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The Finance Curse

How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer

de Nicholas Shaxson ...

An "artfully presented [and] engaging" look at the insidious effects of financialization on our lives and politics by the author of Treasure Islands ( The Boston Globe).How did the banking sector grow from a supporter of business to the biggest business in the world? Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson takes us on a terrifying journey through the world economy, exposing tax havens, monopolists, ... Leer más

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An "artfully presented [and] engaging" look at the insidious effects of financialization on our lives and politics by the author of Treasure Islands ( The Boston Globe).How did the banking sector grow from a supporter of business to the biggest business in the world? Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson takes us on a terrifying journey through the world economy, exposing tax havens, monopolists,
... Leer más

Disponible también en: Audiolibro
Poisoned Wells

The Dirty Politics of African Oil

de Nicholas Shaxson ...

Each week the oil and gas fields of sub-Saharan Africa produce well over a billion dollars' worth of oil, an amount that far exceeds development aid to the entire African continent. Yet the rising tide of oil money is not promoting stability and development, but is instead causing violence, poverty, and stagnation. It is also generating vast corruption that reaches deep into American and European ... Leer más

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Each week the oil and gas fields of sub-Saharan Africa produce well over a billion dollars' worth of oil, an amount that far exceeds development aid to the entire African continent. Yet the rising tide of oil money is not promoting stability and development, but is instead causing violence, poverty, and stagnation. It is also generating vast corruption that reaches deep into American and European
... Leer más
La fuite des capitaux d'Afrique

les pilleurs et les facilitateurs

de Léonce Ndikumana, James K. Boyce, Adam Aboobaker, Melvin Ayogu, Jean Merckaert, Karmen Naidoo, Nicholas Shaxson ...

La fuite des capitaux d ' Afrique étudie la dynamique de fuite des capitaux d'Afrique du Sud, d'Angola, et de Côte d'Ivoire, pays qui ont, ces dernières décennies, enregistré des sorties illicites de capitaux à grande échelle. Pour chacun de ces pays, l'analyse quantitative, qualitative et institutionnelle est utilisée pour examiner le modus operandi de la fuite des capitaux. C'est-à-dire, qui ... Leer más

$29.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

La fuite des capitaux d ' Afrique étudie la dynamique de fuite des capitaux d'Afrique du Sud, d'Angola, et de Côte d'Ivoire, pays qui ont, ces dernières décennies, enregistré des sorties illicites de capitaux à grande échelle. Pour chacun de ces pays, l'analyse quantitative, qualitative et institutionnelle est utilisée pour examiner le modus operandi de la fuite des capitaux. C'est-à-dire, qui
... Leer más
Treasure Islands

The Secret World and Damaging Effects of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens

de Nicholas Shaxson ...

A thrilling ride inside the world of tax havens and corporate mastermindsWhile the United States experiences recession and economic stagnation and European countries face bankruptcy, experts struggle to make sense of the crisis. Nicholas Shaxson, a former correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist, argues that tax havens are a central cause of all these disasters.In this hard hitting ... Leer más

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A thrilling ride inside the world of tax havens and corporate mastermindsWhile the United States experiences recession and economic stagnation and European countries face bankruptcy, experts struggle to make sense of the crisis. Nicholas Shaxson, a former correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist, argues that tax havens are a central cause of all these disasters.In this hard hitting
... Leer más
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Finance Curse, The

How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer

de Nicholas Shaxson ...

Narrado por Simon Mattacks ...

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12 hora 2 minutos

Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the “resource curse,” seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and societal effects of the discovery of oil in Angola. He then gained prominence as an expert on tax havens, revealing the dark corners of that world long before the scandals of the Panama and Paradise Papers. Now, in The Finance Curse, he brings his knowledge ... Leer más

$42.99 USD

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Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the “resource curse,” seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and societal effects of the discovery of oil in Angola. He then gained prominence as an expert on tax havens, revealing the dark corners of that world long before the scandals of the Panama and Paradise Papers. Now, in The Finance Curse, he brings his knowledge
... Leer más

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What the U.S. Can Learn from China

An Open-Minded Guide to Treating Our Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher

de Ann Lee ...

Narrado por Denise Washington Blomberg ...

