Public Problems

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    • Essays in Public Policy, Volume 39
    • By: Milton Friedman
    • Narrated by: George Adams
    • Length: 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • The major social problems of the United States - deteriorating education, lawlessness and crime, homelessness, the collapse of family values, the crisis in medical care - have been produced by well-intended actions of government....

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    • Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
    • By: Tim Schwab
    • Narrated by: Tim Schwab
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • You know him as the founder of Microsoft; the philanthropic, kind-hearted billionaire who has donated endless funds to good causes around the world. But there's another side to Bill Gates....

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    • Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
    • By: Richard A. Clarke, R.P. Eddy
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the US economy, and possibly the fate of civilization....

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    • Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
    • By: Tim Schwab
    • Narrated by: Tim Schwab
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, The Bill Gates Problem shows how Bill Gates uses philanthropy to exercise enormous political power without accountability....

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    • Risk Management Strategies for a World of Wild Uncertainty
    • By: Hakan Jankensgård
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Renowned risk and finance expert Håkan Jankensgård delivers an extraordinary and startling discussion of how firms should navigate a world of uncertainty and unexpected events....

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    • How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
    • By: David Owen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent lightbulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about being green is wrong....

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    • Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324 ratings
    • The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day....

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    • How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Jason Karlawish
    • Narrated by: Jason Karlawish, Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Rich in science, history, and characters, The Problem of Alzheimer's takes us inside laboratories, patients' homes, caregivers’ support groups, progressive care communities, and Jason Karlawish's own practice at the Penn Memory Center....

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    • Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems
    • By: Mitchell Weiss
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • During his years as a public official, Mitchell Weiss was told that government can't do new things or solve tough challenges - it's too big and slow and bureaucratic. Sadly, this is what so many of us have come to believe....

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    • How Large-Scale Change Really Happens
    • By: Rajiv Shah
    • Narrated by: Rajiv Shah
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Rajiv J. Shah is no stranger to pulling off the impossible, from helping vaccinate 900 million children at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to a high-pressure race against the clock to stop the spread of Ebola....

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    • Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
    • By: Juliette Kayyem
    • Narrated by: Juliette Kayyem
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management....

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    • How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems
    • By: William D. Eggers, Donald F. Kettl
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Our government is in crisis, mired in bureaucracy and often unable to fix tough problems. This book provides an essential new model for transforming the system and getting things done....

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    • How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy
    • By: Scott E. Page
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think....

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    • By: Condoleezza Rice, Amy B. Zegart
    • Narrated by: Grace Angela Henry
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • The world is changing fast. Political risk - the probability that a political action could significantly impact a company's business - is affecting more businesses in more ways than ever before....

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    • By: Cass R. Sunstein
    • Narrated by: Peter Marinker
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it....

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    • Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
    • By: Dale Russakoff
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • Expert journalist Dale Russakoff delivers a story of high ideals and hubris, good intentions and greed, celebrity and street smarts - as reformers face off against entrenched unions....

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    • How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
    • By: Linda Yueh
    • Narrated by: Linda Yueh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Acclaimed economist and BBC broadcaster Linda Yueh profiles the great economic minds who focused on the big questions: growth, innovation, and the nature of markets....

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    • The Story of How an Unlikely Group of Radical Innovators Is Trying to Transform Our Health Care System
    • By: Travis Christofferson
    • Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Curable outlines the future of medicine, detailing brilliant examples of new health care systems that prove we can do better. It turns out we have more control over our health (and happiness) than we think....

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    • Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done
    • By: Charlie Baker, Steve Kadish
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Governor Charlie Baker, one of the most popular governors in the United States, with a reputation for getting things done, wants to put the service back into public service. Results is the much-needed implementation guide for anyone in public service....

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