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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance25
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Story25
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....
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The main ideas are interesting but....
- By steve on 17-05-2018
By: Walter Scheidel
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- By: Noam Chomsky, Peter Hutchinson - Editor, Kelly Nyks - Editor, and others
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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Story27
Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality....
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Brilliant ! An excellent read !
- By Jeremy Hall on 25-10-2017
By: Noam Chomsky, and others
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The Stellenbosch Mafia
- Inside the Billionaire's Club
- By: Pieter du Toit
- Narrated by: Dylan Oosthuizen
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here reside some of South Africa’s wealthiest individuals: all male, all Afrikaans - and all stinking rich....
By: Pieter du Toit
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Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto
- By: Karl Marx, Frederich Engels
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 109 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance0
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This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto....
By: Karl Marx, and others
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Progress and Poverty
- The Economic Classic with a New Foreword
- By: Henry George, Ayrton Parham - foreword
- Narrated by: Eli Snuggs
- Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Story2
Capitalism has blessed the world with wealth and technological miracles. It has also cursed it with urban slums, powerless workers, and the vicious boom-and-bust economy. If only there were some way to fix the problems of capitalism and keep all its benefits....
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Anonymous on 22-04-2023
By: Henry George, and others
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I Hate the Ivy League
- Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance61
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Story61
From Malcolm Gladwell’s hit podcast Revisionist History comes a compendium about one of his greatest obsessions: education....
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its a pod cast not a book
- By stacey on 09-03-2023
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance25
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Story25
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....
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The main ideas are interesting but....
- By steve on 17-05-2018
By: Walter Scheidel
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- By: Noam Chomsky, Peter Hutchinson - Editor, Kelly Nyks - Editor, and others
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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Story27
Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality....
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Brilliant ! An excellent read !
- By Jeremy Hall on 25-10-2017
By: Noam Chomsky, and others
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The Stellenbosch Mafia
- Inside the Billionaire's Club
- By: Pieter du Toit
- Narrated by: Dylan Oosthuizen
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here reside some of South Africa’s wealthiest individuals: all male, all Afrikaans - and all stinking rich....
By: Pieter du Toit
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Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto
- By: Karl Marx, Frederich Engels
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 109 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance0
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Story0
This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto....
By: Karl Marx, and others
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Progress and Poverty
- The Economic Classic with a New Foreword
- By: Henry George, Ayrton Parham - foreword
- Narrated by: Eli Snuggs
- Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Story2
Capitalism has blessed the world with wealth and technological miracles. It has also cursed it with urban slums, powerless workers, and the vicious boom-and-bust economy. If only there were some way to fix the problems of capitalism and keep all its benefits....
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Anonymous on 22-04-2023
By: Henry George, and others
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I Hate the Ivy League
- Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance61
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Story61
From Malcolm Gladwell’s hit podcast Revisionist History comes a compendium about one of his greatest obsessions: education....
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its a pod cast not a book
- By stacey on 09-03-2023
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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Once Were Warriors
- By: Alan Duff
- Narrated by: Jay Laga'aia
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance67
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Story67
Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest....
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Sad and beautiful
- By Farzin Golzar on 24-02-2022
By: Alan Duff
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Who Gets to Be Smart
- By: Bri Lee
- Narrated by: Bri Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall228
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Performance190
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Story189
In 2018, Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian was named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered....
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Enjoyable but thick with internal conflict, irony and prejudice
- By Jae on 05-08-2021
By: Bri Lee
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Imagination
- A Manifesto
- By: Ruha Benjamin
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Imagination: A Manifesto offers visionary examples and tactics to push beyond the constraints of what we think, and are told, is possible. This book is for anyone who is ready to take to heart Toni Morrison's instruction: "Dream a little before you think."
By: Ruha Benjamin
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The Immoral Majority
- Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power Over Christian Values
- By: Ben Howe
- Narrated by: Marc William
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
The Immoral Majority has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...
By: Ben Howe
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Poor
- By: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance38
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Story38
Brought to you by Penguin. 'We love a rags-to-riches story, and we love to see someone triumph through sheer determination. But the story is rarely that simple. My story isn't, anyway.' As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making...
