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Value(s)
- An Economist’s Guide to Everything That Matters
- Narrated by: Mark Carney
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Horrified by the current financial crisis? Want to learn how we might get out of it?
This is a pivotal moment in our economy. With the markets in free-fall, financial challenges are growing for us all. A winter of inflation and spiralling energy costs looms. But it doesn’t have to be this way. As former Governor for the Bank of England Mark Carney said to the BBC: ‘The message from the financial markets is there’s a limit to unfunded spending and unfunded tax cuts in this environment.’
His book is essential listening for today’s economic crisis and provides answers to your questions as well as solutions for the future.
In Value(s), Carney offers a roadmap out of this chaos and towards a better, fairer society. This moment could be an opportunity for change, for overhaul. We cannot go on as we have, something must change. Drawing on a truly international perspective, this book offers a blueprint for how we can channel the dynamism of the market to transform intractable global problems into opportunities. And in so doing build a better world for all.
Listen as one of the great global thinkers of our time examines how what we value has become misaligned and how we can rethink and rebuild before it is too late.
Critic reviews
"A radical book that speaks out accessibly as to how we get everyone involved in solving our problems. And this is what we need: 50 Shades of People for 50 Shades of Green." (Bono)
"Mark Carney’s indispensable new book asks how we can go from knowing the price of everything to understanding its true value. From the Great Financial Crisis to climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, this is the essential handbook for 21st-century leaders, policymakers and everyone who wants to build a fair and sustainable world." (Christine Lagarde)
"A road map to a fairer and more responsible, resilient world. Carney offers trenchant insights into our relationship with money and status, imagination and responsibility critical to our world’s future. What do we invest in - profit or human potential? This book is irradiated with the inspiring and critical conviction that money can be transformed into a tool of collective good." (Antony Gormley)
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- UK buyer
- 11-09-21
A must listen if you want to understand the globalist perspective
From his ivory tower, Carney sets out a potted history of economics, regurgitates management seminars on ‘purpose’, and talks about his place in history. There is a chapter on humility, which was sorely lacking throughout the epic. As we head to the ‘G-0’ world he believes addressing climate change is the greatest economic opportunity of our time. I am sure he will do well out of it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-09-21
What a book!!!
This is the best book I’ve read and can’t wait to read it again.It is accessible, focused yet comprehensive of its chosen topic.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-10-21
Masterclass in the big issues that matter now.
I wasn't sure whether I'd get through this but I'm glad I was drawn in more and more as it progressed. It is a remarkable & panoramic tour by an informed, involved & wise tour guide of the societal, environmental, economic & financial issues that we must grapple with and solve.
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- Calli
- 29-10-21
Excellent
Mark Carney has an excellent command of the English language and exceptional knowledge about economics. I liked his use of academic references to make his points. He gave a lot of value based solutions to solve future problems.
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- Ben Woods
- 31-03-21
Refreshing...
....that an establishment figure of such standing & credibility talks so eloquently about the global challenges our political mainstream is too afraid to address.
only negative comment....the reading performance isn't great.
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- Michael I Wilson
- 22-04-21
Detailed and personal view
An sobering view with a bit of uplift of a big part of our shared modern culture. Great to have a narrative to go along with recently unfurling of initiatives in the financial sector. A compelling need for urgency and pace in these matters permeates the pages of this book. Recommended.
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- Graffico
- 30-03-21
Definitely not a failed 2nd Tier Banker
Marks insight in this book is absolutely fantastic he covers a-lot of concepts which will be discussed at the upcoming Davos 2021/22 summit finance is changing and this book will help give you an idea of how the new and coming technologies will change the way we live as well as how we derive Value in this new era.
My only point of disagreement was on Bitcoin other than that he covers a-lot of very interesting topics and discusses how things will be rapidly changing I strongly agree with him on how this industrial revolution will be bigger than the previous ones and will affect more livelihoods.
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- ---Iain---
- 02-08-22
So good I bought a physical copy
a very insightful and inspiring view of what is possible for a unique perspective
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- ANDREW BOOTH
- 21-01-24
Thé range of experience and expertise
A must read for all. A re-evaluation of values and an explanation of what is important about life as opposed to what we thought was important about life
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- papapownall
- 05-04-21
Values are the basis of value
Former Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney has written this long book (20 hours plus) in which he reflects on how market economies become market societies. Aware that markets are fundamentally a human construct he ponders whether it is possible to turn markets back into humanity the same way that grappa can be turned back into wine. He considers his time at the Bank of England (and prior role at the Bank of Canada) as fleeting visits to something that is permanent and ever lasting and ponders the fact that there have been a couple of hundred people in the role prior to his tenure, most of whom are long forgotten. Few, however, will have shepherded the Old Lady of Theadneedle Street through such challenging times.
Mr Carney considers that the three largest challenges facing the financial world at the moment are Credit, COVID and Climate change. Although a force for the good he sees markets as social concepts that need social capital and is scathing of crypto currencies that lack the human element in their development. Mr Carney does not believe however that the markets can solve everything and, to him, the four scariest words in the English language are "this time it's different".
There undoubtedly some fascinating and original thinking in this book and I was genuinely interested in the section on purposefully based companies being more successful, I could, however, have done with a little less on the long section on the history of banking and the chapter on corporate governance both of which were unnecessary and have been done better by others. Mark Carney will be one of the few Bank of England former governors who will be remembered. And for the right reasons.
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