Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/820860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spontaneous Order: How Norms, Institutions, and Innovations Emerge from the Bottom Up Author: H. Peyton Young Narrator: Kent Klineman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 17, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Spontaneous Order brings together Peyton Young's research on evolutionary game theory and its diverse applications across a wide range of academic disciplines, including economics, sociology, philosophy, biology, computer science, and engineering. Enhanced with an introductory essay and commentaries, the book pulls together the author's work thematically to provide a valuable resource for scholars of economic theory. Young argues that equilibrium behaviors often coalesce from the interactions and experiences of many dispersed individuals acting with fragmentary knowledge of the world, rather than (as is often assumed in economics) from the actions of fully rational agents with commonly held beliefs. The author presents a unified and rigorous account of how such 'bottom-up' evolutionary processes work, using recent advances in stochastic dynamical systems theory. This analytical framework illuminates how social norms and institutions evolve, how social and technical innovations spread in society, and how these processes depend on adaptive learning behavior by human subjects.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742966 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent Conditions Author: Devin Deciantis, Ivan Lansberg Narrator: Devin Deciantis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Family businesses thrive in some of the world's toughest environments, providing vital lessons for businesses everywhere.   The bulk of the world’s growth in population and economic activity in the foreseeable future will be generated in the developing world. This is precisely where enterprising families dominate, operating very differently than their peers in more stable and affluent nations. These businesses not only survive but actually thrive in turbulent times, enduring wars, lawlessness, market failures, environmental disasters, and more. The world’s most advanced economies will increasingly experience these types of structural shocks and chronic uncertainties in the years ahead. The question is, what can they do about it?   In The Enduring Enterprise, Devin DeCiantis and Ivan Lansberg bring readers into the lives of families operating in emerging and frontier economies who rely on a unique portfolio of stabilizing strategies to create islands of trust, resilience, and prosperity amidst persistent turmoil. Yet these tactics can also be deployed by any business coping with extended periods of volatility or building a more systematic approach to managing risk.   Drawing on real cases from around the world, and on their extensive research and consulting experience with family enterprises globally, The Enduring Enterprise will provide business leaders everywhere with new and useful adaptive strategies, proven to work in the toughest conditions, to help them face the world of greater uncertainty that lies ahead.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul Author: Auden Schendler Narrator: Michael Butler Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 25, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Something's gone badly awry with environmentalism. We faithfully separate our waste into different streams, but wonder whether it really makes a difference. Global companies announce their commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring oil conferences. American businesses, communities, and individuals assiduously measure their carbon footprints, then implement voluntary emissions-reduction programs, all while trumpeting their do-gooderism. The problem is, none of this—whether individual efforts or corporate sustainability tactics—will make a dent in solving the civilizational threat of climate change. We only pretend it will, at our peril. As Auden Schendler argues in this provocative, powerful book, we're living a big green lie. The hard truth is that much of the modern environmental road map could have been written by the fossil fuel industry specifically to avoid disrupting the status quo. But there is another truth: while ineffective or duplicitous environmentalism has become standard practice, we all have friends and family we love and care about, whose future depends on solving the problem of climate change. Conscience tells us we have an obligation to repair the world. How can our common dreams be so at odds with our daily practice? And how might we meld our spirit and our passion to create a better future?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future Author: Vince Beiser Narrator: Vince Beiser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and rising violence — and how we can do better. An Australian millionaire’s plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing AI to find metals in the Arctic. These people and millions more are part of the intensifying competition to find and extract the minerals essential for two crucial technologies: the internet and renewable energy. In Power Metal, Vince Beiser explores the Achilles’ heel of “green power” and digital technology – that manufacturing computers, cell phones, electric cars, and other technologies demand skyrocketing amounts of lithium, copper, cobalt, and other materials. