20 Best Theory Books
Theory is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Theory audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 20 Theory audiobooks below.
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The New Human Rights Movement
- By: Peter Joseph
- Narrator: Peter Joseph
- Length: 13 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.36(470 ratings)
4.36(470 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDSociety is broken. We can design our way to a better one. In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization,Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.
In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization, biodiversity loss, and economic inequality, an impending future of ecological collapse and societal destabilization will make “personal success” virtually meaningless. Yet our broken social system incentivizes behavior that will only make our problems worse. If true human rights progress is to be achieved today, it is time we dig deeper–rethinking the very foundation of our social system.
In this engaging, important work, Peter Joseph, founder of the world’s largest grassroots social movement–the Zeitgeist Movement–draws from economics, history, philosophy, and modern public-health research to present a bold case for rethinking activism in the twenty-first century.
Arguing against the long-standing narrative of universal scarcity and other pervasive myths that defend the current state of affairs, The New Human Rights Movement illuminates the structural causes of poverty, social oppression, and the ongoing degradation of public health, and it ultimately presents the case for an updated economic approach. Joseph explores the potential of this grand shift and how we can design our way to a world where the human family has become truly sustainable.
The New Human Rights Movement reveals the critical importance of a unified activism working to overcome the inherent injustice of our system. This book warns against what is in store if we continue to ignore the flaws of our socioeconomic approach, while also revealing the bright and expansive future possible if we succeed.
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Economics in One Lesson
- By: Henry Hazlitt
- Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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4.17(15336 ratings)
4.17(15336 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDA million-copy seller, Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern “libertarian” economics of the type espoused by Ron Paul andA million-copy seller, Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern “libertarian” economics of the type espoused by Ron Paul and others. Called by H. L. Mencken “one of the few economists in history who could really write,” Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliant but concise work. In it, he explains basic truths about economics and the economic fallacies responsible for unemployment, inflation, high taxes, and recession, as well as illustrating the destructive effects of taxes, rent and price controls, inflation, trade restrictions, and minimum-wage laws.
Economics in One Lesson is deceptively prescient and far-reaching in its efforts to dissemble economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy. Many current economic commentators across the political spectrum have credited Hazlitt with foreseeing the collapse of the global economy, which occurred more than fifty years after the initial publication of this seminal work. Hazlitt’s focus on non-governmental solutions, strong–and strongly reasoned–antideficit position, and general emphasis on free markets, economic liberty of individuals, and the dangers of government intervention make Economics in One Lesson every bit as relevant and valuable today as it has been since publication.
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Applied Economics
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrator: Bill Wallace
- Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.17(1989 ratings)
4.17(1989 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.95 USDNewly revised and updated, this is the acclaimed companion volume to the hugely successful Basic Economics, by one of America’s most revered economists. Applied Economics is an accessible guide to how our economic decisions develop. ItNewly revised and updated, this is the acclaimed companion volume to the hugely successful Basic Economics, by one of America’s most revered economists.
Applied Economics is an accessible guide to how our economic decisions develop. It explains the application of economics to major world problems, including housing, medical care, discrimination, and the economic development of nations, illustrated with examples from around the world. This new, expanded edition has been updated to address economic questions that are particularly relevant to our times, with chapters on the economics of immigration, the economics of organ transplants, the “creative” financing of home buying that led to the mortgage crisis, and the political and economic incentives that lead to money earmarked for highways being diverted to mass transit and to a general neglect of infrastructure. The book retains its easy readability, even for people with no prior knowledge of economics.
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Head, Hand, Heart
- By: David Goodhart
- Narrator: David Goodhart
- Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.96(145 ratings)
3.96(145 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDA Financial Times best book of 2020, an “utterly compelling” (The Sunday Times, London) argument from leading political analyst David Goodhart about the severely imbalanced distribution of status and work in western societies.TheA Financial Times best book of 2020, an “utterly compelling” (The Sunday Times, London) argument from leading political analyst David Goodhart about the severely imbalanced distribution of status and work in western societies.
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The coronavirus pandemic revealed what we ought to have already known: that nurses, caregivers, supermarket workers, delivery drivers, cleaners, and so many others are essential. Until recently, this work was largely regarded as menial by the same society that now lauds them as heroes. How did we get here?
