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The Problem with Solutions
- Why Silicon Valley Can't Hack the Future of Food
- By: Julie Guthman
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
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The Problem with Solutions
- Why Silicon Valley Can't Hack the Future of Food
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2024
- Language: English
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$23.97 or free with 30-day trial
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Tech Monopoly
- (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
- By: Herbert Hovenkamp
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In Tech Monopoly, Herbert Hovenkamp explores competition problems in a wide range of high-tech firms—from those that sell purely digital products, such as video streaming, search, software, or email services, to others that sell more traditional "tactile" products, such as hardware, clothing, groceries, or rides. He offers a realistic look at the powers and limitations of antitrust law in tech markets with an assessment that is as comprehensive as it is accessible.
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Tech Monopoly
- (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2024
- Language: English
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Behind the Startup
- How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
- By: Benjamin Shestakofsky
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs. Behind the Startup focuses instead on the role of capital and the influence of financiers. Drawing on nineteen months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, this book examines how the company was organized to meet the needs of the venture capital investors who funded it.
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Behind the Startup
- How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 28-05-2024
- Language: English
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The Rise of the American Corporate Security State
- Six Reasons to Be Afraid
- By: Beatrice Edwards
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Rise of the American Corporate Security State, Beatrice Edwards examines the real reasons to be afraid in twenty-first-century America, and outlines how we can address them. Our first steps in the right direction may be small, but they are important. They are based on the principle that we have a right to know what our government is doing and to speak openly about it.
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The Rise of the American Corporate Security State
- Six Reasons to Be Afraid
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-04-2025
- Language: English
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Margin over Mission
- When Private Equity Owns Your Hospital
- By: James Kelly
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In a country where health care is increasingly driven by profit, Margin over Mission exposes the dire consequences of corporate ownership in hospitals. James Kelly, an ICU nurse with over two decades of experience, narrates a gripping account of his final year at Lovelace Women's Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico—a year marred by preventable deaths, administrative changes, and the heartbreaking loss of a once-mission-driven institution to the clutches of Wall Street.
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Margin over Mission
- When Private Equity Owns Your Hospital
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2025
- Language: English
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From Pessimism to Promise
- Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech
- By: Payal Arora, Charles Hayes - foreword
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to tech, the mainstream headlines are bleak. While legitimate concerns drive these fears, we need to equally account for the fact that tech affords young people something incredibly valuable—a rare space for self-actualization. In From Pessimism to Promise, award-winning author Payal Arora explains that, outside the West, where most of the world's youth reside, there is a significant different outlook on tech: in fact, there is a contagion of optimism toward all things digital.
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From Pessimism to Promise
- Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 20-05-2025
- Language: English
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Elite Networks
- The Political Economy of Inequality
- By: Vuk Vukovic
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Elite networks are informal social networks between politicians in power and top executives of politically connected firms where personal ties and long-term interactions build trust and loyalty between involved actors. Both groups draw benefits from these interactions; politicians stay in power, and corporate executives extract rents for their firms. Firms reward connected executives with higher salaries thus widening the dispersion of earnings in society. In Elite Networks, Vuk Vukovic offers a different perspective on the long-run origins of inequality.
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Elite Networks
- The Political Economy of Inequality
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2025
- Language: English
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Money Capital
- New Monetary Principles for a More Prosperous Society
- By: Patrick Bolton, Haizhou Huang
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book, Patrick Bolton and Haizhou Huang offer a novel perspective, viewing monetary economics through the lens of corporate finance. They propose a richer theory, where money can be seen as the equity capital of a nation, playing a similar role as stocks for a company. This innovative framework integrates the real and monetary sides of the economy, with a banking sector and debt at its core.
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Money Capital
- New Monetary Principles for a More Prosperous Society
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 28-01-2025
- Language: English
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The Coming Healthcare Revolution
- 10 Forces That Will Cure America's Health Crisis
- By: Paul Kusserow, David W. Johnson
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The Coming Healthcare Revolution identifies and describes five top-down macro forces and five bottom-up market forces that have sufficient strength to transform the US healthcare industry from the outside-in. The powerful macro forces are demographic determinants, funding fatigue, chronic pandemics, technological imperatives, and pro-consumer/market reforms.
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The Coming Healthcare Revolution
- 10 Forces That Will Cure America's Health Crisis
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 24-12-2024
- Language: English
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The Circular Business Revolution
- A Practical Framework for Sustainable Business Models
- By: Manuel Braun, Julia Binder
- Narrated by: Jennifer Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether you're just starting to explore circularity, or you are already actively advancing a circular business agenda, this book caters to your unique journey. It introduces a set of circular business model patterns as a pathway to transformation and creating value in a circular economy. It offers over 100 real-world case studies of circular business model innovation to highlight emerging trends, new opportunities, and the pathway to sustainable change.
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The Circular Business Revolution
- A Practical Framework for Sustainable Business Models
- Narrated by: Jennifer Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 17-12-2024
- Language: English
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Inside the Invisible Cage
- How Algorithms Control Workers
- By: Hatim Rahman
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Inside the Invisible Cage uses unique longitudinal data to investigate how digital labor platforms use algorithms to dictate the actions of high-skilled workers by determining accepted behaviors, work opportunities, and even success. As Hatim Rahman explains, employers can use algorithms to shift rules and guidelines without notice, explanation, or recourse for workers. The invisible cage signals a profound shift in the way markets and organizations categorize and ultimately control people.
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Inside the Invisible Cage
- How Algorithms Control Workers
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 12-11-2024
- Language: English
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Uncommon Company
- Dissidents and Diplomats, Enemies and Artists
- By: William H. Luers
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In his revelatory memoir Uncommon Company, William Luers shares stories of his incredible career as a US diplomat to European and Latin American nations, where he introduced art and culture to forge common ground and community, improving the lives of citizens in many countries closed to Western ideas. Uplifting and inspirational, William Luers's Uncommon Company is the true story of a life well lived, celebrating the challenges and triumphs found in the virtues of being a servant leader.
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Uncommon Company
- Dissidents and Diplomats, Enemies and Artists
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2024
- Language: English
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Hospital, Heal Thyself
- One Brilliant Mathematician's Proven Plan for Saving Hospitals, Many Lives, and Billions of Dollars
- By: Mark Taylor
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Part biography and part clear-eyed examination of a healthcare system in crisis, Hospital, Heal Thyself tells the story of enigmatic healthcare visionary Eugene Litvak, whose research and strategies have already been implemented at many top twelve-ranked hospitals to save hundreds of millions of dollars and countless thousands of patient lives. While US healthcare costs continue to skyrocket, Litvak's program described in this book offers tested, effective methods to trim those costs while simultaneously improving patient outcomes.
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Hospital, Heal Thyself
- One Brilliant Mathematician's Proven Plan for Saving Hospitals, Many Lives, and Billions of Dollars
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2024
- Language: English
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Hack to the Future
- How World Governments Relentlessly Pursue and Domesticate Hackers
- By: Emily Crose
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Veteran information security professional Emily Crose delivers a deep dive into the history of the United States government's nuanced relationship with hacker culture and the role the latter has played in the former's domestic policy and geopolitics. In the book, you'll learn about significant events that have changed the way the hacking community has been perceived by the public, the state, and other hackers.
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Hack to the Future
- How World Governments Relentlessly Pursue and Domesticate Hackers
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2025
- Language: English
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