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet. Beiser crisscrossed the world to talk to the people involved and report on the damage this race is inflicting, the ways it could get worse, and how we can minimize the damage. Power Metal is a compelling glimpse into this disturbing yet potentially promising new world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy Author: James Rickards Narrator: James Rickards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 14, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Financial expert, investment advisor and New York Times bestselling author James Rickards shows how generative AI is reshaping the world of finance, explaining what smart investors can do to protect their assets. AI-powered programmes like ChatGPT have become valuable tools in the financial market, and proven to be incredibly beneficial to investors looking to identify investment opportunities and risks that might be overlooked by humans. Yet there is a darker side to these products, which we are only just beginning to fully understand. In this book, Rickards shows how models like ChatGPT work, and how they can be leveraged to capitalize on markets and avoid losses by providing accurate, up-to-date financial insights. Rickards’ guide is essential reading for anyone looking to navigate this tumultuous new climate. James Rickards breaks down the best ways you can protect your wealth in the age of the shifting financial markets, busting the myths surrounding all the usual doomsday predictions around super intelligent AI. © James Rickards 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765302 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy Author: James Rickards Narrator: James Rickards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: “Essential reading” – Forbes From the New York Times bestselling author of The New Great Depression and Currency Wars, a telling prediction for how AI will endanger global economic markets and security In November 2022, OpenAI released GPT-4 in a chatbot form to the public. In just two months, it claimed 100 million users—the fastest app to ever reach this benchmark. Since then, AI has become an all-consuming topic, popping up on the news, in ads, on your messenger apps, and in conversations with friends and family. But as AI becomes ubiquitous and grows at an ever-increasing pace, what does it mean for the financial markets? In MoneyGPT, Wall Street veteran and former advisor to the Department of Defense James Rickards paints a comprehensive picture of the danger AI poses to the global financial order, and the insidious ways in which AI will threaten national security. Rickards shows how, while AI is touted to increase efficiency and lower costs, its global implementation in the financial world will actually cause chaos, as selling begets selling and bank runs happen at lightning speed. AI further benefits malicious actors, Rickards argues, because without human empathy or instinct to intervene, threats like total nuclear war that once felt extreme are now more likely. And throughout all this, we must remain vigilant on the question of whose values will be promoted in the age of AI. As Rickards predicts, these systems will fail when we rely on them the most. MoneyGPT shows that the danger is not that AI will malfunction, but that it will function exactly as intended. The peril is not in the algorithms, but in ourselves. And it’s up to us to intervene with old-fashioned human logic and common sense before it’s too late.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity Author: Rainer Zitelmann Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: During the twentieth century, Vietnam and Poland were both victims not only of devastating wars, but also of socialist planned economies that destroyed whatever war hadn’t already. In 1990, Vietnam was still one of the poorest countries in the world, while Poland was one of the poorest in Europe. But in the three decades since then, both countries have drastically improved their citizens’ standards of living and escaped the vicious cycle of national poverty. In this book, Rainer Zitelmann identifies the reasons behind the sensational growth of both nations' economies, drawing out the lessons that other countries can learn from these two success stories. To explain the source of their success, he returns to Adam Smith's 1776 treatise, The Wealth of Nations: the only way to overcome poverty is through economic growth, and economic freedom is the crucial prerequisite for such growth. Developments over the past 250 years have proved Smith right. Despite these strides, almost ten percent of the world's population still lives in extreme poverty. So, what measures actually help to alleviate poverty today? Through a wealth of data and stories from the everyday lives of Polish and Vietnamese people who experienced reforms, Zitelmann demonstrates the persistent relevance of Smith's ideas to economic flourishing in the twenty-first century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New Tao of Warren Buffett Author: Mary Buffett, David Clark Narrator: Megan Tusing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: A new collection of simple yet powerful words and wisdom from Warren Buffett about today’s economy and how investing has changed in the past two decades – from crypto to climate change – compiled and commented upon by bestselling authors Mary Buffett and David Clark. Warren Buffett’s investment achievements are unparalleled. He owes his success to hard work, integrity, and the most elusive commodity of all, common sense. In The New Tao of Warren Buffett, Mary Buffett – coauthor of the bestselling Buffettology series – joins David Clark to bring readers more of Warren Buffett’s smartest, funniest, and most memorable sayings that reveal the life philosophy and the investment strategies that have made Warren Buffett, and the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, so enormously wealthy. Collected from a variety of fresh sources, including personal conversations, corporate reports, profiles, and interviews, the new quotations here reflect Warren’s practical strategies and provide useful tips for every investor, large or small. Including short explanations for each quote and examples from Buffett’s own business transactions, these ruminations on everything from AI to inflation illustrate his words at work. Inspiring, thought-provoking, and invaluable, this irresistibly browsable book offers priceless investment savvy that anyone can take to the bank – and is destined to become a new classic.