“With great clarity and unfailing sympathy for the human condition,” (Matthew Crawford, New York Times bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft) this follow-up to the bestselling The Road to Somewhere divides society into people who work with their Heads (cognitive work), with their Hands (manual work), or with their Hearts (caring work), and considers each group’s changing status and influence. Today the “best and the brightest” trump the “decent and hardworking.” Qualities like character, compassion, craft, and physical labor command far less respect in our workforce. This imbalance has led to the disaffection and alienation of millions of people.
David Goodhart reveals the untold history behind this disparity and outlines the challenges we face as a result. Cognitive ability has become the gold standard of human esteem, and those in the cognitive class now shape society largely in their own interest. To put it bluntly: smart people have become too powerful.
A healthy, democratic society respects and rewards a broad range of achievements, and provides meaning and value for people who cannot–or do not want to–achieve in the classroom and professional career market. We must shift our thinking to see all workers as essential, and not just during crises like the coronavirus pandemic. “Insightful and provocative,” (Michael Lind, author of The New Class War) this is a “deeply felt and persuasive call for rethinking the social order” (Publishers Weekly). -
Hayek
- By: Eamonn Butler
- Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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3.94(136 ratings)
3.94(136 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.95 USDNobel prize winner F. A. Hayek is one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, but up to now there has been no book for the non-specialist that describes his ideas and explains their significance. Eamonn Butler’s clear, systematic,Nobel prize winner F. A. Hayek is one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, but up to now there has been no book for the non-specialist that describes his ideas and explains their significance. Eamonn Butler’s clear, systematic, perceptive study fills this gap. Starting with a short survey of Hayek’s life, Dr. Butler goes on to analyze all the main elements in his thought under six basic headings: Understanding How Society Works; The Market Process; Hayek’s Critique of Socialism; Criticism of Social Justice; The Institutions of a Liberal Order; and The Constitution of a Liberal State.
Hayek’s influence in helping a generation to understand the nature of society and the errors of collectivism goes far beyond that of any other writer of his period. Having been decades ahead of his time when he began to write, Hayek is proving to be one of the most seminal thinkers of our age.
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The Making of Modern Economics
- By: Mark Skousen
- Narrator: John Lescault
- Length: 19 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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3.93(336 ratings)
3.93(336 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.95 USDThis bold history of economics tells the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer. Unlike other economics histories, Skousen’s book provides a running plot with a singular heroic figure,This bold history of economics tells the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer. Unlike other economics histories, Skousen’s book provides a running plot with a singular heroic figure, Adam Smith, at the center of the discipline. Skousen unites the great thinkers by ranking them for or against Adam Smith and his “system of natural liberty.” He shows how Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and even laissez-faire disciples Robert Malthus and David Ricardo detracted from Adam Smith’s classical model of democratic capitalism, while Alfred Marshall, Irving Fisher, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman, among others, remodeled and improved upon Smithian economics. Highlights include humorous anecdotes and exciting new revelations about the lives of the great economists.
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Capitalism and Freedom, Fortieth Anniversary Edition
- By: Milton Friedman
- Narrator: Michael Edwards
- Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.92(7 ratings)
3.92(7 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDHow can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy–one in whichHow can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy–one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on.
This updated edition includes a new preface by the author.
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- By: Thorstein Veblen
- Narrator: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.9(2643 ratings)
3.9(2643 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDIn this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwin’s theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed inIn this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwin’s theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed in society results from the tendency to believe that true accomplishment lies in arriving at a condition of ostentatious wealth and status. In developing his thesis, Veblen traces the origins and development of ownership and property, offering extraordinary insights into consumerism, the evolution of class structure, the rise of leisure time, and how modern societal goals are grounded in monetary aspirations and achievements.
With a cool gaze and devastating wit, Veblen examines the human cost paid when social institutions are founded on the consumption of unessential goods for the sake of personal profit. Fashion, beauty, sports, the home, the clergy, scholars–all are assessed for their true usefulness and found wanting. Indeed, Veblen’s critique covers all aspects of modern life from dress, class, industry, business, and home decoration to religion, scholarship, education, and the position of women, laying bare the hollowness of many cherished standards of taste and culture.
The targets of Veblen’s brilliant, scathing satire are as evident today as they were when this classic of economic and social theory was first published, and his book still has the power to shock and enlighten.
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Can American Capitalism Survive?
