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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman
Jul 2, 201323:01:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180108to 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.
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The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
Jun 13, 201304:19:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177880to 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.
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Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World by George Gilder
Jun 10, 201310:09:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177846to 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.
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Comeback: America's New Economic Boom by Charles Morris
May 28, 201304:47:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180092to 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.
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The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills by Sanjay Basu, David Stuckler
May 7, 201306:43:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177201to 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.
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End of The Good Life: How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation--and What We Can Do About It by Riva Froymovich
Apr 23, 201307:01:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173833to listen full audiobooks. Title: End of The Good Life: How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation--and What We Can Do About It Author: Riva Froymovich Narrator: Simone Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: April 23, 2013 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Financial journalist Riva Froymovich has good reason to be anxious about the financial turmoil facing Generation Y. This is her generation. Indeed, Generation Y has suffered the brunt of the financial crisis and great recession. For those in the U.S. born after 1976, the American dream is a is becoming a nightmare. Swamped in student loan debt they’re postponing marriage and buying homes, unable to save money, and delaying having children. The End of the Good Life: How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation--and What We Can Do About It examines short-sighted government policies and initiatives that will wreak havoc on our youth. In addition to offering concrete policy suggestions, this book is driven by the touching personal stories of Americans and other young people around the globe affected by the financial crisis.
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Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift by Ram Charan
Feb 26, 201307:12:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/164196to listen full audiobooks. Title: Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift Author: Ram Charan Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Ram Charan gives business leaders the guidance they need to succeed in a world in which economic power has shifted. The global tilt is nothing less than an irreversible shift of economic power—jobs, wealth, and market opportunities—from a small part of the world to its entirety. It is improving the lives of millions of people around the world, and while it is creating immense opportunities, it is disrupting the world as you know it with dizzying speed. If you’re an American or European, any assumptions you may have about national and managerial superiority are obsolete. Businesses in China, Singapore, India, Brazil, Malaysia, and other countries on the move have ready access to the capital and expertise they need to grow. Their leaders have just as much knowledge, talent, and drive as you do. And they are unleashing their entrepreneurial verve to scale up fast and grab once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. These businesses will soon be competing with yours, even if you’re not aware of them yet. Finding opportunities of your own requires you to consider vastly different perspectives and to see the new global landscape in its entirety and then change the content of your work to pursue them. In Global Tilt, Ram Charan will show you how to: - Gain an edge by cutting through the complexity of demographics, different forms of government, and even the global financial system, to identify “unstoppable trends” better and sooner than others - Challenge your reliance on core competence and the incremental improvement that results. Instead, look “outside-in” and “future-back,” determine the capabilities you need to build, and muster the psychological fortitude to make occasional strategic bets that can potentially alter the competitive landscape - Develop the soft skills crucial to leading a global organization, including mastering local contexts - Equip the organization to win by facing up to painful but necessary shifts in people assignments, decision-making authority, and resource allocation—even before making structural changes Those who can pursue the opportunities in a tilted world have a remarkably bright future. Ram Charan’s unparalleled experience with global leaders and companies and the unique and powerful insights he brings to this book will light the way for you and your exciting journey.
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The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression by Angus Burgin
Feb 19, 201310:17:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167653to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression Author: Angus Burgin Narrator: Derek Shetterly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Just as today’s observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider many of the most basic assumptions of our market-centered world. Conservatives often point to Friedrich Hayek as the most influential defender of the free market. By examining the work of such organizations as the Mont Pèlerin Society, an international association founded by Hayek in 1947 and later led by Milton Friedman, Burgin reveals that Hayek and his colleagues were deeply conflicted about many of the enduring problems of capitalism. Far from adopting an uncompromising stance against the interventionist state, they developed a social philosophy that admitted significant constraints on the market. Postwar conservative thought was more dynamic and cosmopolitan than has previously been understood. It was only in the 1960s and ’70s that Friedman and his contemporaries developed a more strident defense of the unfettered market. Their arguments provided a rhetorical foundation for the resurgent conservatism of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan and inspired much of the political and economic agenda of the United States in the ensuing decades. Burgin’s brilliant inquiry uncovers both the origins of the contemporary enthusiasm for the free market and the moral quandaries it has left behind.
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Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets by Jim Rogers
Feb 5, 201307:21:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/164482to listen full audiobooks. Title: Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets Author: Jim Rogers Narrator: Michael Bybee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets. Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world--studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up--has enthralled readers, investors and Wall Street aficionados for decades. In his engaging memoir Street Smarts, Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure, from his early years growing up a naïve kid in Demopolis, Alabama, to his fledgling career on Wall Street, to his cofounding of the wildly successful Quantum Fund. In Street Smarts, Rogers takes us through the highlights of his life in the financial markets, from his school days at Yale and Oxford--where despite the fact that he didn’t have enough money to afford the appropriate pair of shoes, he coxed the crew and helped to win the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race as well as the Thames Cup, the first of his three Guiness World Records--to his first heady taste of Wall Street in the mid-1960s, and his years helping to run the most successful hedge fund on Wall Street. In the course of his new book, Rogers offers often surprising observations on how the world works–-and what trends he sees in the future. The age of Wall Street, Rogers claims, when the finance industry drove 25% of America’s growth, is over. Tomorrow’s economy will be driven by those who make things--food, energy, goods and consumables. He explains why Asia will be the dominant economic force in the twenty-first century, and discusses why America and the European Union are in decline, and what we need to do to right our economy and society.
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The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India by David Michael, Carol Liao, Abheek Singhi, Michael J. Silverstein
Jan 29, 201311:33:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/164509to listen full audiobooks. Title: The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India Author: David Michael, Carol Liao, Abheek Singhi, Michael J. Silverstein Narrator: Don Hagen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Meet your new global consumer You’ve heard of the burgeoning consumer markets in China and India that are driving the world economy. But do you know enough about these new consumers to convert them into customers? Do you know that: • There will be nearly one billion middle-class consumers in China and India within the next ten years? • More than 135 million Chinese and Indians will graduate from college in this timeframe, compared to just 30 million in the United States? • By 2020, 68 percent of Chinese households and 57 percent of Indian households will be in the middle and upper classes? • The number of billionaires in China has grown from 1 to 115 in the past decade alone? In The $10 Trillion Prize, bestselling author Michael J. Silverstein and his The Boston Consulting Group colleagues in China and India provide the first comprehensive profile of the emerging middle class, primed to transform the global marketplace. Already the world’s biggest buyers of cars, mobile phones, appliances, and more, these consumers are eager for more products and services. In fact, it’s estimated that by 2020, consumers in China and India will generate about $10 trillion of total annual revenue for companies selling to them. Only by fully comprehending the forces driving this new generation of consumers will your company be able to capitalize on the opportunities their buying power represents. Insightful and backed by rigorous research, this audiobook takes you inside the hearts and minds of today’s emerging Chinese and Indian consumers positioning your company to win as the next wave of global affluence reaches the marketplace.
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