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/837326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Money Destroys Nations: How Hyperinflation Ruined Zimbabwe, How Ordinary People Survived, and Warnings for Nations that Print Money Author: Philip Haslam, Russell Lamberti Narrator: Andrew Schär Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 1, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: The collapse of the Zimbabwe dollar in 2009 after years of rampant money printing is an alarming example of what lies in store for countries that print money to pay national debts, bail out banks and enrich political elites. When Money Destroys Nations tells the gripping story of the disintegration of the once-thriving Zimbabwean economy and the inspiring and tragic accounts of how ordinary people survived in turbulent circumstances. Philip Haslam and Russell Lamberti give a straightforward and revealing account of the causes and consequences of Zimbabwe's hyperinflation and how they apply to you in our world today. Zimbabwe's economic collapse is not an isolated tragedy. It holds lessons for all countries and for all political leaders tempted to take shortcuts to prosperity. Zimbabwe's lessons must not be ignored. This is the story of When Money Destroys Nations.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/840390 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Insidious: The Rise of the Financial Matrix and the Fall of Economic Freedom Author: Orrin Woodward Narrator: Chris Brady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 31, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Money is the lifeblood of the global economy, directly affecting nearly every person, enterprise, and government on the planet. Controlling the supply of that money is a prize so alluring, so corrupting, that for centuries powerful entities have maneuvered, schemed, and fought viciously to obtain it. Eventually, Financial Power won this Money War and now reigns supreme. How this took place, and what it means for every individual living in our world today, is a story that begins in antiquity and ends with the struggle to make ends meet for billions of people. That ongoing encroachment on individual freedom, a sinister power-grab creeping silently into everyone’s wallet and purse, one that is largely out-of-sight, intentionally obscured, and buried today under academic blessing and media approval, is the story told in this audiobook. Crucially, however, there is a way out of the morass, a financial roadmap that restores liberty and justice for all. Bestselling author Orrin Woodward peels back the curtain on one of the biggest financial frauds hidden in plain sight. Woodward's incisive analysis not only exposes the deception but also provides an invaluable solution to a better path forward . 'Insidious' is a must for anyone seeking to take control of their financial destiny.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/837259 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secrets of the Federal Reserve Author: Eustace Mullins Narrator: John Riddle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 30, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: The Secrets of the Federal Reserve* by Eustace Mullins investigates the origins, structure, and influence of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, arguing that it was created not solely to stabilize the economy but to serve the interests of an elite banking group. Mullins traces the Reserve’s formation back to a secret meeting on Jekyll Island and explores how this institution has impacted U.S. and global economics. The book examines key figures, banks, and historical contexts behind the Reserve, presenting a controversial view that challenges mainstream narratives about its purpose and control. This work is often cited by those critical of centralized banking power and has sparked much debate in economic and historical circles.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Frugal Economy: A Guide To Building a Better World With Less Author: Navi Radjou Narrator: Kevin T. Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Humanity's pursuit of greatness meets the reality of finite resources In The Frugal Economy: A Guide to Building a Better World With Less, award-winning author Navi Radjou delivers an incisive and engrossing treatment of how human beings facing climate change can reconcile our built-in drive to 'do more' and 'be better' with our planet's finite resources. You'll discover how we can thrive within planetary boundaries while achieving sustainable growth for generations to come. In this groundbreaking book, enriched with over 100 inspiring examples, you'll learn how to create greater value with less and find: ● Practical strategies for doing more with less, benefiting both people and the planet ● Success stories of businesses fueling transformative megatrends like B2B sharing, distributed manufacturing, and triple regeneration ● Insights into reshaping economic systems to promote social and ecological harmony Whether you're a businessperson, professional, student, academic, policymaker, regulator, or entrepreneur, you can join the movement towards a sustainable future. Listen to The Frugal Economy today and become a catalyst for positive change!