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From a best-selling author with unprecedented access to Pope Francis, an investigative look at the recent financial scandals at the highest levels of the Vatican. A veritable war is waging in the church: On one side there is Pope Francis' strong message for one church of the poor and all; on the other there is the old Curia, with its endless enemies, and the old and new lobbies struggling to preserve their not-so-Christian privileges.

The free-market, limited-government development model has been an ecological and social disaster for the developing world. Sustainable and equitable development is only possible with the active involvement of a strong central state that can guide the economy, protect the environment, and prioritize meeting their people’s basic needs. In this sure-to-be-controversial audiobook, Chandran Nair shows that the market-dominated model followed by the industrialized West is simply not scalable.

Tensions between the world's superpowers are mounting in Washington, D.C., and Beijing. But between these hubs of high-level politics, an entirely new reality is emerging. Yet the People's Republic of China and the state of California have built deep and interdependent socioeconomic exchanges that reverberate across the globe, and these interactions make California a microcosm of the most important international relationship of the 21st century. In The Transpacific Experiment, journalist Matt Sheehan chronicles the real people who are making these connections.

World 3.0 reveals how we're not nearly as globalized as we think we are, and how people around the world can secure their collective prosperity through new approaches to cross-border integration. Provocative and bold, this new audiobook will surprise and move you, no matter where you stand on globalization.

In Competition Is Killing Us, top business and competition lawyer Michelle Meagher establishes a new framework to control capitalism from the inside in order to make it work for the many and not just the few. Meagher has spent years campaigning against these multi-billion- and trillion-dollar mammoths that dominate the market and prioritise shareholder profits over all else; leading to extreme wealth inequality, inhumane conditions for workers and relentless pressure on the environment.

Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook of The Road to Ruin, written and read by James Rickards. The global economy has made what seems like an incredible comeback after the financial crisis of 2008. Yet this comeback is artificial. Central banks have propped up markets by keeping interest rates low and the supply of money free-flowing. They won't bail us out again next time. And there will be a next time...soon.

La democracia y el capitalismo pueden ser dolorosos, y no siempre te gustan los resultados. Algunos días se gana, pero la mayoría de los días se pierde. Bajo una dictadura, la vida puede ser buena por un tiempo, pero tus antepasados eventualmente morirán de hambre y terminarán en una balsa rumbo a un país capitalista cercano. El marxismo tiene mucho sentido en teoría, pero en la práctica, cada vez que se ha intentado ha fracasado. Esto puede llevar un par de décadas, y el éxito del comunismo requiere una relación parasitaria con un sistema capitalista, ya que tiene que venderse ...

Empty shelves, queues for petrol and energy shortages: crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now become a reality as global shipping times are squeezed, containers lie unopened at docks and supply shortages push up inflation, increasing the cost of consumer goods from milk to cars to building materials. In Sold Out!, economic forecaster James Rickards (The Road to Ruin, The Death of Money) explains why the shelves are empty, who fractured the supply chain and why shortages will persist.

Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Why did the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries suffer a prolonged economic slowdown in the last two decades of the 20th century? What was the role of the International Monetary Fund in these economic failures?

India is at a crossroads today. Its growth rate, while respectable relative to other large countries, is too low for the jobs our youth need. Intense competition in low-skilled manufacturing, increasing protectionism globally and growing automation make the situation still more difficult. In this book, the authors explain how we can accelerate economic development by investing in our people’s human capital, expanding opportunities in high-skilled services and manufacturing centered on innovative new products, and making India a ferment of ideas and creativity.

To understand how humans react and adapt to economic change we need to study people who live in harsh environments. This audiobook tells the personal stories of humans living in extreme situations, and of the financial infrastructure they create. Here, economies are not concerned with the familiar stock market crashes, housing crises, or banking scandals of the financial pages.

El capitalismo es la respuesta a todos los problemas políticos y fiscales de Estados Unidos, pero la continua intervención bancaria y gubernamental está arruinando nuestro país y nuestra moneda. Los estadounidenses necesitan menos gobierno y vamos a tener que pasar por un doloroso final de la mayor recesión que comenzó en 2007 y continúa hasta el día de hoy. Un dólar de 2020 ahora vale 0,72 dólares y está disminuyendo, y no importa cuál sea su política porque nuestros líderes a nivel municipal, estatal y nacional están ignorando la crisis de deuda que se avecina. De manera ...

It's time to reimagine how life is organized on Earth. In Connectography, Parag Khanna guides us through the emerging global network civilization in which mega-cities compete over connectivity and borders are increasingly irrelevant. Travelling across the world, Khanna shows how twenty-first-century conflict is a tug-of-war over pipelines and Internet cables, advanced technologies and market access.

What if we could hit the reset button on the way we create money, work, commerce, and community? This is not an idle question, for technology now enables us to hit that reset button and organize the creation of money, work, commerce, and community in new ways. If we could start from scratch, what would a new system look like? To answer that, we must understand why the current system is failing. The current system is based on five principles that are assumed to be true.

The 20th century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that political consensus appears to be breaking down, disrupted by polarization and income inequality, widespread dissatisfaction with democratic institutions, and insurgent populism. Tracing the history of democratic capitalism over the past two centuries, Carles Boix explains how we got here - and where we could be headed.

China ist keine ferne Bedrohung mehr, China ist da! Politisch und wirtschaftlich. Das Reich der Mitte ist ehrgeizig, schnell und gut organisiert, es ist innovativ wie das Silicon Valley und bestimmt zunehmend die internationalen Spielregeln. China setzt auf Wachstum und digitale Technologien und hält sich nicht mit dem westlichen Demokratiemodell auf. Auf allen Kontinenten investiert es in Bodenschätze, Schlüsselindustrien und Infrastruktur - auch bei uns.

Un análisis valiente, claro y con propuestas alternativas de la inflación y los demás problemas de la economía mundial tras la Covid-19 y la guerra de Ucrania. Una guía para entender con sencillez la inflación actual y la crisis que viene. La economía internacional va encadenando una crisis económica con la siguiente. Cuando aún no habíamos salido del traumático shock de la pandemia de Covid-19, la crisis desatada por la guerra de Ucrania ha venido a lastrar aún más la recuperación. La inestabilidad es cada vez más recurrente, y las transformaciones económicas se producen a un ritmo vertiginoso.

If you want to understand what is really happening in politics and in the international monetary system, you have to read this book! Money today is a political tool. To understand the implications of this, you first have to understand the agenda of those who wield political power. The political trend for decades has been toward democratic socialism, with its abhorrence of markets and its love of the planned economy. Its continued success must worry anyone who desires freedom and prosperity. The Global Currency Plot puts socialism to a rigorous test of logic and finds it wanting. Polleit ...

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El mayor regalo dado al mundo en el siglo pasado fue la Marina de los Estados Unidos y su facilitación del comercio global mediante la anulación de armadas menores, la lucha contra la piratería y el mantenimiento de rutas marítimas abiertas. El mundo ha experimentado un enorme crecimiento económico y, en un momento dado, hay entre 50.000 y 60.000 grandes buques portacontenedores en el mar. Esto ha sido posible gracias a los buques de guerra de todo el mundo, y es algo que no aprecian las personas que disfrutan de precios más bajos como resultado de la competencia y la posibilidad de ...