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Ezra Thorne Audiobooks

The Myth and Meaning of the Hundred Monkeys: how ideas spread, and who benefits

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MindPlay: The Psychology of Everyday Power · 1 book

Who is Ezra Thorne?

Scepticism is announced in the first three words. The Myth and Meaning of the Hundred Monkeys takes a familiar story about ideas spreading through a population and asks what is genuinely being claimed by the people who keep repeating it.

The shelving is the revealing part. Our catalogue files the book with money and finance and with politics and society, which suggests Ezra Thorne is less interested in the anecdote itself than in the uses it is put to: in boardrooms, in campaigns, and anywhere a convenient theory of influence is required at short notice.

Ezra Thorne in audiobooks

Michael Bridges narrates a compact three hours and thirty-one minutes, and the title carries the MindPlay: The Psychology of Everyday Power banner, which gathers work on influence and persuasion in ordinary life. That framing tells you the register: applied psychology pitched at the general listener rather than at the seminar room.

No ratings have gathered yet, this being a new arrival, so it is worth going in with your own scepticism intact, which is arguably the whole point of the exercise. Browse what is listed below and judge for yourself.