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Best sellers
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Disunited Nations
- The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
- By: Peter Zeihan
- Narrated by: Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Find out more....
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All idiots except USA, according to author.
- By N. R. Gawlak on 05-09-20
By: Peter Zeihan
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Price Wars
- How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World
- By: Rupert Russell
- Narrated by: Ben Deery
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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For Rupert Russell, the Brexit vote was only the latest shock in a decade full of them: the unstoppable war in Syria, huge migrant flows into Europe, beheadings in Iraq, children placed in cages on the U.S. border....
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I really wanted to like it
- By Monte Johnston on 04-09-22
By: Rupert Russell
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Capital Without Borders
- Wealth Managers and the One Percent
- By: Brooke Harrington
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Capital Without Borders tackles this tantalizing question through a groundbreaking multi-year investigation of the men and women who specialize in protecting the fortunes of the world's richest people....
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Good critical view point
- By AU113 on 02-23-21
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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
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In his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration - and explains how to live in it....
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It really is an optimists guide to scary stuff
- By Adam Shields on 12-12-16
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The Shock Doctrine
- The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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In her ground-breaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism"....
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read w/Confessions of an Economic Hitman books.
- By Tom on 10-08-11
By: Naomi Klein
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The World
- A Brief Introduction
- By: Richard Haass
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and non-expert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world beyond our borders....
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Excellent Primer for young adults
- By Howells on 05-24-20
By: Richard Haass
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Disunited Nations
- The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
- By: Peter Zeihan
- Narrated by: Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Find out more....
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All idiots except USA, according to author.
- By N. R. Gawlak on 05-09-20
By: Peter Zeihan
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Price Wars
- How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World
- By: Rupert Russell
- Narrated by: Ben Deery
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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For Rupert Russell, the Brexit vote was only the latest shock in a decade full of them: the unstoppable war in Syria, huge migrant flows into Europe, beheadings in Iraq, children placed in cages on the U.S. border....
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I really wanted to like it
- By Monte Johnston on 04-09-22
By: Rupert Russell
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Capital Without Borders
- Wealth Managers and the One Percent
- By: Brooke Harrington
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Capital Without Borders tackles this tantalizing question through a groundbreaking multi-year investigation of the men and women who specialize in protecting the fortunes of the world's richest people....
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Good critical view point
- By AU113 on 02-23-21
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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration - and explains how to live in it....
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It really is an optimists guide to scary stuff
- By Adam Shields on 12-12-16
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The Shock Doctrine
- The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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In her ground-breaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism"....
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read w/Confessions of an Economic Hitman books.
- By Tom on 10-08-11
By: Naomi Klein
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The World
- A Brief Introduction
- By: Richard Haass
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and non-expert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world beyond our borders....
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Excellent Primer for young adults
- By Howells on 05-24-20
By: Richard Haass
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Wonderland
- How Play Made the Modern World
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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This history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change....
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It will delight you
- By T. Leach on 02-09-17
By: Steven Johnson
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The Quest
- Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
- By: Daniel Yergin
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 29 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them....
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Best nonfiction book of 2011
- By Joshua Kim on 05-06-12
By: Daniel Yergin
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The Precipice
- Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Social Change
- By: Noam Chomsky, C.J. Polychroniou
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital....
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Of Incalculable Importance
- By Anonymous User on 12-15-21
By: Noam Chomsky, and others
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Enemy of All Mankind
- A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world....
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Pirates and the stock market
- By Riley P. on 09-08-20
By: Steven Johnson
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
- By: Fareed Zakaria
- Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps listeners to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic impacts that may take years to unfold....
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SADLY HOPEFUL
- By Frances J. Freeman on 10-11-20
By: Fareed Zakaria
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
- Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Davis, Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world....
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Injustice anywhere is Injustice everywhere
- By Jarucia Jaycox on 05-05-17
By: Angela Y. Davis
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Tragedy and Hope 101
- The Illusion of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy
- By: Joseph Plummer
- Narrated by: Joshua Mackey
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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Based on the groundbreaking research of respected historian Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope 101 reveals an unimaginably devious political system, skillfully manipulated by a handful of elite, which is undermining freedom and democracy as we know it....
