Tag: Barons

Free Download Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3MD5Q6M | 2024 | 6 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Austin Frerick, Eric Schlosser
Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies
Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture. Mike benefited from deregulation of the American food industry, a phenomenon that has consolidated wealth in the hands of select tycoons, and along the way, hollowed out the nation’s rural towns and local businesses. Along with Mike McCloskey, listeners will meet a secretive German family that took over the global coffee industry in less than a decade, relying on wealth traced back to the Nazis to gobble up countless independent roasters.

Free Download Allen Andrews, "The Whiskey Barons"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1897784848 | EPUB | pages: 130 | 3.1 mb
The success of today’s whisky industry was based largely on the commercial drive and foresight of a select group of whisky merchants who took the business world by storm in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. As the manufacture of blended whisky took off, the likes of Tommy Dewar, Thomas Buchanan, John Walker, Arthur Bell and Peter Mackie all established brands that have remained amongst the top-selling whiskies in the world. These men had much in common: they were all Scots from humble beginnings, served long apprenticeships and ultimately set out on their own to build their own companies. This is the story of how these Scots changed the face of the world of whisky for ever, and in doing so became incredibly wealthy. The industry that they took by the scruff of the neck has never looked back and many of the sales techniques and the business culture they created are still in place today.

Free Download How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation―and How to Strike Back by Ariel Ezrachi, Maurice E. Stucke
English | June 28, 2022 | ISBN: 0063030888 | 236 pages | PDF | 4.16 Mb
Two market experts deconstruct the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in the digital economy, explain how large tech companies can stifle disruption, assess the toll of their technologies on our well-being and democracy, and outline policy changes to take poweraway from big tech and return it to entrepreneurs.