Free audiobookNo sign-up
The Price of Inequality
How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
- Narrated by Paul Boehmer
- Length
- 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date
- 06-11-12
- Language
- English
Free to listen Chapter 1
AdYour audiobook continues right after
Discover the full catalog
5 free listens and 5 downloads a day
High Quality
Listen in High Quality on raksBooks.com
This site streams in Low Quality for free. Studio-quality audio is available on raksBooks.com
Open on raksBooks.com
Daily free limit
You’ve used today’s free listens
- No daily limits
- High Quality audio
- Keep It Forever
20 chapters13h 4m
Publisher’s Summary
The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.”
Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable: moneyed interests compound their wealth by stifling true, dynamic capitalism. They have made America the most unequal advanced industrial country while crippling growth, trampling on the rule of law, and undermining democracy. The result: a divided society that cannot tackle its most pressing problems. With characteristic insight, Stiglitz examines our current state, then teases out its implications for democracy, for monetary and budgetary policy, and for globalization. He closes with a plan for a more just and prosperous future.
Details
- Author
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrator
- Paul Boehmer
- Length
- 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date
- 06-11-12
- Language
- English
The Price of Inequality Free Audiobook: Listen Online or Download
ListenAudiobook.com has plenty of free audio novels, memoirs and non-fiction, and The Price of Inequality by Joseph E. Stiglitz is one of them. Read by Paul Boehmer, the full recording is 13 hrs and 4 mins
Listen Free Online
Press Listen and it starts right here in your browser, on a phone, tablet or computer. You don't need an app or an account, and your place is saved for next time
Download for Free
Looking for a free audiobooks download with no sign-up? Press Download and The Price of Inequality saves to your device, ready to play whenever you are
Cheap Audiobooks on raksBooks.com
Want to keep The Price of Inequality audiobook? It's on raksBooks.com in High Quality, along with thousands of cheap audiobooks. Download audio books once and they're yours for good
Listener Reviews
-
Probably Better on Paper
Books like this one, presumably with charts and tables, are probably better with another medium. However, if you are going to listen to it as I did, it still does a pretty good job. Economic principles are pretty clearly explained, though if it is your first introduction to economics, you will probably want to look a few things up (moral hazard, market failures etc.), but he does't bury you in a mountain of technical language. As Stiglitz disclaims early, this is not a work for peer review. It is for popular consumption so if you are looking for some deep explanation as to how he arrived at his claims, you'll be left wanting. I am usually frustrated with books that prescribe solutions that we "merely lack the political will," to accomplish. It seems like activist thumb-twiddling. Every book of this type seems to have a portion like that. This one is no exception. I find the repetition of this trope frustrating.
-
Important book
Well argued and will make you angry. This book should be mandatory for Business students, if for no other reason than to give them some perspective of a side never taught in business school. I have an MBA and remember clearly the skepticism and derision heaped on the one professor who presented a balanced perspective. This book would stand a chance at giving the other side a fair hearing both because it is well argued and because of the author’s credentials
Write a review
Thank you for your review!
It is now waiting for a quick moderation check and will appear on this page once approved — usually within a day.
Related Audiobooks
Free Audiobook
Globalization and Its Discontents
Free Audiobook
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Free Audiobook
China’s Economy
Free Audiobook
Desert Runner
Free Audiobook
Crystal Kingdom
Free Audiobook
Wildsky
Free Audiobook
Thief of Time
Free Audiobook
The Living Image
Free Audiobook
Whispered Promises
Free Audiobook
Business Law: Contracts
Free Audiobook
Too Little, Too Late
Free Audiobook
Anatomy of an Epidemic