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The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work [Audiobook]
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The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B08WJLGHS6 | 2021 | 10 hours and 58 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Jan Eeckhout
Narrator: Zeb Soanes
In an era of technological progress and easy communication, it might seem reasonable to assume that the world’s working people have never had it so good. But wages are stagnant and prices are rising, so that everything from a bottle of beer to a prosthetic hip costs more. Economist Jan Eeckhout shows how this is due to a small number of companies exploiting an unbridled rise in market power - the ability to set prices higher than they could in a properly functioning competitive marketplace. Drawing on his own groundbreaking research and telling the stories of common workers throughout, he demonstrates how market power has suffocated the world of work, and how, without better mechanisms to ensure competition, it could lead to disastrous market corrections and political turmoil.