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The Road to Freedom

Economics and the Good Society

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The Road to Freedom

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
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Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here?

In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America's current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. These movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.

As an economic advisor to presidents and as chief economist at the World Bank, Stiglitz has witnessed these profound changes firsthand. As he argues, the failures follow from the elites' unshakeable dedication to "the neoliberal experiment."

The Road to Freedom breaks new ground, showing how economics reframes how to think about freedom and the role of the state in a twenty-first century society. Stiglitz explains a deeper, more humane way to assess freedoms-one that considers what to do when one person's freedom conflicts with another's.

©2024 Joseph E. Stiglitz (P)2024 Tantor Political Science Politics & Government Freedom & Security Economic Inequality Liberalism Capitalism Economics Freedom Economic disparity Taxation Socialism
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Thank you! I really enjoyed hearing about the existence of other political systems that are not so extremist and it shaped my world view to the point that it went to a different degree. It doesn’t hurt that this is told by a Nobel prize winner, this kept my ears glued to the speaker.

The story was refreshing

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more or less tells to your face how Fredrick Hayek and the neoliberals spread lies which is a good thing.

should have the sub titled "Hayek had his head up his ass"

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Stiglitz has offered a clear treatise on how our economic system that has dominated world economics for over 70 years has delivered a system where wealth and the power it delivers has damaged our society, our democracy, and our sense of right and wrong to such a degree that some change is needed before we fall into outright fascism. Our tolerance of inequity, and the grievances that it creates have been distorted by media, political perspectives, and political funding to the advantage of the wealthy and powerful to the detriment of less advantaged even those who might be considered privileged but to a lesser degree.

Best book on politics and power ever

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Unfortunately, it sounds like the book is narrated by a very bad version of chatgpt. The narrator does not pause at commas or stop at fullstops.
The overall message is okay but the narration ruins an otherwise good book, I might have to buy a paperback instead.

The narration is horrible

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Bottom line is that these are either truths people need to know about economics and capitalist society, especially in the USA. unfortunately some of the authors examples are weak and won't hold up to many skeptical readers.

ex. getting a vaccine should be mandatory because your freedom to choose takes away someone else's freedom to live. (This simply isn't true, and it discounts the very valid (and invalid) reasons people would be hesitant or opposed to getting a brand new vaccine that was rushed through for approval.

Oddly some of these examples have the same over simplified reasoning that lead to the rise of neo-liberalism in the first place.

once you get over the stupid examples and pay attention to the actual concepts, you'll see progressive capitalism is more a matter of common sense than something radical.

The truth put delicately

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