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We Need to Talk About Inflation 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C544538Y | 2023 | 6 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 368 MB
Author: Stephen D. King
Narrator: Jonathan Cowley

From investors and monetary authorities to governments and policy makers, almost everyone had assumed inflation was dead and buried. But now people the world over are confronting a poisonous new economic reality and, with it, the prospect of vast and increasing wealth inequality. How have we arrived in this situation? And what, if anything, can we do about it? Celebrated economist Stephen D. King-one of the few to warn ahead of time about the latest inflationary upheaval-identifies key lessons from the history of inflation that policy makers chose not to heed. From ancient Rome through the American Civil War and up to the asset bubbles of today, inflation stems from policy error, sovereign greed, and a collective loss of faith in currencies. We Need to Talk About Inflation cuts through centuries of bad judgment and misunderstanding, offering a means to intervene now-so we can begin to tackle the political and social upheaval unleashed by inflation.

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How to Write About Africa Collected Works [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BJ468RCB | 2023 | 14 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 408 MB
Author: Binyavanga Wainaina
Narrator: Dominic Hoffman, Yinka Ladeinde

From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality. "Africa is the only continent you can love-take advantage of this. . . . Africa is to be pitied, worshipped, or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed." Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist, and a gatherer of literary communities. Before his tragic death in 2019 at the age of forty-seven, he won the Caine Prize for African Writing and was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People.

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Don’t Even Think About It Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, 2023 Edition [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C6YD5R5C | 2023 | 8 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 248 MB
Author: George Marshall
Narrator: John Lee

An Esquire Essential Book on Climate Change. From the founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network, a groundbreaking take on the most urgent question of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change? Most of us recognize that climate change is real yet we do nothing to stop it. What is the psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? George Marshall’s search for the answers brings him face to face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists and Texas Tea Party activists; the world’s leading climate scientists and those who denounce them; liberal environmentalists and conservative evangelicals. What he discovers is that our values, assumptions, and prejudices can take on lives of their own, gaining authority as they are shared, dividing people in their wake.

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