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Must read for everyone
- By David Johnson on 03-12-19
By: Joseph Plummer
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
- By: Kate Raworth
- Narrated by: Kate Raworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality,....
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Healthy doughnut encounter!
- By Liz Lem on 08-20-18
By: Kate Raworth
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The World Is Flat
- Further Updated and Expanded
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
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With the "flattening" of the globe, the world may have gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner....
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worth the listen
- By Paul W. Johnson on 01-14-08
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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How We Got to Now investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life....
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connect the dots
- By Raleigh on 03-08-17
By: Steven Johnson
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The Horde
- How the Mongols Changed the World
- By: Marie Favereau
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the 13th and 14th centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles....
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Golden Horde complete history, well done
- By Amazon Customer on 03-10-22
By: Marie Favereau
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ColdFusion Presents
- New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World
- By: Dagogo Altraide
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Dagogo Altraide of YouTube's ColdFusion breaks down the history of gamechanger breakthroughs in the world of science and technology that have shaped our modern world and will impact the future....
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AMAZING BOOK
- By Faith on 01-21-20
By: Dagogo Altraide
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Oneness vs. the 1%
- Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
- By: Vandana Shiva, Kartikey Shiva
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaires club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world....
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Bombshell
- By Anonymous User on 02-24-21
By: Vandana Shiva, and others
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Scanned
- Why Vaccine Passports and Digital IDs Will Mean the End of Privacy and Personal Freedom
- By: Nick Corbishley
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Imagine being physically denied access to your office, business, or livelihood. Imagine being refused entry to a grocery store or being told who you can or cannot sit with at a restaurant. Imagine being barred from a hospital room when you or your family member needs critical care....
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Wake up time
- By brian on 04-10-22
By: Nick Corbishley
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The Industries of the Future
- By: Alec Ross
- Narrated by: Alec Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next 10 years....
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Ok review of what is now. Not much future.
- By Sam on 05-06-16
By: Alec Ross
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Propaganda and the Public Mind
- By: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Renowned interviewer David Barsamian showcases his unique access to Chomsky’s thinking on a number of topics of contemporary and historical import....
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Letting the Facts Speak for Themselves
- By Susie on 10-01-15
By: Noam Chomsky, and others
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The Outlaw Ocean
- Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
- By: Ian Urbina
- Narrated by: Jason Culp, Ian Urbina
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
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An adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas....
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Subject interesting, but some facts not true
- By Worldoceans on 12-09-19
By: Ian Urbina
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Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order
- By: Patrick Wood
- Narrated by: Patrick M. Wood
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Looking underneath the cover of globalization, Wood shatters the false narrative of a promised utopia and exposes the true nature of the deception used to promote this new economic order, in this audiobook....
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A MUST !! Understand and Read documents of world r
- By Jaim on 04-23-20
By: Patrick Wood
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Uncommon Grounds
- The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
- By: Mark Pendergrast
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
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Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....
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Décent overarching review of coffee history digressing into its American commercialization
- By seajaywood on 05-23-19
By: Mark Pendergrast
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Planet Palm
- How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything - and Endangered the World
- By: Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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A groundbreaking global investigation into the industry ravaging the environment and global health - from the James Beard Award-winning journalist....
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Planet of Slums
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live....
By: Mike Davis
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One World Now
- The Ethics of Globalization
- By: Peter Singer
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Influential philosopher Peter Singer addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization, foreign aid, human rights, immigration, and the responsibility to protect people from genocide and crimes against humanity, whatever country they may be in....
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Extraordinarily interesting read!
- By luca momigliano on 09-06-21
By: Peter Singer
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Royal Blood Lies
- By: Susan Bradford
- Narrated by: Vivienne Wright
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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The audiobook reveals how Jesus Christ established the divine right (rite) to rule and why and how aspiring rulers have sought to usurp this right....
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was the narrator AI?
- By Ian R on 10-13-21
By: Susan Bradford
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Globalists
- The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
- By: Quinn Slobodian
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization....
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Profoundly tedious book, somnolent reader
- By Ronald on 11-14-20
By: Quinn Slobodian