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Freedom From the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand Audiobook, by Mike Konczal Play Audiobook Sample

Freedom From the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand Audiobook

Freedom From the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand Audiobook, by Mike Konczal Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Mike Lenz Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705274347

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

11

Longest Chapter Length:

56:14 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06:21 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

39:39 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Health insurance, student loan debt, retirement savings, child care, work-life balance, access to home ownership—these are the issues driving America's current political debates. And they are all linked, as this brilliant and timely book reveals, by a single question: should we allow the free market to determine our lives?

In the tradition of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, noted economic commentator Mike Konczal answers this question with a resounding no. Freedom from the Market blends passionate political argument and a bold new take on American history to reveal that, from the earliest days of the republic, Americans have defined freedom as what we keep free from the control of the market. With chapters on the history of Homestead Act and land ownership, the eight-hour work day and free time, social insurance and Social Security, World War II day cares, Medicare and desegregation, free public colleges, intellectual property, and the public corporation, Konczal shows how citizens have fought to ensure that everyone has access to the conditions that make us free.

At a time when millions of Americans—and more and more politicians—are questioning the unregulated free market as un-American, Freedom from the Market offers a new narrative, and new intellectual ammunition, for the fight that lies ahead.

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