- By: Steven Pearlstein
- Narrator: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 25, 2018
- Language: English
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3.9(235 ratings)
3.9(235 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDPulitzer Prize-winning economic journalist Steven Pearlstein argues that our thirty year experiment in unfettered markets has undermined core values required to make capitalism and democracy work. Thirty years ago, “greed is good” andPulitzer Prize-winning economic journalist Steven Pearlstein argues that our thirty year experiment in unfettered markets has undermined core values required to make capitalism and democracy work.
Thirty years ago, “greed is good” and “maximizing shareholder value” became the new mantras woven into the fabric of our business culture, economy, and politics. Although, around the world, free market capitalism has lifted more than a billion people from poverty, in the United States most of the benefits of economic growth have been captured by the richest 10%, along with providing justification for squeezing workers, cheating customers, avoiding taxes, and leaving communities in the lurch. As a result, Americans are losing faith that a free market economy is the best system.
In Can American Capitalism Survive?, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steven Pearlstein chronicles our descent and challenges the theories being taught in business schools and exercised in boardrooms around the country. We’re missing a key tenet of Adam Smith’s wealth of nations: without trust and social capital, democratic capitalism cannot survive. Further, equality of incomes and opportunity need not come at the expense of economic growth.
Pearlstein lays out bold steps we can take as a country: a guaranteed minimum income paired with universal national service, tax incentives for companies to share profits with workers, ending class segregation in public education, and restoring competition to markets. He provides a path forward that will create the shared prosperity that will sustain capitalism over the long term.
Praise for Can American Capitalism Survive?:
“In the Venn diagram of ‘economics’ and ‘interesting,’ Steven Pearlstein occupies the (tiny) overlapping area in the middle.” — Malcolm Gladwell
“Americans have begun to lose faith in capitalism, and that has sapped our optimism and poisoned our politics. In this enlightening and important book, Steven Pearlstein explains how our economic system gradually has undermined our sense of community by glorifying greed rather than fairness.” — Walter Isaacson
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The Economists’ Diet
- By: Christopher Payne
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.89(186 ratings)
3.89(186 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDA bold and sensible new behavioral approach to dieting–driven by economic principles– that recommends micro-habits and meta-rules to help control impulses to overeat, approach food in a healthier way, and lose weight once and forA bold and sensible new behavioral approach to dieting–driven by economic principles– that recommends micro-habits and meta-rules to help control impulses to overeat, approach food in a healthier way, and lose weight once and for all.
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Christopher Payne and Rob Barnett are two formerly obese economists who met while working at Bloomberg. They faced the same problems that so many others face today: long hours, frequently eating out for lunch and dinner, and snacking out of boredom. When they finally lost weight by applying what they know best–economics–to their waistlines. By carefully considering economic theories, real-world data, and their own personal experiences, they developed behavioral best practices that helped them control their impulses to overeat and approach food in a healthier way.
Full of Barnett and Payne’s personal weight-loss stories, The Economists’ Diet is a practical guide that explains how to control those ever-present impulses to overeat and, in the process, lose weight and keep it off. It is “[a] uniquely themed and user-friendly guide” (Publisher’s Weekly), and “full of advice [that] makes a lot of sense and is habit-forming (Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit). -
The Wealth of Nations
- By: Adam Smith
- Narrator: Michael Edwards
- Length: 35 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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3.88(26213 ratings)
3.88(26213 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0039.95 USDFirst published in 1776, this work is the classic statement of economic liberalism or the policy of laissez-faire and is widely considered on of the hundred greatest books of all time. Several fundamental principles or “axioms” wereFirst published in 1776, this work is the classic statement of economic liberalism or the policy of laissez-faire and is widely considered on of the hundred greatest books of all time. Several fundamental principles or “axioms” were introduced in this work, including the division of labor, supply and demand, and free market capitalism as some of the most obvious. Smith’s political economy is primarily individualistic: self-interest is the incentive for economic action. However, he shows that universal pursuit of self-interest contributes to the public interest, a concept probably best encapsulated by John F. Kennedy when he remarked, “a rising tide raises all boats.”
