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"Thoughtful, highly readable account that brings economics to life."

R. Glenn Hubbard, dean, Columbia Business School

"A curious, enlightening and creative account of the world's three most influential
economists, and why their theories have had such a huge impact on the economic
history of the modern world."

Robert J. Shiller, Yale University

"I love Mark Skousen's book about the history of economistsit is so interesting and
well written, and helps us visualize the big picture."

Jeremy J. Siegel, Wharton School
and University of Pennslyvania

The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez faire; Karl Marx, reflecting the radical socialist model; and John Maynard Keynes, symbolizing big government and the welfare state.

History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views that continue to play a fundamental role in today's politics and economics.

In the twenty-first century, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" model has gained the upper hand, and capitalism has ultimately won the ideological battle over socialism and interventionism. But even in the era of globalization and privatization, Keynesian and Marxist ideas continue to play a significant role in economic policy in the public and private sectors.

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach | ISBN: 978-1-4332-0091-5

Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?

These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing—and whose conclusions turn the conventional wisdom on its head. Thus the new field of study contained in this audiobook: Freakonomics.

Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives—how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they explore the hidden side of . . . well, everything. The inner working of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The secrets of the Klu Klux Klan.

What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking, and Freakonomics will redefine the way we view the modern world.

Narrator: Stephen J. Dubner | ISBN: 9780061254697

Many people don’t think of Billy Graham in connection with leadership. Yet the truth is that behind the scenes Dr. Graham has personified what Jim Collins in his bestseller Good to Great calls a Level 5 leader – a paradoxical mix of personal humility and professional will to advance the cause of Christ’s kingdom. Graham’s fingerprints are on many of the key Christian institutions such as his founding of the media presence of Christianity Today, the National Association of Evangelicals, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association with all of its media arms, as well as global coalitions such as the Lausanne and Amsterdam conferences.

The book takes us behind the scenes singling out twenty key principles of leadership, with character traits, and illustrates them with stories and examples from the life of Billy Graham. Rather than being a chronological biography, the book is an insightful story-driven analysis of the leadership of perhaps the world’s best-known religious leader who has been on Gallop’s top ten most-admired-men list thirty-nine times – more than any other individual. At the turn of the century Dr. Graham was named one of Time’s top ten leaders of the century. The book includes transferable applications providing readers with take-home value whether they are involved in leadership in a church, parachurch, business, or educational setting.

Narrator: Larry Black | ISBN: 0310255791

The characters in Then We Came to the End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. By day they compete for the best office furniture left behind and try to make sense of the mysterious pro-bono ad campaign that is their only remaining "work."

Narrator: Joshua Ferris | ISBN: 1594836450

Ugly Americans is the true story of John Malcolm, a Princeton graduate who traveled halfway around the world in search of the American dream and pulled off a trade that could be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets.

Without speaking a word of Japanese, with barely a penny in his pocket, Malcolm was thrown into the bizarre life of an ex-pat trader. Surrounded by characters ripped right out of a Hollywood thriller, he quickly learned how to survive in a cutthroat world -- at the feet of the biggest players the markets have ever known.

Malcolm was first an assistant trading huge positions for Nick Leeson, the rogue trader who brought down Barings Bank -- the oldest in England. He was the right-hand man to an enigmatic and brilliant hedge-fund cowboy, Dean Carney, and grew into one of the biggest derivatives traders in all of Asia. Along the way, Malcolm fell in love with the daughter of a Yakuza gangster, built a vast fortune out of thin air, and came head to head with violent Japanese mobsters. Malcolm and his twentysomething, Ivy League-schooled colleagues rode the crashing waves of the Asian markets during the mid-to late 1990s, culminating in a single deal the likes of which had never been seen before, or since.

A real-life mixture of Liar’s Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic characters, Ugly Americans is the untold, true story that will rock the financial community and redefine an era.

Narrator: Ben Mesrich | ISBN: 0 06 072325 4

• Intel Wants to Be Inside Everything
  Posted on 2 Sep 2010 at 11:00pm
  Intel is counting on its Atom embedded processors to help break its dependence on the slowing PC market
  
• The EPA's Power Play
  Posted on 2 Sep 2010 at 11:00pm
  Agency chief Lisa Jackson is using her authority under the Clean Air Act to control carbon emissions
  
• Business Exchange: Carbon Markets
  Posted on 3 Sep 2010 at 12:45pm
  
• Italy Goes After Tax Dodgers
  Posted on 2 Sep 2010 at 5:00pm
  Berlusconi's government is now determined to recoup $13 billion in unpaid taxes
  
• Shadow Economies on the Rise Around the World
  Posted on 29 Jul 2010 at 11:55pm
  A report identifies countries with the largest shadow economies, many of which are half as large as official GDP?a huge loss in tax revenue
  

• Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents
  Posted on 15 Aug 2010 at 3:08am
  In a dozen countries ? including in North Africa, Pakistan and former Soviet republics ? the United States has significantly increased military and intelligence operations.
  
  
  
• Political Memo: Obama Says Mosque Remarks Were Not Endorsement
  Posted on 15 Aug 2010 at 3:40am
  President Obama?s attempt to reframe comments about a community center in New York City had him plunging into a debate about Islam and American identity.
  
  
  
• This Time, Voter Anger Is No Surprise to Democrats
  Posted on 15 Aug 2010 at 3:38am
  Among the advantages Republicans hold as they seek to control Congress, one thing is missing: surprise. Unlike in 1994, there will be no sneak attacks.
  
  
  
• U.S. Offers Aid to Rescue Pakistanis and Reclaim Image
  Posted on 15 Aug 2010 at 3:22am
  American officials allowed that they were seeking to use a sizable response to Pakistan?s floods to boost the United States? image there.
  
  
  
• In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming
  Posted on 15 Aug 2010 at 3:41am
  The summer?s heat waves in the eastern United States, parts of Africa and eastern Asia, and above all Russia, are reviving the question of whether global warming is causing more weather extremes.
  
  
  

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