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June 6, 2024

Universal Basic Income [Audiobook]

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Free Download Karl Widerquist, Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator), "Universal Basic Income (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)"
English | ASIN: B0D428P94J | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:04:00 | 167 MB
The growing movement for universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining attention from politics and the media with the audacious idea of a regular, unconditional cash grant for everyone as a right of citizenship. This volume in the Essential Knowledge series presents the first short, solid UBI introduction that is neither academic nor polemic. It takes a position in favor of UBI, but its primary goal remains the provision of essential knowledge by answering the fundamental questions about it: What is UBI? How does it work? What are the arguments for and against it? What is the evidence?
Karl Widerquist discusses how UBI functions, showing how it differs from other redistributional approaches. He summarizes the common arguments for and against UBI and presents the reasons for believing it is a tremendously important reform. The book briefly discusses the likely cost of UBI; options for paying for it; the existing evidence on the probable effects of UBI; and the history of UBI from its inception more than two hundred years ago to today. Now more than ever, conditions in much of the world are ripe for such enthusiasm to keep growing, and there are good reasons to believe that this current wave of support will eventually lead to the adoption of UBI in several countries around the world-making this volume an especially timely and necessary listen.

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June 5, 2024

Basic Economics A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, 5th Edition [Audiobook]

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Free Download Thomas Sowell, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator), "Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, 5th Edition"
English | ASIN: B0CQ3L3SVK | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~28:06:00 | 772 MB
In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives. Drawing on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history, Sowell explains basic economic principles for the general public in plain English.
Basic Economics, which has now been translated into six languages and has additional material online, remains true to its core principle: that the fundamental facts and principles of economics do not require jargon, graphs, or equations and can be learned in a relaxed and even enjoyable way.

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