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Audiobooks for the Risk Professional Taking a Summer Road Trip

June 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Lately I have been doing a lot of traveling between State College, PA and Washington, DC for meetings and such.  To pass the 3.5-hours minimum driving time each way, I, like many others listen to audiobooks on subjects that excite me.  The following is a list of titles for good audiobooks I listened to that are sure to educate, if not inspire, risk professionals.  Note that I purchased all these books from Audible.com via ITunes.

  • Freakonomics, by Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.  The essence of this book was that everything is governed by incentives.  But, as the author points out in his preface, there really is no coherent theme to the book; it is just a compilation of interesting

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