterprises springing up throughout the region, some registered as legal entities but many micro-enterprises often remaining unregistered in the informal sector. Micro-enterprises are increasingly seen as an important element of this SME sector, although they were traditionally treated separately as belonging to the informal sector and a detriment to economic growth.
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    Why Bernie Sanders Matters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 352min
    Missionary. Radical. Hippy. Revolutionary. Red Mayor. Pragmatist. Socialist. Hot from the campaign trail, a vivid new biography that goes inside Bernie Sanders's contradictions, his unusual life, and his electrifying quest to make the American dream a reality for all. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders may be the least political person in politics - a brusque, unpolished, Jewish Socialist from Brooklyn with deep-seated convictions and distaste for small talk. He is also, at 74, the rising star of the Democratic party, whose underdog bid for the presidential nomination has hit the marks of a serious contender: He's competitive with, and in some cases leading, Hillary Clinton in early state polls. He's closed the fundraising gap, and is drawing crowds of thousands to campaign rallies. Why? Because where most candidates are calculating and rehearsed, Sanders is frank, authentic, and impassioned. For 30 years, he has spoken out against income inequality, environmental injustice, and privatized healthcare. Now - amid an ever-widening chasm between the rich and the rest, and growing voter disenchantment - the country is listening. With reporting from inside the campaign, personal relationships with Sanders' friends and colleagues, and meticulous research, noted reporter Harry Jaffe offers an engaging, insightful portrait of the ultimate outsider candidate, charting Sanders' course from Brooklyn to Burlington, and now to Des Moines and beyond. Within the untold narrative of Sanders' origins and political development, he also examines the growth of the progressive movement, and the recent developments - including the Occupy movement, the Great Recession, and the rise of the millennial generation - that have shifted Sanders' views from fringe to focal point. At once a captivating biography, and a thought-provoking window into the contemporary political landscape, this will become the defining account of a pivotal moment in American history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Triandiflou. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026798/bk_adbl_026798_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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