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Wreckonomics Why It’s Time to End the War on Everything [Audiobook]


Free Download Wreckonomics: Why It’s Time to End the War on Everything (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNHBPMVC | 2023 | 10 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 298 MB
Author: Ruben Andersson, David Keen
Narrator: Colin Mace

The United States’ ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running "fight against migration" has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more dangerous routes. For its part, the war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand while fueling atrocities from Mexico to the Philippines. Why do such "failing" policies persist for so long? And why do politicians keep feeding the very crises they say they are combating? In Wreckonomics, Ruben Andersson and David Keen analyze why disastrous policies live on even when it has become apparent that they do not work. The perverse outcomes of the fights against terror, migration, and drugs are more than a blip or an anomaly.

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Wreckonomics Why It’s Time to End the War on Everything


Free Download Ruben Andersson, "Wreckonomics: Why It’s Time to End the War on Everything"
English | ISBN: 0197645925 | 2023 | 352 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The United States’ ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running "fight against migration" has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more dangerous routes. For its part, the war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand while fueling atrocities from Mexico to the Philippines. Why do such "failing" policies persist for so long? And why do politicians keep feeding the very crises they say they are combating?

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