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Thought provoking, challenging, inspiring
- By Fiona Jane Harris on 02-07-2023
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Grunch of Giants
- By: R. Buckminster Fuller
- Narrated by: Andrew Heyl
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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With the appearance of Grunch of Giants, R. Buckminster Fuller consummates his literary canon, his panoramic lifetime survey of all aspects of the responsibility of human beings for their own destiny.
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Reality
- By Tim Samuels on 12-04-2025
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The Code of Capital
- How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
- By: Katharina Pistor
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance4
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Story4
Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? Find out....
By: Katharina Pistor
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Not Quite White in the Head
- Personal Essays
- By: Melissa Lucashenko
- Narrated by: Melissa Lucashenko
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Melissa Lucashenko is one of Australia's most admired and awarded novelists. She is renowned for writing about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead.
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Progress and Poverty
- By: Henry George
- Narrated by: Jason Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Progress and Poverty by Henry George explores the paradox of increasing inequality in periods of economic growth. George proposes that land...
By: Henry George
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Hillbilly-Elegie
- Die Geschichte meiner Familie und einer Gesellschaft in der Krise
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: Dominic Kolb
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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1 "New York Times"-Bestseller und "Spiegel"- Bestseller. Der heutige amerikanische Vizepräsident J. D. Vance erzählt in diesem erschütternden und von der Presse hochgelobten internationalen Bestseller die Geschichte seiner Familie.
By: J. D. Vance
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The Price of Inequality
- How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
- By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance6
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The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable....
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Eye opening
- By Daryoush Zand on 13-07-2023
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These are the Plunderers
- How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
- By: Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious world of private equity in this “masterpiece of investigative journalism” (Christopher...
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A must read!
- By Anonymous on 06-05-2023
By: Gretchen Morgenson, and others
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We Have Never Been Woke
- The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
- By: Musa al-Gharbi
- Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively.
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Wake up for those who style themselves as left or progressive
- By Michael Patterson on 13-07-2025
By: Musa al-Gharbi
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Ride the Tiger
- A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
- By: Julius Evola, Joscelyn Godwin - translator, Constance Fontana - translator
- Narrated by: Andy Rick
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Julius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age Reveals how to transform...
By: Julius Evola, and others
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Very Important People
- Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
- By: Ashley Mears
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance7
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A sociologist and former fashion model takes listeners inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men....
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A great way into a world I never knew existed
- By Hai on 20-02-2025
By: Ashley Mears
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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- By: Kathryn Paige Harden
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance13
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In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....
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A good book on genetics and social inequality
- By aroyi48 on 22-10-2021
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Selling the Dream
- The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
- By: Jane Marie
- Narrated by: Jane Marie
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class. We’ve all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but...
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Excellent Exposé
- By Kathryn on 27-03-2024
By: Jane Marie
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A People's Guide to Capitalism
- An Introduction to Marxist Economics
- By: Hadas Thier
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Presenting a lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%....
By: Hadas Thier
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Little Bosses Everywhere
- How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
- By: Bridget Read
- Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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A “gripping” (The Washington Post) work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy that has remade American society. “Reads like a thriller . . . masterfully illuminates the...
By: Bridget Read
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Quarterly Essay 83: Top Blokes
- The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
- By: Lech Blaine
- Narrated by: Nick John
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall192
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Performance164
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Story164
In this perceptive and often hilarious essay, Lech Blaine dissects some top blokes, with particular focus on Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese, but stretching back to Bob Hawke and Kerry Packer....
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brilliant
- By Isabella on 29-11-2021
By: Lech Blaine
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Privilege
- The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School
- By: Shamus Rahman Khan
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons....
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As Gods Among Men
- A History of the Rich in the West
- By: Guido Alfani
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Alfani argues that the position of the rich and super-rich in Western society has always been intrinsically fragile; their very presence has inspired social unease. In the Middle Ages, an excessive accumulation of wealth was considered sinful; the rich were expected not to appear to be wealthy....
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Definitive Text on the wealthy
- By Anonymous on 26-05-2024
By: Guido Alfani
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Class
- A Memoir
- By: Stephanie Land
- Narrated by: Stephanie Land
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, a “raw and inspiring” (People) memoir...
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Brave, raw and honest.
- By Anonymous on 06-01-2024
By: Stephanie Land
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America: The Farewell Tour
- By: Chris Hedges
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance51
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Story50
Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and...
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Unfortunately for us, Chris Hedges is right.
- By Anonymous on 26-09-2018
By: Chris Hedges