ILIAN PARASKOV
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Treasure Islands
- Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World
- By: Nicholas Shaxson
- Narrated by: Tim Bentinck
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 156
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 157
Most people regard tax havens as being relevant only to celebrities, crooks and spivs, and mistakenly believe that the main offshore problems are money laundering and terrorist financing. These are only small parts of the whole picture. The offshore system has been (discreetly) responsible for the greatest ever shift of wealth from poor to rich. It also undermines our democracies by offering the wealthiest members of society escape routes from normal democratic controls.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book on tax havens
- By Toombs on 09-03-11
- Treasure Islands
- Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World
- By: Nicholas Shaxson
- Narrated by: Tim Bentinck
A must read/listen to book
Reviewed: 10-15-17
The book itself is great. An amazing expose on the criminality of offshore behaviour.
The performance is solid. I like how the actor varied his accents, although his East Asian accent needs work.
The only negative feedback that I can give is that the audiobook performance needs to be edited. Several times the actor would repeat himself, or start over and once there was a long break where, I assume, he took a sip of much needed beverage.
Overall, it puts another piece of the puzzle of society in place. Maybe Jeffrey Wynters is right and we have always lived in oligarchic societies. This book certainly suggests so.
Finally, a warning: one section of this book directly debunks some modern economic libertarian tenents and beliefs. American self-described libertarians are guaranteed to be triggered by this section... or by the whole book for that matter.
Cheers!
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
- By: Daniel Kahneman
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
- Length: 20 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19,666
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16,313
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,158
The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Difficult Listen, but Probably a Great Read
- By Mike Kircher on 01-12-12
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- By: Daniel Kahneman
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
A must read/listen
Reviewed: 10-06-17
A gem of knowledge. Well worth listening to. The actor's voice is a bit dry, but it does not detract too much from the quality of the production.
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The book is rather long, but every minute of it oozes knowledge and is worth a re-listening to.
Much of the book may be unpalatable to libertarians, and the final chapter might be downright triggering but I think everyone should read/listen to this book at least once.
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Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,848
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,251
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,237
Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transformative to the point of being revolutionary
- By James C. Samans on 08-14-16
- Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
A must read for anyone interested in economics
Reviewed: 05-09-17
Excellent book. David Graeber has his bias, but his arguments are supported well. In my humble opinion, this is one of the most important books written post 2007 crisis. Not only does it challange the current paradigm that frames our way of thinking (one must always pay his debts) but it also provides alternatives (debt jubilee).
As an audio book it is easy to follow and the performance is good.
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