The Cheating Culture
Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead

One of the core assumptions of capitalism is that human beings are basically selfishly motivated. This ignores the altruistic and cooperative aspects of human nature and emphasizes the competitive. As American culture has been taken over by an increasingly fundamentalist brand of capitalism, two thi......more

The author acknowledges the growing inequality of the aughts but it is merely background for another morality tale about the decline of morals, unlike our forefathers we have fallen into chicanery and depravity. It is a narrative schtick used since Cato the elder. Morals often are contingent on mate......more

This was my first audio book. I agree with the author's main arguement that increased competition through more free-market economics is driving more cheating. However, not sure that free-market is as evil as author believes. Most of the book is arguement by analogy which there are numerous examples.......more

This could have been much better. The author took a great premise, and some interesting research and beat it to death. It was also incredibly reductionist and anti-corporate. I would have been more interested to see the premise expanded beyond academia and the corporate world. There are so many thin......more

The book may have some great truth to it and is interesting, but the author could have gotten the point acrossed by cutting the book in half rather than re-using examples over and over and over.... It's apparent that the author is very cynical and the reading quite negative (naturally, given the sub......more