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50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know
- By: Edmund Conway
- Narrator: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Mobius
- Publish date: November 05, 2013
- Language: English
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3.82(632 ratings)
3.82(632 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.0 USDWhat exactly is a credit crunch? Why do professional athletes earn so much more than the rest of us? Which country is likely to be the world’s leading economy in ten years’ time? Daily Telegraph economics editor Edmund Conway introduces... Read more
What exactly is a credit crunch? Why do professional athletes earn so much more than the rest of us? Which country is likely to be the world’s leading economy in ten years’ time?Daily Telegraph economics editor Edmund Conway introduces and explains the central ideas of economics in a series of 50 essays. Beginning with an exploration of the basic theories, such as Adam Smith’s “invisible hand,” and concluding with the latest research into the links between wealth and happiness, he sheds light on all the essential topics needed to understand booms and busts, bulls and bears, and the way the world really works.
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The Austrian Case for the Free Market Process
- By: William Peterson
- Narrator: Louis Rukeyser
- Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.79(91 ratings)
3.79(91 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.95 USDLudwig von Mises (1881-1973) and Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) were perhaps the foremost defenders of the free market and limited government during the mid-twentieth century ascendancy of Keynesian economics. Mises highlighted the problem of economicLudwig von Mises (1881-1973) and Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) were perhaps the foremost defenders of the free market and limited government during the mid-twentieth century ascendancy of Keynesian economics.
Mises highlighted the problem of economic calculation in non-market economics. He saw the price system as the basis of economic calculation and emphasized the importance of sound money for it to work properly. Mises created an all-encompassing theory of economics as a system of human action. Hayek emphasized the role of knowledge in economics, asserting that man “cannot acquire the full knowledge that would make mastery of events possible.” He insisted that capitalism has improved the living conditions of workers. Hayek received the Nobel Prize in 1974.
The Great Economic Thinkers series is a collection of presentations that explain, in understandable language, the major ideas of history’s most important economists. Special emphasis is placed on each thinker’s attitude toward capitalism, revealing their influence in today’s debate on economic progress and prosperity.
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Universal Man
- By: Richard Davenport-Hines
- Narrator: Richard Davenport-Hines
- Length: 13 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 19, 2015
- Language: English
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3.65(102 ratings)
3.65(102 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn Universal Man, noted biographer and historian Richard Davenport-Hines revives our understanding of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), the twentieth century’s most charismatic and revolutionary economist. Keynes helped FDR launch the New Deal,In Universal Man, noted biographer and historian Richard Davenport-Hines revives our understanding of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), the twentieth century’s most charismatic and revolutionary economist. Keynes helped FDR launch the New Deal, saved Britain from financial crisis twice over the course of two World Wars, and instructed Western nations on how to protect themselves from revolutionary unrest, economic instability, high unemployment, and social dissolution. Isaiah Berlin called Keynes “the cleverest man I ever knew”-both “superior and intellectually awe-inspiring.” Eric Hobsbawm, the twentieth century’s preeminent historian, considered him as influential as Lenin, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Gandhi, and Mao. Keynes was nothing less than the Adam Smith of his time: his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in 1936, became the most important economics book of the twentieth century, as important as Smith’s Wealth of Nations in inaugurating an economic era. Keynes’s brilliant ideas made possible 35 years of prosperity after the Second World War, the most sustained period of rapid expansion in history. And now, and in the wake of the 2008 global economic collapse, he is once again shaping our world. Every day, we are likely to hear about “Keynesian economics” or the “Keynesian Revolution,” terms that testify to his continuing influence on both economic theory and government policies. Indeed, with the thorough discrediting of his opponents-Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, and other supporters of the notion that capitalism is self-regulating, and needs no government intervention-nations across the world are turning to Keynes’s signature innovations: above all that governments must involve themselves in their economies to stave off financial collapse. Previous biographies have explored Keynes economic thought at great length and often in the jargon of the discipline. Universal Man is the first accessible biography of Keynes, and reveals Keynes as much more than an economist. Like many Englishmen of his class and era, Keynes compartmentalized his life. Accordingly, Davenport-Hines views Keynes through multiple windows, as a youthful prodigy, a powerful government official, an influential public man, a bisexual living in the shadow of Oscar Wilde’s persecution, a devotee of the arts, and an international statesman of great renown. Delving into Keynes’s experiences and thought, Davenport-Hines shows us a man who was equally at ease socialising with the Bloomsbury Group as he was persuading heads of state to adopt his policies. Exploring the desires and experiences that compelled Keynes to innovate, Davenport-Hines is the first to argue that Keynesian economics has an aesthetic basis. In this book we come to understand not just the most enduringly influential economist of the modern era, but one of the most gifted and vital men of our times: a disciplined logician with a capacity for glee who persuaded people, seduced them, subverted old ideas, and installed new ones; a man whose high brilliance did not give people vertigo, but clarified and lengthened their perspectives. Engaging, learned, and sparkling with wit and insight, Universal Man is the perfect match for its subject.