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8 hora 7 minutos

DEMOS Senior Fellow and self proclaimed "Tiger Mother of the U.S. economy" Ann Lee has a message for her fellow Americans: stop whining about China and start learning from them instead. She focuses on what Chinese success can teach us in several broad areas: education policy, economic policy and financial markets, foreign policy, strategic planning, and the benefits of a meritocratic political ... Leer más

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DEMOS Senior Fellow and self proclaimed "Tiger Mother of the U.S. economy" Ann Lee has a message for her fellow Americans: stop whining about China and start learning from them instead. She focuses on what Chinese success can teach us in several broad areas: education policy, economic policy and financial markets, foreign policy, strategic planning, and the benefits of a meritocratic political
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
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A Piece of the Sun

The Quest for Fusion Energy

de Daniel Clery ...

Narrado por Don Hagen ...

Completo

10 hora 11 minutos

Our rapidly industrializing world has an insatiable hunger for energy and conventional sources are struggling to meet demand. Oil is running out, coal is damaging our climate, many nations are abandoning nuclear, yet solar, wind, and water will never be a complete replacement. The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply researched and revelatory audiobook, is to be found in the original energy ... Leer más

$34.99 USD

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Our rapidly industrializing world has an insatiable hunger for energy and conventional sources are struggling to meet demand. Oil is running out, coal is damaging our climate, many nations are abandoning nuclear, yet solar, wind, and water will never be a complete replacement. The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply researched and revelatory audiobook, is to be found in the original energy
... Leer más

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A Blueprint for War

FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America

de Susan Dunn ...

Narrado por Suzanne Toren ...

Completo

8 hora 17 minutos

In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the ruthless onslaught of the Nazi army and air force. Great Britain stood alone, a fragile bastion between Germany and American immersion in war. In ... Leer más

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In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the ruthless onslaught of the Nazi army and air force. Great Britain stood alone, a fragile bastion between Germany and American immersion in war. In
... Leer más

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North Pole, South Pole

The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism

de Gillian Turner ...

Narrado por Cat Gould ...

Completo

8 hora 8 minutos

This "fantastic story" of one of physics' great riddles takes us through centuries of scientific history (Simon Lamb, author of Devil in the Mountain).Why do compass needles point north—but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world's oceans? How is Earth able to sustain life under an onslaught of solar wind and cosmic radiation? For centuries, the world ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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This "fantastic story" of one of physics' great riddles takes us through centuries of scientific history (Simon Lamb, author of Devil in the Mountain).Why do compass needles point north—but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world's oceans? How is Earth able to sustain life under an onslaught of solar wind and cosmic radiation? For centuries, the world
... Leer más

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Audiolibro

Catching Hell

The Insider Story of Seafood from Ocean to Plate

de Allen Ricca, Joe Muto ...

Narrado por Mike DelGaudio ...

Completo

5 hora 56 minutos

In Catching Hell, longtime seafood mogul Allen Ricca and author Joe Muto take readers behind the scenes of the high-end restaurant world and the international market for seafood, and how that industry has been impacted perhaps like no other due to the COVID-19 pandemic.This book exposes the fact that the American diner is being lied to on a regular basis. The culprit varies – sometimes it’s a chef ... Leer más

$22.99 USD

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In Catching Hell, longtime seafood mogul Allen Ricca and author Joe Muto take readers behind the scenes of the high-end restaurant world and the international market for seafood, and how that industry has been impacted perhaps like no other due to the COVID-19 pandemic.This book exposes the fact that the American diner is being lied to on a regular basis. The culprit varies – sometimes it’s a chef
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
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Cosmosapiens

Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe

de John Hands ...

Narrado por Gildart Jackson ...

Completo

31 hora 11 minutos

The book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from.Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?John Hands’ extraordinarily ambitious quest is to bring together this scientific knowledge and evaluate without bias or ... Leer más

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The book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from.Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?John Hands’ extraordinarily ambitious quest is to bring together this scientific knowledge and evaluate without bias or
... Leer más

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Audiolibro

The Ten Year War

Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

de Jonathan Cohn ...

Narrado por Jonathan Cohn, Andrew Colford ...

Completo

15 hora 14 minutos

**This program includes an introduction read by the author.Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.**The Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare,” was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half ... Leer más

$32.99 USD

Disponible también en: eBook

**This program includes an introduction read by the author.Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.**The Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare,” was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half
... Leer más

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