Economics

Utopia for Realists

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Rutger Bregman
• Narrated By Peter Noble
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We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party of the right or left is providing us with answers. So, too, does the time seem to be coming to an end when we looked to economists to help us define the qualities necessary to create a successful society. We need a new movement.

An Economic History of the World since 1400

• ORIGINAL (24 hrs and 29 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Donald J. Harreld

Most of us have a limited understanding of the powerful role economics has played in shaping human civilization. This makes economic history - the study of how civilizations structured their environments to provide food, shelter, and material goods - a vital lens through which to think about how we arrived at our present, globalized moment. Designed to fill a long-empty gap in how we think about modern history, these 48 lectures are a comprehensive journey through more than 600 years of economic history.

The Thank You Economy

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Gary Vaynerchuk
• Narrated By Gary Vaynerchuk
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The Thank You Economy is about something big, something greater than any single revolutionary platform. It isn't some abstract concept or wacky business strategy—it's real, and every one of us is doing business in it every day, whether we choose to recognize it or not. It's the way we communicate, the way we buy and sell, the way businesses and consumers interact online and offline.

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Naomi Klein
• Narrated By Liza Ross

We seem to have given up on any serious effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. Exposing the work of ideologues on the right who know the challenge this poses to the free market all too well, Naomi Klein also challenges the failing strategies of environmental groups. It's time to stop running from the full implications of the crisis and begin to embrace them.

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Narrated By David Chandler

Maverick thinker Nassim Nicholas Taleb had an illustrious career on Wall Street before turning his focus to his black swan theory. Not all swans are white, and not all events, no matter what the experts think, are predictable. Taleb shows that black swans, like 9/11, cannot be foreseen and have an immeasurable impact on the world.

Behavioral Economics: When Psychology and Economics Collide

• ORIGINAL (11 hrs and 58 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Scott Huettel

Behavioral economics is the study of decision making, and of the related themes of valuation, exchange, and interpersonal interactions. Using methods from psychology, sociology, neurology, and economics, behavioral economics sheds light one of the most fundamental activities of human life: the decision process. In 24 insightful lectures, you'll learn how behavioral economists look at decision making and explore a set of key principles that offer deep insight into how we evaluate information and integrate different factors to make decisions.

The End of Money: The Story of Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 58 mins)
• By New Scientist
• Narrated By Mark Elstob
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The End of Money is an essential introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution, which has been hailed as the greatest advancement since the invention of the Internet. Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering. These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true stories from the short history of cryptocurrencies - digital currencies conceived by computer hackers and cryptographers that represent a completely new sort of financial transaction.

Grunch of Giants

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 25 mins)
• By R. Buckminster Fuller
• Narrated By Andrew Heyl
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Here, Buckminster Fuller takes on the gigantic corporate megaliths that exert increasing control over every aspect of daily life. In the form of a modern allegory, he traces the evolution of these multinational giants from the post-World War II military-industrial complex to the current army of abstract legal entities known as the corporate world. GRUNCH stands for Gross Universal Cash Heist.

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs)
• By Philip A. Fisher
• Narrated By George Guidall

One of the most important works ever written on investment theory, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits lays out the fundamental principles of intelligent investing.

Thinking Like an Economist: A Guide to Rational Decision Making

• ORIGINAL (6 hrs and 10 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Randall Bartlett

Economic forces are everywhere around you. But that doesn't mean you need to passively accept whatever outcome those forces might press upon you. Instead, with these 12 fast-moving and crystal clear lectures, you can learn how to use a small handful of basic nuts-and-bolts principles to turn those same forces to your own advantage.

Wealth, Poverty, and Politics: An International Perspective

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Thomas Sowell
• Narrated By David Cochran Heath

In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in the country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth.

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Arun Sundararajan
• Narrated By Vikas Adam

In this book, Arun Sundararajan, an expert on the sharing economy, explains the transition to what he describes as "crowd-based capitalism" - a new way of organizing economic activity that may supplant the traditional corporate-centered model. As peer-to-peer commercial exchange blurs the lines between the personal and the professional, how will the economy, government regulation, what it means to have a job, and our social fabric be affected?

Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Dan Senor, Saul Singer
• Narrated By Sean Pratt

Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources - produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK?

The Industries of the Future

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Alec Ross
• Narrated By Alec Ross

Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next 10 years - for businesses, governments, and the global community - and how we can navigate them.

23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Ha-Joon Chang
• Narrated By Joe Barrett
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If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists-the apostles of the freemarket-have spun since the Age of Reagan.

