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Abundance
- How We Build a Better Future
- By: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
- Narrated by: Derek Thompson, Ezra Klein
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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Decades of slashing immigration, off-shoring manufacture, preventing house-building and stalling ambitious infrastructure projects like high-speed rail means America has a shortage of workers, houses, innovative products and climate-change solutions. It's a story repeated across the Western World. To progress on the greatest challenges of our time, from housing to climate change, healthcare to infrastructure, progressives need a vision of abundance, and the ability and willingness to enact transformative strategies.
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Thoughtful reflection on 24
- By Amy W Saha on 27-06-2025
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Abundance
- How We Build a Better Future
- Narrated by: Derek Thompson, Ezra Klein
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2025
- Language: English
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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
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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. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
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The main ideas are interesting but....
- By steve on 17-05-2018
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-10-2017
- Language: English
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Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
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Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
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some interesting bits but too long and opinionated
- By Reuben Schwarz on 01-11-2018
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Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 15-09-2015
- Language: English
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Apple in China
- The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
- By: Patrick McGee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Apple isn’t just a brand; it’s the world’s most valuable company and creator of the 21st century’s defining product. The iPhone has revolutionized the way we live, work and connect. But Apple is now a victim of its own success, caught in the middle of a new Cold War between two superpowers. Investigative journalist Patrick McGee draws on 200 interviews with former Apple executives and engineers to reveal how Cupertino’s choice to anchor its supply chain in China has increasingly made it vulnerable to the regime’s whims.
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What an insightful book! Had no idea about the depth and breadth of Apple’s involvement in China
- By R Singh on 23-06-2025
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Apple in China
- The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2025
- Language: English
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The Big Print
- What Happened to America and How Sound Money Will Fix It
- By: Lawrence Lepard
- Narrated by: Walker America
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Most Americans — and people worldwide — understand that despite our remarkable technological advances, something is deeply wrong with the direction of our country and world. There are a variety of causes but Mr. Lepard believes, and wrote this book because, too many are missing the one, principal underlying cause: The Money Is Broken.
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how to convert a normie
- By Anonymous User on 19-04-2025
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The Big Print
- What Happened to America and How Sound Money Will Fix It
- Narrated by: Walker America
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-03-2025
- Language: English
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Power Failure
- The Rise and Fall of General Electric
- By: William D. Cohan
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 28 hrs and 17 mins
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Perhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing storied leaders and almost every product imaginable, GE built a cult of leadership success that hid cracks in its foundation. In this masterful history, William D. Cohan, one of America's most eminent financial journalists, argues that GE's legacy is both a paragon and a cautionary tale through which to understand American business.
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Interesting story
- By Nathan Kameta on 31-10-2023
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Power Failure
- The Rise and Fall of General Electric
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 28 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-11-2022
- Language: English
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The Shock Doctrine
- The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
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Around the world there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos, exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Exposing these global profiteers, Naomi Klein discovered information and connections that shocked even her about how comprehensively the shock doctors' beliefs now dominate our world - and how this domination has been achieved. Raking in billions out of the tsunami, plundering Russia, exploiting Iraq - this is the chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed.
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Love Naomi Klein
- By Anonymous User on 23-08-2020
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The Shock Doctrine
- The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-11-2018
- Language: English
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Material World
- A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
- By: Ed Conway
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium. The struggle for these tiny, magical materials has razed empires, demolished civilizations, fed our greed and our ingenuity for thousands of years. But the story is not over. We are often told we now live in a weightless world of information but in fact we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. And it's getting worse. To make one bar of gold, we now have to dig 5,000 tons of earth. For every tonne of fossil fuels, we extract six tonnes of other materials - from sand to stone to wood to metal.
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Fascinating and Frightening!
- By Panda on 26-11-2024
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Material World
- A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 15-06-2023
- Language: English
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- By: Zachary D. Carter
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
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At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history. Swept away from his placid home at Cambridge University by the currents of the conflict, Keynes found himself thrust into the halls of European treasuries to arrange emergency loans and packed off to America to negotiate the terms of economic combat.
