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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

• What SAP Needs After Apotheker
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  Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe must revitalize SAP's product pipeline, soothe customers, and counter competition from Oracle
  
• Apotheker Says He Did What Was Best
  Posted on 9 Feb 2010 at 11:54am
  
• Super Bowl Ads Don't Age Well
  Posted on 9 Feb 2010 at 11:54am
  An advertising executive asks why consumer companies spend millions to ignore or insult the over-50 audience that buys the most products
  
• Consumer Stocks Stall Amid Surprising Earnings
  Posted on 9 Feb 2010 at 4:57am
  Better-than-expected profits and sales aren't helping consumer discretionary stocks maintain last year's big gains
  
• It’s Time for Toyota's CEO to Go
  Posted on 9 Feb 2010 at 11:54am
  How far has Toyota fallen? Americans are switching to Motown cars, Ralph Nader is back, and Toyota has lost the equivalent of Latvia's GDP in market value, says William Pesek
  

• McCain, Facing G.O.P. Foe in Primary, Tilts to the Right
  Posted on 9 Feb 2010 at 8:43am
  Challenged by J. D. Hayworth from the airwaves, and soon in a primary, John McCain has moved starkly, and often awkwardly, to the right.
  
  
  
• On Health Bill, G.O.P.?s Road Is a New Map
  Posted on 9 Feb 2010 at 8:55am
  Republicans this month will bring President Obama a set of ideas and a more modest health care plan.
  
  
  
• Toyota Details Recall of 2010 Prius for Brake Problems
  Posted on 9 Feb 2010 at 10:51am
  The worldwide recall will affect about 437,000 units of the 2010 Prius and other hybrid models, according to the company?s filing.
  
  
  
• News Analysis: For Kremlin, an Election in Ukraine Cuts Two Ways
  Posted on 9 Feb 2010 at 8:48am
  Russia?s preferred candidate is the apparent winner, but the starkly contested presidential race contrasts sharply with Russia?s recent history.
  
  
  
• Making Solar Power Portable
  Posted on 9 Feb 2010 at 10:52am
  A growing number of business travelers are using portable renewable energy devices to power up their electronics when they work in places that offer little or no access to electricity.
  
  
  

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