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/793497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform Author: Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian Narrator: Feodor Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: THE FIRST THOROUGH ACCOUNT OF A FORMATIVE AND LITTLE UNDERSTOOD CHAPTER IN CHINESE HISTORYOdd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world.In this rigorous account, Westad and Chen construct a panorama of catastrophe and progress in China. They chronicle China’s gradual opening to the world—the interplay of power in an era of aged and ailing leadership, the people’s rebellion against the earlier government system, and the roles of unlikely characters: overseas Chinese capitalists, American engineers, Japanese professors, and German designers. This is a story of revolutionary change that neither foreigners nor the Chinese themselves could have predicted.“Westad and Chen have written a masterful account of China’s modernization that illuminates the path it took to emerge as America’s only true peer competitor.”—Graham Allison, author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/834713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: XRP 2034: Future Proves Past Author: Dr. Stanley Quincy Upjohn Narrator: Dr. Stanley Quincy Upjohn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Prepare for a Mind-Blowing Journey into the Future of Finance! In XRP 2034: Future Proves Past, the most thrilling financial reset in world history is just beginning, and now you can experience it through this gripping audiobook! With the collapse of traditional banking and fiat currencies, XRP rises from the ashes, becoming the gold-backed foundation for a new global economy. This isn’t just a tale of economics—it’s a high-stakes adventure filled with groundbreaking insights into blockchain, military tribunals, and the radical implementation of Nesara-Gesara reforms. Let this audiobook transport you into a dystopian future where XRP reshapes the world, and listen closely as you uncover 100-year price predictions for XRP and all ISO 20022 tokens! Each chapter pulls you deeper into a prophetic vision of what could come, with revelations that will make you rethink everything you know about finance, freedom, and the future. Whether you're an investor, crypto enthusiast, or a lover of thrilling, high-concept narratives, XRP 2034 will leave you on the edge of your seat. Don’t just read it—hear the future unfold, and get ready for a financial revolution like no other! Get your copy today wherever audiobooks are sold - and remember future proves past and XRP has risen 8,000% since launch in 2013.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822577 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Security Analysis, Seventh Edition: Principles and Techniques Author: David Dodd, Benjamin Graham Narrator: Scott R. Pollak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 34 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 18, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: The classic work from the “father of value investing'—fully updated for today’s generation of investors. Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. With more than million copies sold, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of the legendary Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd. Security Analysis, Seventh Edition features the ideas and methods of today’s masters of value investing, who discuss the influence of Graham and Dodd on today’s markets and contextualize the philosophy that has influenced so many famous investors. The successful value investor must constantly be in the process of reinvention, of raising his or her game to navigate the terrain of new eras, novel securities, nascent businesses, emerging industries, shifting standards, and evolving market conditions. With the diverse perspectives of experienced contributors, this new edition of Security Analysis is a rich and varied tapestry of highly informed investment thinking that will be a worthy and long-lived successor to the preceding editions. This audiobook was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©1951, 2023 McGraw Hill (P)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mastering the Trade, Third Edition: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups Author: John Carter Narrator: Scott R. Pollak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 18, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: The go-to guide for launching a lucrative career in trading - fully updated for today’s turbulent markets. One of today’s most successful traders, John F. Carter has made his popular guide more relevant and effective than ever. This new audio edition of Mastering the Trade includes the essential content that has made it a bestselling classic, and includes critical new information for making the best trading decisions in every situation. Combining insightful market overview with trading strategies and concepts, Carter provides: - Proven set-ups, with optimal markets and non-negotiable trading rules - Exact entry, exit, and stop loss levels for swing and intraday trading - Seven key internals, from Skew to VIX - Pre-market checklist for analyzing recent market behavior - Scanning techniques for pinpointing high-probability setups - Effective risk control techniques - Methods for ensuring your computer runs at max speed - Techniques for predicting market corrections From valuable hardware and software to market mechanics, pivot points, and position sizing, Carter delivers a suite of tools for beating out the competition on a regular basis. Mastering the Trade, Third Edition builds your expertise in knowing what’s working for you and what’s working against you, so you make a living on the frontlines of professional trading. Mastering the Trade is expertly narrated by Scott R. Pollak. All charts and graphs referenced in this audiobook are included in the supplementary PDF. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2019 John F. Carter (P)2020 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/826377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Vagina Business: Wie Unternehmen mit bahnbrechenden Innovationen den Markt für Frauengesundheit revolutionieren Author: Marina Gerner Narrator: Nia Kluge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Warum Frauengesundheit nicht mehr ignoriert werden darf Von der Verhütung, Geburten über die Periode bis hin zur Menopause – Beschwerden, die den weiblichen Körper betreffen, werden immer noch zu wenig beachtet, oft bagatellisiert oder missverstanden. So verwundert es nicht, dass lediglich vier Prozent der gesamten Forschung im Gesundheitswesen auf das Wohl von Frauen ausgerichtet sind – mit negativen Folgen für die weibliche Gesundheit und letztlich zum Schaden für die gesamte Gesellschaft. Umso wichtiger ist es, mit den vorherrschenden Tabus zu brechen und Innovationen im Bereich Frauengesundheit zu fördern. Wie Vorreiter*innen in der FemTech-Branche mit ihren Unternehmen bereits Veränderung bewirken, zeigt Marina Gerner. Die Journalistin deckt auf, mit welchen Problemen diese Gründer*innen in den Vorstandsetagen auf der ganzen Welt zu kämpfen haben, und macht klar, was sich ändern muss. Hierzu spricht sie in Dutzenden Interviews mit den FemTech Innovator*innen, Forscher*innen und Investor*innen unserer Zeit. Sie bietet einen Blick auf bahnbrechende Ideen und Produkte wie beispielsweise Periodenunterwäsche, innovative Geburtshilfegeräte, hormonfreie Verhütungsmittel oder praktische Apps um die Fruchtbarkeit zu tracken und Dienstleistungs-Apps in Sachen Menopause. Ein Buch, das mehr als deutlich macht, warum weibliche Gesundheit kein Tabuthema mehr sein darf!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/811694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can't Hack the Future of Food Author: Julie Guthman Narrator: Lisa S. Ware Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises. Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finite capitalistic solutions and technological moonshots that do next to nothing to actualize a more just and sustainable system. The Problem with Solutions combines an analysis of the rise of tech company solution culture with findings from actual research on the sector's ill-informed attempts to address the problems of food and agriculture. As this seductive approach continues to infiltrate universities and academia, Guthman challenges us to reject apolitical and self-gratifying techno-solutions and develop the capacity and willingness to respond to the root causes of these crises. Solutions, she argues, are a product of our current condition, not an answer to it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance Author: Bronwen Everill Narrator: Patricia Rodriguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: 'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest ‘A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism’ Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It’s A Continent We need to think differently about African economics. For centuries, Westerners have tried to ‘fix’ African economies. From the abolition of slavery onwards, missionaries, philanthropists, development economists and NGOs have arrived on the continent, full of good intentions and bad ideas. Their experiments have invariably gone awry, to the great surprise of all involved. In this short, bold story of Western economic thought about Africa, historian Bronwen Everill argues that these interventions fail because they start from a misguided premise: that African economies just need to be more like the West. Ignoring Africa's own traditions of economic thought, Europeans and Americans assumed a set of universal economic laws that they thought could be applied anywhere. They enforced specifically Western ideas about growth, wealth, debt, unemployment, inflation, women’s work and more, and used Western metrics to find African countries wanting. The West does not know better than African nations how an economy should be run. By laying bare the myths and realities of our tangled economic history, Africonomics moves from Western ignorance to African knowledge.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752230 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World Author: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Narrator: Patrick Harrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2024 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR  “Vivid, revelatory, and politically unpredictable…What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn’t the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect.” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker 'A season of unrest looms ahead, and The Hidden Globe lays out the unvarnished truth in a luminous feat of reportage.”—Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star Tribune Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe that has become a haven for the rich and powerful.   A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside their borders, however, another universe has been engineered into existence. It consists of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, and increasingly for the benefit of the wealthiest individuals and corporations. Atossa Abrahamian traces the rise of this hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed their only commodity: bodies, in the form of mercenary fighters. Over time, economists, theorists, statesmen, and consultants evolved ever more sophisticated ways of exporting and exploiting statelessness, in the form of free trade zones, flags of convenience, offshore detention centers, charter cities controlled by foreign corporations, and even into outer space. By mapping this countergeography, which decides who wins and who loses in the new global order—and helping us to see how it might be otherwise—The Hidden Globe fascinates, enrages, and inspires.