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Spite
- By: Simon McCarthy-Jones
- Narrator: Chris Clarkson
- Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 13, 2021
- Language: English
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3.6(77 ratings)
3.6(77 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDSpite angers and enrages us, but it also keeps us honest. In this provocative account, a psychologist examines how petty vengeance explains human thriving.Spite seems utterly useless. You don’t gain anything by hurting yourself just so you canSpite angers and enrages us, but it also keeps us honest. In this provocative account, a psychologist examines how petty vengeance explains human thriving.... Read more
Spite seems utterly useless. You don’t gain anything by hurting yourself just so you can hurt someone else. So why hasn’t evolution weeded out all the spiteful people?
As psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones argues, spite seems pointless because we’re looking at it wrong. Spite isn’t just what we feel when a car cuts us off or when a partner cheats. It’s what we feel when we want to punish a bad act simply because it was bad. Spite is our fairness instinct, an innate resistance to exploitation, and it is one of the building blocks of human civilization. As McCarthy-Jones explains, some of history’s most important developments–the rise of religions, governments, and even moral codes–were actually redirections of spiteful impulses.
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Freedomnomics
- By: John R. Lott
- Narrator: Brian Emerson
- Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.56(556 ratings)
3.56(556 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDFreedomnomics is everything you wanted to know about the world but didn’t know economics could tell you. As the blockbuster bestseller Freakonomics demonstrated, economics can explain everything, from why people behave the way they do to howFreedomnomics is everything you wanted to know about the world but didn’t know economics could tell you.
As the blockbuster bestseller Freakonomics demonstrated, economics can explain everything, from why people behave the way they do to how governments and businesses organize themselves. But are the basic assumptions and conclusions in Freakonomics true? Does the free market usually lead to unintended and negative consequences? Quite the opposite, says John Lott, who holds a PhD in economics.
In fact, says Lott, a wide range of fascinating and peculiar case studies prove the simple adage that if something is more costly, people will do less of it. And, in a refutation of Freakonomics’ most controversial idea, Lott shows why legalized abortion leads to family breakdown, which leads to more crime.
Extending its rigorous economic analysis even further to our political and criminal justice systems, Freedomnomics reveals:
-How the free market creates incentives for people to behave honestly
-How political campaign restrictions keep incumbents in power
-Why affirmative action in police departments leads to higher crime rates
-How women’s suffrage led to a massive increase in the size of government
-Why women become more conservative when they get married and more liberal when they get divorced
-How secret ballots reduce voter participation
-Why state-owned companies and government agencies are much more likely to engage in unfair predation than are private firms
Entertaining, persuasive, and based on dozens of economic studies spanning decades, Freedomnomics not only shows how free markets really work but proves that, when it comes to promoting prosperity and economic justice, nothing works better.
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Outrageous Fortunes
- By: Daniel Altman
- Narrator: William Hughes
- Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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3.38(84 ratings)
3.38(84 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDAs individuals, companies, and countries struggle to recover from the economic crisis, many are narrowly focused on forecasts for the next week, month, or quarter. Yet they should be asking what the global economy will look like in the years toAs individuals, companies, and countries struggle to recover from the economic crisis, many are narrowly focused on forecasts for the next week, month, or quarter. Yet they should be asking what the global economy will look like in the years to come—where will the long-term risks and opportunities arise? These are the questions that Daniel Altman confronts in his provocative and indispensable book. The fate of the global economy, Altman argues, will be determined by deeper factors than those that move markets from moment to moment. His incisive analysis brings together hidden trends, societal pressures, and policy endgames to make twelve surprising but logical predictions about the years ahead. And his forecasts for the future raise a pressing question for today: with so many challenges awaiting us, are our political and economic institutions up to the task? Outrageous Fortunes shows which industries will grow, which economies will crumble, which investments will pay off, and where the next big crisis may occur. Altman’s carefully reasoned text is an essential guide for the road ahead.