Basic Economics, Fifth Edition: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

• ORIGINAL (23 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Thomas Sowell
• Narrated By Tom Weiner

In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives. Drawing on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history, Sowell explains basic economic principles for the general public in plain English.

Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 54 mins)
• By John Kay
• Narrated By Walter Dixon

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to secondary-market dealing in existing assets. Regulation has contributed more to the problems than the solutions.

America and the New Global Economy

• ORIGINAL (18 hrs and 49 mins)
• By The Great Courses, Timothy Taylor
• Narrated By Professor Timothy Taylor

Globalization continues to be a force in our economic climate. And the origins of this globalized economy, its effects on important contemporary concerns, and its future trends are just a few of the intriguing issues you explore in these 36 lectures. Go beyond the economy of the United States and examine the recent history of economies in other countries and regions. As you journey with Professor Taylor through the last 50 years of world economic history, you'll explore international perspectives on the new global economy and develop a richer understanding of our increasingly interconnected world.

Unexpected Economics

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 5 mins)
• By The Great Courses, Timothy Taylor
• Narrated By Professor Timothy Taylor

Why are we choosing to have fewer children, even as we put more time into raising each one? Why are we so often willing to follow the herd and the opinions of strangers when making important decisions, even when those decisions are deeply personal? Most surprising: Why are questions like these increasingly attracting the attention of economists?

Done: The Secret Deals That Are Changing Our World

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Jacques Peretti
• Narrated By Jacques Peretti

What if the way we understand our world is wrong? What if it isn't politicians and events that shape our lives but secret deals made by people you've never heard of? This book tells the story of the secret deals that are changing the world and revolutionising everything we do, including money, the food we eat, what we buy and the drugs we take to stay well. These deals never make the news: they are made high up in boardrooms, on golf courses and in luxury cars, each sealed by world-changing handshakes.

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Jessica Bruder
• Narrated By Karen White

From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or "workampers".

A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Muhammad Yunus
• Narrated By Dan Woren

In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations.

A World Made for Money: Economy, Geography, and the Way We Live Today

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Bret Wallach
• Narrated By Paul Dandridge
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A spirited and incisive survey of economic geography, A World Made for Money begins with the author stopped at a red light in Norman, Oklahoma. Observing the landscape of drugstores and banks, and for that matter the stoplight and roads themselves, Bret Wallach observes, "Everything I see has been built to make money" or, at the very least, to facilitate making money. This, he argues, is a global phenomenon that nonetheless has occurred only within the past hundred years or so.

United We Stand: Don't Tread on USA

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Jillion R. Rising
• Narrated By John Wriddle
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Jillion has carefully dissected the "divide and conquer" tactics used by what he refers to as the Umbrella of Power (central banking, large corporations, media, Wall Street, government, and lobbyists). And he speaks specifically to the groups they divide. Within this audiobook is a logical explanation aimed at millennials, boomers, African Americans, and immigrants regarding our coming together as one people and controlling the fate of America's future.

Minimalist: A Better Life with Less: Blissful Living, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (49 mins)
• By Anthony Wright
• Narrated By Bob D

You start to realize everything is getting more expensive by the day. Wouldn't it be nice to find a way to avoid unnecessary expenses? In our daily lives, we tend to spend money without thinking for a second, "was it worth it in the end?, "how many work hours did I have to exchange for this?" Every day life bombards and traps us into the loop of endless spending to feel happy and fulfilled ". The newest car, the best smart TV, the latest gadget, the African Special bean coffee with extra caffeine and a shot of... you get the idea.

Unleashing the Innovators: How Mature Companies Find New Life with Startups

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Jim Stengel, Tom Post
• Narrated By Jim Stengel
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Today's established companies must find new ways to reignite their entrepreneurial DNA and jump-start revenues - or risk losing their way. By working with startup companies, says Jim Stengel, renowned consultant to Fortune 500 companies and the former global marketing officer for Procter & Gamble, legacy companies can renew themselves: by acquiring new technology and creating new business lines, relearning the need for speed, sparking innovation, and learning from failures.

Blockchain: Ethereum and Security Technology Explained

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 38 mins)
• By Charles Jensen
• Narrated By Dave Wright

Another in-depth guide to ethereum and blockchain technology. A different angle...a different twist to the elaborate uses of blockchain technology you should know more about! Added to the previous books I've written, I felt inspired to increase your expertise in this particular area and share my knowledge with the world.

Accounting Instruction: Reference #300: Adjusting Entries & Financial Statement Creation

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Bob Steele CPA
• Narrated By Bob Steele CPA

This book covers the adjusting journal process of financial accounting and the creation of financial statements, the creation of financial statements being the end goal of financial accounting, the product that the financial accounting system is designed to produce. Financial statements are the primary tool decision-makers use when making financial decisions. Financial statements are the preferred format for financial data to be compiled.