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Fascinating and epic.
- By Bruce Joy on 18-02-2024
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-05-2020
- Language: English
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Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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The legendary investor and bestselling author shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. This template allowed his firm, Bridgewater Associates, to anticipate 2008’s events and navigate them well while others struggled badly. As he explained in his international bestseller Principles, Ray Dalio believes that almost everything happens over and over again through time, so that by studying patterns one can understand the cause-effect relationships behind events and develop principles for dealing with them well.
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Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 06-12-2022
- Language: English
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
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Single minded attempt to prove a point.
- By steve on 27-08-2018
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 20-03-2012
- Language: English
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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Award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People’s Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports. Unfolding with great narrative sweep, this riveting, richly detailed chronicle recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers celebrate as an economic miracle.
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An engaging jaunt through China's economic rise
- By Naoise McDonagh on 21-10-2023
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-07-2023
- Language: English
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This Time Is Different
- Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
- By: Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing - and recovering -their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different" - claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. This book proves that premise wrong.
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Had potential
- By Mike on 19-07-2023
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This Time Is Different
- Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 09-11-2009
- Language: English
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The Square and the Tower
- Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
- By: Niall Ferguson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
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What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From the global best-selling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of looking at the world. Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks-leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati?
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Interesting analysis, but quit with the accents already!
- By Pierz Newton-John on 12-11-2017
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The Square and the Tower
- Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-10-2017
- Language: English
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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes
- The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
- By: Raoul McLaughlin
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran). It explores Roman dealings with the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan) and laid claim to the Indus Kingdoms. Further chapters examine the development of Palmyra as a leading caravan city on the edge of Roman Syria and consider trade ventures through the Tarim territories that led Roman merchants to Han China.
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Brilliant
- By Deirdre E Siegel on 19-07-2023
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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes
- The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 18-09-2019
- Language: English
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An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought
- By: Murray N. Rothbard
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 55 hrs and 29 mins
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The appearance of the famous (and massive) volumes of Rothbard's Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought in a new edition is cause for great celebration. Every paragraph bursts with intellectual energy and the author's fiery passion to tell the listener the remarkable story of economics. Many reviewers have remarked that Rothbard's accomplishment seems superhuman. He seems to have read everything. His originality is overwhelming. His passion for liberty and integrity in science is evident.
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An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 55 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-11-2021
- Language: English
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The Invisible Doctrine
- The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)
- By: George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; even the planet we inhabit – the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name. It seems unavoidable, like a natural law. But trace it back to its roots, and we discover that it is neither inevitable nor immutable. It was conceived, propagated, and then concealed by the powerful few. It is time to bring it into the light - and, in doing so, to find an alternative worth fighting for.
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A challenge to the existing economic approach
- By Anonymous User on 04-03-2025
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The Invisible Doctrine
- The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2024
- Language: English
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism
- A Warning to the Global Middle Class
- By: Joel Kotkin
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last 70 years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times.
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Cultural extinction through ignorance/apathy.
- By merlin on 31-01-2021
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism
- A Warning to the Global Middle Class
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 01-12-2020
- Language: English
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Seapower States
- Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
- By: Andrew Lambert
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge - winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal - turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size. Lambert demonstrates how creating maritime identities made these states more dynamic, open, and inclusive than their lumbering continental rivals. Only when they forgot this aspect of their identity did these nations begin to decline.
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Fascinating but let down by the narration.
- By Amazon Customer on 28-06-2020
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Seapower States
- Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 27-11-2018
- Language: English
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Deficit
- How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World
- By: Emma Holten
- Narrated by: Emma Holten
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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In 2020, Emma Holten read an article stating that women were a net ‘deficit’ to society. Women apparently took more than they gave: they took more parental leave, frequently worked part-time, and typically worked lower paying jobs in the public sector. How did we get here? How are the contributions of half the population seen as a loss? In Deficit, Emma Holten traces how economic thinkers – from the Enlightenment onwards – created a value framework that left out ‘women’s work’ and acts of care.
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Deficit
- How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World
- Narrated by: Emma Holten
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2025
- Language: English
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