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NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world...

In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history in the vein of the works of Michael Lewis and Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial executive and CNBC contributor examines the five most significant stock market crashes in the United States over the past century...

"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The Economist The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists Hailed by...

America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers and Colombian cocaine in the modern era. Contraband capitalism, it turns out, has been an integral part of American capitalism.

Oda Bjerkan, adm. dir. i UN Global Compact Norge, og Øystein Eriksen Søreide, adm. dir. i Abelia, inviterer innflytelsesrike stemmer for å snakke om bærekraft og business.Produsent: Kristin Steenfeldt-Foss Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The OYA podcast aims at strengthening the entrepreneurial mindset to enable young entrepreneurs identify and make the most of opportunities, overcome and learn from setbacks, and succeed in a variety of settings by listening to inspiring journeys of successful young African entrepreneurs.