OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY by Louis D. Brandeis - FULL Audio Book | Money, Wealth, Business, Politics

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Other People's Money by Louis D. Brandeis - FULL Audio Book | Money, Wealth, Business, Politics - Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis published as a book in 1914. The book attacked the use of investment funds to promote the consolidation of various industries under the control of a small number of corporations, which Brandeis alleged were working in concert to prevent competition. Brandeis harshly criticized investment bankers who controlled large amounts of money deposited in their banks by middle-class people. The heads of these banks, Brandeis pointed out, routinely sat on the boards of railroad companies and large industrial manufacturers of various products, and routinely directed the resources of their banks to promote the interests of their own companies. These companies, in turn, sought to maintain control of their industries by crushing small businesses and stamping out innovators who developed better products to compete against them. Brandeis supported his contentions with a discussion of the actual dollar amounts -- in millions of dollars -- controlled by specific banks, industries, and industrialists such as J. P. Morgan, noting that these interests had recently acquired a far larger proportion of American wealth than corporate entities had ever had before. He extensively cited testimony from a Congressional investigation performed by the Pujo Committee, named after Louisiana Representative Arsène Pujo, into self-serving and monopolistic business dealing. The book received great publicity at the time, and was widely lauded by legal academics. Attention to the book was amplified by Brandeis' nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1916.(Summary by Wikipedia) - SUBSCRIBE to Greatest Audio Books: http://www.youtube.com/GreatestAudioBooks - Become a FRIEND: Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/GreatestAudioBooks Google+: - READ along by clicking (CC) for Closed Caption Transcript! - LISTEN to the entire audiobook for free! Chapter listing and length: 01 - Chapter 1 Our Financial Oligarchy -- 00:34:22 Read by Andy Minter 02 - How The Combiners Combine -- 00:32:58 Read by Richard Kilmer 03 - Interlocking Directorates -- 00:22:25 Read by Kathleen Nelson 04 - Serve One Master Only! -- 00:34:52 Read by John Kooz 05 - What Publicity Can Do -- 00:24:46 Read by John Kooz 06 - Where The Banker Is Superfluous -- 00:35:18 Read by John Kooz 07 - Big Men and Little Businesses -- 00:39:57 Read by John Kooz 08 - A Curse OF Bigness -- 00:42:15 Read by Richard Kilmer 09 - The Failure Of Banker Management -- 00:16:20 Read by TriciaG 10 - The Inefficiency of the Oligarchy -- 00:33:01 Read by Kathleen Nelson Total running time: 5:16:14 In addition to the readers, this audio book was produced by: Book Coordinator: Richard Kilmer Dedicated Proof-Listener: Sharon Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Barry Eads This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer visit librivox.org. This video: Copyright 2013. Greatest Audio Books. All Rights Reserved.