Growth
A History and a Reckoning
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Daniel Susskind
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Economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the rise of vast inequalities, and destabilizing technologies. Faced with such damage, many now claim that the only way forward is through "degrowth," deliberately shrinking our economic footprint. Instead, Daniel Susskind argues, we must keep growth but redirect it, making it better reflect what we truly value.
Susskind shows how policymaking came to revolve around a single-minded quest for greater GDP. This is a recent development: economic growth was barely discussed until the second half of the twentieth century. And our understanding of what drives it is more recent still. Only lately have we come to see how humankind emerged from its millennia of stagnation: through the sustained discovery of powerful and productive new ideas. This insight undermines the mantra that "we cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet," for the world of ideas is infinitely vast. Yet we can no longer focus on its upsides alone. We must confront the tradeoffs, Susskind contends: sometimes, societies will have to deliberately pursue less growth for the sake of other goals. These will be moral decisions, not simply economic ones, demanding the engagement not just of politicians and experts, but of all citizens.
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Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family? As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an anthropologist observing local customs. “Forget about daily life,” chides her grandmother on the phone. “We named you for a whole continent and you’re filming a park.”
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3 out of 5 stars
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Can't say it's good
- De Moraz en 12-22-24
De: Aysegül Savas
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Stolen Pride
- Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
- De: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel "stolen"? Hochschild's research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping and insightful
- De Marianna Grossman en 12-27-24
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The Corporation in the 21st Century
- Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong
- De: John Kay
- Narrado por: Peter Wicks
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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John Kay's incisive overhaul of our ideas about business redefines our understanding of successful commercial activity and the corporation—and describes how we have come to "love the product" as we "hate the producer." This is a brilliant and original work from one of the greatest economists.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disjointed and disappointing.
- De Amazon Customer en 06-25-25
De: John Kay
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Orbital
- De: Samantha Harvey
- Narrado por: Sarah Naudi
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 461
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 405
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 405
A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reflections from above the earth
- De Marcia Morales-Jaffe en 11-24-24
De: Samantha Harvey
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The Work of Art
- Somerset Stories, Book 1
- De: Mimi Matthews
- Narrado por: Alex Wyndham
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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Hidden away in rural Devonshire, Phyllida Satterthwaite has always been considered more odd than beautiful. But in London, her oddity has made her a sensation. Far worse, it’s caught the eye of the sinister Duke of Moreland - a notorious art collector obsessed with acquiring one-of-a-kind treasures. To escape the duke’s clutches, she’s going to need a little help. Captain Arthur Heywood’s days of heroism are long past. Grievously injured in the Peninsular War, he can no longer walk unaided, let alone shoot a pistol. What use can he possibly be to a damsel in distress?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best!!!
- De Lori Dykes en 11-30-19
De: Mimi Matthews
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The Measure of Progress
- Counting What Really Matters
- De: Diane Coyle
- Narrado por: Harrie Dobby
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were entirely different from those of today. In The Measure of Progress, Diane Coyle argues that the framework underpinning today's economic statistics is so outdated that it functions as a distorting lens, or even a set of blinkers. When policymakers rely on such an antiquated conceptual tool, how can they measure, understand, and respond with any precision to what is happening in today's digital economy?
De: Diane Coyle
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A World Without Work
- Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
- De: Daniel Susskind
- Narrado por: Daniel Susskind
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 197
From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. But as Daniel Susskind demonstrates, this time really is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Technology deflation through the econ lens
- De Pimpernel Sandybanks en 04-15-20
De: Daniel Susskind
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Intermezzo
- A Novel
- De: Sally Rooney
- Narrado por: Éanna Hardwicke
- Duración: 16 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,427
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,323
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I felt a lot of empathy towards the excellently developed characters.
- De Hanoverian girl en 09-29-24
De: Sally Rooney
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The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- De: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 273
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This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others to work as they did in the 20th century.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I Hope It's Not All True
- De John en 05-01-16
De: Richard Susskind, y otros
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Patriot
- A Memoir
- De: Alexei Navalny
- Narrado por: Matthew Goode
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,134
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,064
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,064
Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted—and will come. Patriot is Navalny’s final letter to the world: a moving account of his last years spent in the most brutal prison on earth; a reminder of why the principles of individual freedom matter so deeply; and a rousing call to continue the work for which he sacrificed his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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oh finish your pumpkin latte and go do something to save the world
- De Svetlana en 11-02-24
De: Alexei Navalny
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Memory Piece
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Ko
- Narrado por: Eunice Wong
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 23
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In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. “Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves,” they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity. By the time they are adults, their dreams are murkier.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not good
- De Sara en 06-26-25
De: Lisa Ko
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Reading Genesis
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I couldn't finish it
- De Customer en 04-17-24
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The Unaccountability Machine
- Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
- De: Dan Davies
- Narrado por: Peter Dickson
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Illuminating.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-12-25
De: Dan Davies
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The Art of Work
- De: Jeff Goins
- Narrado por: Jeff Goins
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 547
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The path to your life's work is difficult and risky, even scary, which is why few finish the journey. This is a book about discovering your life's work, that treasure of immeasurable worth we all long for. It's about the task you were born to do. Through personal experience, compelling case studies, and current research on the mysteries of motivation and talent, Jeff shows listeners how to find their vocations and what to expect along the way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring!
- De M.R. en 05-19-15
De: Jeff Goins
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Memorial Drive
- A Daughter's Memoir
- De: Natasha Trethewey
- Narrado por: Natasha Trethewey
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,421
At age 19, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief.
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5 out of 5 stars
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poetic
- De Amazon Customer en 08-03-20
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Supremacy
- AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
- De: Parmy Olson
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now steers Google's AI efforts, has remained elusive—until now.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Author doesn’t understand AI
- De David en 09-30-24
De: Parmy Olson
The author does not ask a meaningful question, nor does he offer any meaningful solutions.
Summary: growth for the sake of growth is limiting, so people should talk more about alternatives
Meandering and ultimately unhelpful
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Looking for a conclusion that will sell books
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Interesting and consistent story
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Clear and concise
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