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Penguin presents the audiobook edition Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World written and read by Anand Giridharadas. *The New York Times bestseller* 'Entertaining and gripping . . . For those at the helm, the philanthropic plutocrats and aspiring "change agents" who believe...

Private equity buccaneers have generated untold wealth by plundering the worlds of commerce, defence and sport. In the process they have also destroyed jobs, hurt consumers, neglected environmental concerns and undermined public trust in share markets. In this book, Alex Brummer, City Editor at...

What was a Buddhist monk doing at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos lecturing the world's leaders on mindfulness? Why do many successful corporations have a chief happiness officer? What can the chemical composition of your brain tell a potential employer about you? In the past decade, governments and corporations have become increasingly interested in measuring the way people feel: the Happiness index, Gross National Happiness, well-being and positive psychology have come to dominate the way we live our lives.

Brought to you by Penguin. On Fire by Naomi Klein is read by Rebecca Lowman with an introduction read by the author. For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet - and the champion of a sweeping environmental agenda...

Brought to you by Penguin. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical...

"In capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity." This essay raises interesting questions: is work really a virtue? Isn't work the source of many social imbalances? These are all questions that lend themselves to an exciting and topical debate on the role of work in our society.

El gran clásico de divulgación económica que ha ayudado a millones de lectores a entender cómo funciona el mundo - versión ampliada y actualizada Economía básica es un manual para aquellos que quieren entender cómo funciona la economía sin enredarse con fórmulas matemáticas o...

This is a book about choices. Not the kind you make when you decide who to marry, whether to quit your job, or when to go for a hike. It’s about the kind that hardly existed a hundred years ago but now govern our lives. The kind that have architects. Choose Your Captivity exposes the hidden...

From "our next great American historian" (Geraldine Brooks), an astonishingly ambitious account of how our desires became the engine that built the modern world To want is human. To want without end is modern. Our desires have never been easier to satisfy or harder to escape, shaped by a system...

Ottawa, February 2022. Canadian banks freeze the accounts of protest donors without a court order, and people learn at store counters that their cards have stopped working. Four years later, in January 2026, Canada's Federal Court of Appeal rules the emergency invocation behind those freezes unreasonable and beyond the law. Between those two dates sits the question this book exists to answer: what is money worth if someone else decides when it works?

Un texto lúcido y provocador, escrito con el estilo inconfundible de Slavoj Žižek, que invita a repensar qué significa resistir y mantener la esperanza en un mundo en ruinas. Las reflexiones de Punto cero se centran en cómo distinguir la derrota del desastre y cómo afrontar la...

Профессор Пенсильванского университета, автор семи книг Кристен Годси объясняет, почему триумф капитализма в странах первого и второго мира не стал выходом для большинства женщин.

John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and...

Die Zukunft denkbar machen. Eine Idee von Zukunft entwickeln. Darüber nachdenken, wovon wir Menschen uns verabschieden müssen, wenn wir die Zivilisation und unsere existenziellen Lebensgrundlagen bewahren möchten. Marc Pendzich möchte das. Mit dem zentralen Essay „Eine neue Geschichte der Zukunft" stellt er eine neue mögliche Grunderzählung vor, darüber, wer wir Menschen sind, wo wir herkommen und wer wir künftig sein können.

The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, OxyContin and the opioid crisis. The inspiration behind the Netflix series Painkiller, starring Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick. Read by the author, Patrick Radden Keefe. Winner...

Der Kapitalismus ist, wie Clara E. Mattei zeigt, weder naturgegeben noch unvermeidlich – er ist ein vergleichsweise junges System, das überwunden werden kann und muss. In ihrer Streitschrift erklärt die Ökonomin, warum anhaltende Probleme wie Armut, Arbeitslosigkeit und Inflation keine Fehler im System sind, sondern dessen zentrale Wesensmerkmale.

In Private Power and Democracy's Decline, Mordecai Kurz explores the relationship between free-market capitalism and democracy. He shows that technology has made capitalism different from what was envisioned in the Age of Enlightenment. Technology creates centers of market power and monopoly concentration that result in a society in which some people are enriched immensely while many workers' livelihoods are often destroyed.

Bloomsbury presents 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang, read by Joe Barrett. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "For anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable."-Observer...

For years, the "Mark of the Beast" has been relegated to the realm of fringe theory—a bogeyman for the superstitious, a metaphor for moral decay, or a plot point in low-budget cinema. But as I cross-referenced the functional requirements of a global, cashless economy with the specific constraints outlined in Revelation 13, the skepticism I had carefully cultivated began to erode. I realized that we have been looking for a villain—a singular, dark figure to appear on the world stage—when we should have been looking for an infrastructure. The "Beast" is not a man. It is a system.

Hartmut Rosas pointierter Essay ist nicht nur eine konzise Einführung in die Theorie der Beschleunigung, sondern eröffnet auch erste Perspektiven, wie wir dem rasenden Stillstand entkommen können. Die rasante Beschleunigung des sozialen Lebens ist eines der hervorstechenden Merkmale der Gegenwart.