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The Shareholder Value Myth

How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public

by Lynn Stout ...

An in-depth look at the trouble with shareholder value thinking and at better options for models of corporate purpose.Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to "maximize shareholder value." In this pathbreaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how ... Read more

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An in-depth look at the trouble with shareholder value thinking and at better options for models of corporate purpose.Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to "maximize shareholder value." In this pathbreaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how
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Familiar Whispers

Not Safe at Home, #1

by Lynn Stout, May Black ...

Series Book 1 - Not Safe at Home
It should have perished in the fire. Instead, she's being stalked by evil.Anna still suffers from the traumas of her childhood. She takes solace from fond memories of an imaginary friend who helped guard her mind from the horrors. But when a worried voice whispers increasingly persistent warnings in her head, she fears pain is set to return with a vengeance.Unnerved by dark threats to her own ... Read more

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It should have perished in the fire. Instead, she's being stalked by evil.Anna still suffers from the traumas of her childhood. She takes solace from fond memories of an imaginary friend who helped guard her mind from the horrors. But when a worried voice whispers increasingly persistent warnings in her head, she fears pain is set to return with a vengeance.Unnerved by dark threats to her own
... Read more
Citizen Capitalism

How A Universal Fund Can Provide Influence and Income To All

by Lynn Stout, Sergio Gramitto, Tamara Belinfanti ...

Corporations have a huge influence on the life of every citizen--this book offers a visionary but practical plan to give every citizen a say in how corporations are run while also gaining some supplemental income. It lays out a clear approach that uses the mechanisms of the private market to hold corporations accountable to the public.This would happen through the creation of what the authors call ... Read more

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Corporations have a huge influence on the life of every citizen--this book offers a visionary but practical plan to give every citizen a say in how corporations are run while also gaining some supplemental income. It lays out a clear approach that uses the mechanisms of the private market to hold corporations accountable to the public.This would happen through the creation of what the authors call
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Again and Again

Not Safe at Home, #3

by Lynn Stout ...

Series Book 3 - Not Safe at Home
Jody protects everyone. Catch a killer, defeat a demon, rescue a friend – completely in her wheelhouse.When she meets a young girl trapped in the cycle of a centuries old curse, she's ready to spring into action and drop everything to help. Until she discovers she is also in the crosshairs.Forced into introspection, she discovers the disturbing truth of her past lurking beyond the shadows. She ... Read more

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Jody protects everyone. Catch a killer, defeat a demon, rescue a friend – completely in her wheelhouse.When she meets a young girl trapped in the cycle of a centuries old curse, she's ready to spring into action and drop everything to help. Until she discovers she is also in the crosshairs.Forced into introspection, she discovers the disturbing truth of her past lurking beyond the shadows. She
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Cultivating Conscience

How Good Laws Make Good People

by Lynn Stout ...

How the science of unselfish behavior can promote law, order, and prosperityContemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly—few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good ... Read more

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How the science of unselfish behavior can promote law, order, and prosperityContemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly—few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good
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The Shareholder Value Myth

How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public

by Lynn Stout ...

Narrated by Elaine Kellner ...

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3 hours 46 min

In this radical debunking of pervasive myths about how corporations and investors behave, UCLA professor and legal celebrity Lynn Stout shows how-contrary to entrenched belief-"shareholder primacy" is not mandated by corporate law and actually harms shareholders themselves. ... Read more

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In this radical debunking of pervasive myths about how corporations and investors behave, UCLA professor and legal celebrity Lynn Stout shows how-contrary to entrenched belief-"shareholder primacy" is not mandated by corporate law and actually harms shareholders themselves.
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What's Mine Is Yours

The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

by Rachel Botsman, Roo Rogers ...

Narrated by Kevin Foley ...

Unabridged

8 hours 12 min

The recent changes in our economic landscape have only exposed and intensified a phenomenon: an explosion in sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping. From enormous marketplaces such as eBay and Craigslist to emerging sectors such as peer-to-peer lending (Zopa), "swap trading" (Swaptree), and car sharing (Zipcar), Collaborative Consumption is disrupting outdated modes ... Read more

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The recent changes in our economic landscape have only exposed and intensified a phenomenon: an explosion in sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping. From enormous marketplaces such as eBay and Craigslist to emerging sectors such as peer-to-peer lending (Zopa), "swap trading" (Swaptree), and car sharing (Zipcar), Collaborative Consumption is disrupting outdated modes
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What Money Can't Buy

The Moral Limits of Markets

by Michael J. Sandel ...

In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society.Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our ... Read more

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In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society.Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our
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Nobody's Fool

Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It

by Daniel Simons, Christopher Chabris ...

From two New York Times-bestselling psychologists, “an engaging master class in how to foil purveyors of false promises” (Philip E. Tetlock, author of Superforecasting)From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims with deception. In Nobody’s Fool, psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher ... Read more

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From two New York Times-bestselling psychologists, “an engaging master class in how to foil purveyors of false promises” (Philip E. Tetlock, author of Superforecasting)From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims with deception. In Nobody’s Fool, psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher
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End Times

Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

by Peter Turchin ...

**“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” —Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsFrom the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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**“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” —Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsFrom the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for
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Same as Ever

A Guide to What Never Changes

by Morgan Housel ...

**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the author of the international blockbuster, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY, a powerful new tool to unlock one of life’s most challenging puzzles.**Every investment plan under the sun is, at best, an informed speculation of what may happen in the future, based on a systematic extrapolation from the known past.Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to ... Read more

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**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the author of the international blockbuster, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY, a powerful new tool to unlock one of life’s most challenging puzzles.**Every investment plan under the sun is, at best, an informed speculation of what may happen in the future, based on a systematic extrapolation from the known past.Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to
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The Tyranny of Merit

What's Become of the Common Good?

by Michael J. Sandel ...

A Times Literary Supplement’s Book of the Year 2020A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?These are dangerous tim... ... Read more

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A Times Literary Supplement’s Book of the Year 2020A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?These are dangerous tim...
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