Blockchain: Programming, Ethereum, and Cryptocurrency Guide

• UNABRIDGED (54 mins)
• By Charles Jensen
• Narrated By Dave Wright

A unique guide to aid you in the blockchain programming process. The more sophisticated specifics of blockchain programming will be discussed in this book. You will learn about things you might not have encountered yet and expand your knowledge about this popular way of using software and ethereum to achieve monetary and accuracy purposes.

Blockchain: Technology Guide to Bitcoin and Blockchain Programming 3 in 1

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Charles Jensen
• Narrated By Dave Wright

Three blockchain books in one. It can hardly get any better than that!

Blockchain: Understanding Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology Methods 2 in 1

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Charles Jensen
• Narrated By Dave Wright

A two-book combo about blockchain technology.

SuperHubs: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Sandra Navidi, Nouriel Roubini - foreword
• Narrated By Katherine Fenton
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An intimate glimpse into the world of the financial elite and their unique network of personal relationships. Featuring a foreword by Nouriel Roubini. SuperHubs is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the global financial system and the powerful personal networks through which it is run, at the centre of which sit the Elites - the SuperHubs. Combining an insider's knowledge with the principles of network science, Sandra Navidi offers a startling new perspective on how the financial system really operates.

Blockchain: Beginners Guide to Understanding the Revolutional Technology Behind Bitcoin!

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 25 mins)
• By Daniel Kilsby
• Narrated By Mark Rossman
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Are you ready to discover the secrets of blockchain technology? Would you like to learn what the blockchain is and how it can be used in the financial world, as well as in non-financial sectors of industry? If you answered "Yes!" then this is the book for you!

Neuroeconomics Fundamentals

• UNABRIDGED (44 mins)
• By IntroBooks
• Narrated By Andrea Giordani
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IntroBooks delivers up-to-the-minute information covering everything on a topic in less than one hour. Our books are written to give essential information in a straight-to-the-point format. We have cut out technical jargon, waffle, and unnecessary filler to ensure you get the essential information you need to achieve your goals with confidence.

US Corporate Tax System

• UNABRIDGED (47 mins)
• By IntroBooks
• Narrated By Andrea Giordani
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The corporate tax is essentially a flat rate tax; it is currently 46%. The rate was reduced from 52% to 48% by the 1964 tax cut, raised temporarily by 10% during the Vietnam War but was also reduced in 1978 by the tax act to the current level. The tax base for a nonfinancial corporation investing in fixed assets is derived by subtracting from gross sales the costs of input increases or when tax credits are allowed against calculated tax liabilities.

The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Mihir Desai
• Narrated By Mihir Desai
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Finance is shrouded in mystery for outsiders, while many insiders are uneasy with the disrepute of their profession. How can finance become more accessible and also recover its nobility? Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai takes up the cause of restoring humanity to finance. With deft wit, he draws upon a rich knowledge of literature, film, history, and philosophy to explain finance's inner workings.

Bitcoin: A Simple Introduction and a Concise History

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Eric Morse
• Narrated By Kevin Gisi
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Two essential bitcoin books in one bundle! This bundle includes Bitcoin: A Simple Introduction and Bitcoin: A Concise History.

Bitcoin: The Insider Guide to Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency, and Mining Bitcoin

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 23 mins)
• By Richard Ozer
• Narrated By Jon Turner
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Discover everything you need to know about the most popular cryptocurrency in the world. Leading the cryptocurrency industry in terms of transaction volume, bitcoin yields a seemingly infinite amount of untapped potential as both a digital currency, and even as a form of private investment. This book will teach you everything you need to know about bitcoin and will get you up to date on the latest uses and benefits of the blockchain.

Beyond Bitcoin: How to Reinvent the World with Your Own Currency

• UNABRIDGED (50 mins)
• By Adam Savage
• Narrated By Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
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You've heard of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies - but they're just the tip of the iceberg. We're about to enter a new era for money in which technology will let anyone create their own currency. Do you own a company? Start your own currency. Do you have a website? Create a currency for your visitors. How about paying people to go to school? All of our current economic models are about to change.

Open

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
• By David Price
• Narrated By Han Hills
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A collection of hactivists, hobbyists, forum-users, and maverick leaders are leading a quiet but unstoppable revolution. They are sharing everything they know, and turning knowledge into action in ways that were unimaginable even a decade ago. Driven by technology, and shaped by common values, going open has transformed the way we live. It's not so much a question of if our workplaces, schools, and colleges go open, but when.