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Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
- By: Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
- Narrator: John Chancer
- Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 27, 2018
- Language: English
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3.36(190 ratings)
3.36(190 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms andFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete
In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That’s all going to change thanks to the Big Data revolution. As Viktor Mayer-SchAPrger, bestselling author of Big Data, and Thomas Ramge, who writes for The Economist, show, data is replacing money as the driver of market behavior. Big finance and big companies will be replaced by small groups and individual actors who make markets instead of making things: think Uber instead of Ford, or Airbnb instead of Hyatt.
This is the dawn of the era of data capitalism. Will it be an age of prosperity or of calamity? This book provides the indispensable roadmap for securing a better future.
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Karl Marx: Das Kapital
- By: David Ramsay Steele
- Narrator: Louis Rukeyser
- Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.22(130 ratings)
3.22(130 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.95 USDKarl Marx wrote Das Kapital during the late industrial revolution, as Europe underwent a wrenching transformation from an agricultural to an industrial economy. In this monumental work, Marx argued that capitalism is both inefficient and immoral,Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital during the late industrial revolution, as Europe underwent a wrenching transformation from an agricultural to an industrial economy. In this monumental work, Marx argued that capitalism is both inefficient and immoral, relying upon the exploitation of workers by owners of capital. Many modern ideas about profits, interest, monopoly, and the wastefulness of the business cycle find their roots in the Marxian view of economics.
The Great Economic Thinkers Series is a collection of presentations that explain in understandable language the major ideas of history’s most important economists. Special emphasis is placed on each thinker’s attitude toward capitalism, revealing their influence in today’s debate on economic progress and prosperity.
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The Making of Modern Economics, Second Edition
- By: Mark Skousen
- Narrator: William Hughes
- Length: 20 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.95 USDHere is a bold, updated history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today’s rigorous social science. Noted financial writer and economist Mark Skousen has revised this popular work to provide more on AdamHere is a bold, updated history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today’s rigorous social science. Noted financial writer and economist Mark Skousen has revised this popular work to provide more on Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Joseph Stiglitz and on “imperfect” markets and behavioral economics.
This comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to the major economic philosophers of the past 225 years begins with Adam Smith and continues to the present day, examining the contributions made by each individual to our understanding of the role of the economist, the science of economics, and economic theory. Included are highlights of little known facts about the economists’ personal lives that affected their work.
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Cliff Weitzman
Cliff Weitzman is a dyslexia advocate and the CEO and founder of Speechify, the #1 text-to-speech app in the world, totaling over 100,000 5-star reviews and ranking first place in the App Store for the News & Magazines category. In 2017, Weitzman was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Cliff Weitzman has been featured in EdSurge, Inc., PC Mag, Entrepreneur, Mashable, among other leading outlets.
Recent Blogs
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July 06, 2023
Which books are available on Spotify?
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July 06, 2023
Are audiobooks free on Spotify with membership?
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June 25, 2023
Top Destinations for Free eBooks and Audiobooks Online
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June 25, 2023
Best Alternative to Barnes & Noble Online
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June 25, 2023
The Best Places to Buy eBooks: Beyond the Kindle Ecosystem
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June 25, 2023
What are the best places to find free ebooks?
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June 25, 2023
Best Independent Companies to Buy eBooks from
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April 19, 2023
How many Game of Thrones books are there?
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April 19, 2023
Where to buy cheap books: A comprehensive guide
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April 19, 2023
How many Jack Reacher books are there?
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April 19, 2023
How many FNAF books are there?
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April 19, 2023
How many Warrior Cats books are there?
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April 19, 2023
How many Wheel of Time books are there?
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April 19, 2023
The best Vampire Survivors powerups in order
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April 19, 2023
How to read the Robert Galbraith books in order
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April 19, 2023
How to read the Artemis Fowl books in order
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April 19, 2023
How to read Craig Johnson’s books in order
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April 19, 2023
How to read Cassandra Clare’s books in order
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April 19, 2023
How to read Lee Child’s books in order
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April 18, 2023
How to read the In Death book series in order
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April 18, 2023
Best book quotes
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April 18, 2023
A tale of two cities reviewed
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April 18, 2023
All the President’s Men reviewed
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April 18, 2023
Tintin reviewed
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April 18, 2023
What are adult coloring books?
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April 18, 2023
How to read the Percy Jackson books in order
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April 11, 2023
How to find charities for the blind
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April 11, 2023
What is the best Bible app
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April 11, 2023
Where to find free audio Bible downloads
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April 11, 2023
What is the best free Bible app
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