text: Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Tantor Audio at Spring Brook Audio. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four
  Through the narrative of one of the most widely read texts on the history of economic thought, the great economic thinkers--from Adam Smith to Malthus, from Marx to Veblen, from Keynes to modern-day economists--come to life in the context of their ti...
  Growth is good. Through history, economic growth, in particular, has alleviated human misery, improved human happiness and opportunity, and lengthened human lives. Wealthier societies are more stable, offer better living standards, produce better med...
  First identified by journalist Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired article, "crowdsourcing" describes the process by which the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the province of the specialized few. Howe reveals that th...
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  [This is Part 2 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] First published in 1776, this work is the classic statement of economic liberalism or the policy of laissez-faire. Several fundamental principles or ''axioms'' were introd...
  Nobel prize-winner F.A. Hayek is one of the great thinkers of the 20th 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 ...
  John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was without question the most influential economist of the twentieth century. His most important work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, was published in 1936, and it was widely perceived as offeri...
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  In this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwins theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed in society...
  The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy. An elite that had once been the flat line on the ...
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