Susan Osman has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 7 authors, with an average listener rating of 2.5★ across 23 ratings. The most-rated is Narrative Economics.
Narrative Economics
Summary
From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times best-selling author Robert Shiller, a new way to think about how popular stories help drive economic events In a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power of viral stories to affect economies? In this groundbreaking book, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times best-selling author Robert Shiller offers a new way to think about the economy and economic change. Using a rich array of historical examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that affect individual and collective economic behavior - what he calls "narrative economics" - has the potential to vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises, recessions, depressions, and other major economic events. Spread through the public in the form of popular stories, ideas can go viral and move markets - whether it's the belief that tech stocks can only go up, that housing prices never fall, or that some firms are too big to fail. Whether true or false, stories like these - transmitted by word of mouth, by the news media, and increasingly by social media - drive the economy by driving our decisions about how and where to invest, how much to spend and save, and more. But despite the obvious importance of such stories, most economists have paid little attention to them. Narrative Economics sets out to change that by laying the foundation for a way of understanding how stories help propel economic events that have had led to war, mass unemployment, and increased inequality. The stories people tell - about economic confidence or panic, housing booms, the American dream, or Bitcoin - affect economic outcomes. Narrative Economics explains how we can begin to take these stories seriously. It may be Robert Shiller's most important book to date.
©2019 Robert J. Shiller (P)2019 Princeton University Press
The Psychology of Fashion
Summary
The Psychology of Fashion offers an insightful introduction to the exciting and dynamic world of fashion in relation to human behaviour, from how clothing can affect our cognitive processes to the way retail environments manipulate consumer behaviour. The book explores how fashion design can impact healthy body image, how psychology can inform a more sustainable perspective on the production and disposal of clothing and why we develop certain shopping behaviours. With fashion imagery ever present in the streets, press and media, The Psychology of Fashion shows how fashion and psychology can make a positive difference to our lives.
©2018 Carolyn Mair (P)2019 Taylor & Francis
Start-Ups, Pivots and Pop-Ups
Summary
Start-Ups, Pivots and Pop-Ups is a must-listen for anyone with a business idea and the desire to be successful. It gives the listener the skills and knowledge to survive in today's innovation and entrepreneurial-focused world. This audiobook is about starting a business. It's about putting your toe in the entrepreneurial water - perhaps, through doing a short term business gig or a pop-up business - and then seeing what happens. It shows you how to listen to the customer and work out why failures may happen, and when they do, you'll learn how to deal with them and create a new business that is robust and ready to grow. Start-Ups, Pivots and Pop-Ups shows you the best ways of starting, testing, and growing a business. It shares the stories, experiences, and insights of those who've done it and explains how to innovate, try, refine, and succeed. Even if your business idea struggles, you'll find out how to learn so much that you'll pivot your business, try again, and then win big time. You'll learn from a range of organizations including abnormal beauty company Deciem, Leon fast food, Triumph lingerie, New York fashion tech Nineteenth Amendment, Brew Dog beer, Cambridge Satchels, Allbirds, and the Cornish Seaweed Company.
©2019 Richard Hall, Rachel Bell (P)2019 Richard Hall, Rachel Bell
The Money Revolution
Summary
There's never been a shortage of advice on managing your money, clearing debt, being canny with your cash, and getting the best deals. But it can be hard work, and everyone seems to be saying something different.
What if you could easily cut through all the rhetoric and noise and everything could be made straightforward? In The Money Revolution, banking entrepreneur, and founder of award-winning Starling Bank, Anne Boden, shines a spotlight on how we save, spend, and invest our money. By adopting a few new behaviours, it's possible to transform your bank balance for the better.
The Money Revolution breaks through the traditional thinking about money and what you've always been told you should expect from financial institutions. Sharing the benefits of smart banking, fintech solutions, and the advantages of open banking, it covers a range of financial solutions, from savings and investments to pensions, bill payments and travel money. Find out everything you need to know to get the best out of your money every day.
©2019 Anne Boden (P)2019 Anne Boden
Great Minds and How to Grow Them
Summary
Great Minds and How to Grow Them is a handbook for parents that shows how they can grow the minds of their children and teenagers and guide them to success both at school and in life. The latest neurological and psychological research is proving that most children are capable of reaching high levels of performance that were previously associated only with the gifted and talented. Brains are malleable and IQ is not fixed, yet without parental engagement in their learning, many children don’t reach the levels of performance that are associated with academic success. Combining new knowledge with extensive research into how we learn, this book proves that by using simple, everyday techniques that are both rooted in research and accessible for parents, children can learn to learn more successfully.
©2018 Wendy Berliner and Deborah Eyre (P)2019 Taylor & Francis