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Books piling up on your desk? No time to read? Save money, time, and accelerate your learning. For years, successful executives have been relying on getAbstract to summarize the most critical business books and deliver them in a flash. Now you can, too! getAbstract is the most efficient way to absorb the key ideas of today's cutting-edge business books. Our top-notch editorial team reads through thousands of titles and picks out the very best. Forget all the hot-air books. We select the ones that really make a difference. Each audio file has been compressed down to 10 minutes--the perfect length to grasp the book's main ideas and put you ahead of the pack. Here we present you Economic and Political Concepts. This audio collection summarizes the following ten hand-picked books that cover exactly what you want to know in this topic: -Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller -Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke -The New Financial Order: Risk in the Twenty-First Century by Robert J. Shiller -The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It by Robert J. Shiller -The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters by Diane Coyle -The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan -Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance by Avinash K. Dixit -From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession by Rakesh Khurana -The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott E. Page -A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark (c)2009 getAbstract (P)2009 getAbstract
