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Empires of the Weak
- The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
- By: J.C. Sharman
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war from 1500 onward. Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans had no general military superiority in the early modern era. Sharman shows instead that European expansion is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy earned by default.
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Empires of the Weak
- The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 14-05-2019
- Language: English
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The Invention of Scarcity
- Malthus and the Margins of History (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
- By: Deborah Valenze
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus secured a leading role in modern political and economic thought. In this startling new interpretation, Deborah Valenze reveals how canonical readings of Malthus fail to acknowledge his narrow understanding of what constitutes food production.
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The Invention of Scarcity
- Malthus and the Margins of History (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 03-07-2023
- Language: English
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Shock Values
- Prices and Inflation in American Democracy
- By: Carola Binder
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping history of the United States' economy and politics, Shock Values reveals how the American state has been shaped by a massive, ever-evolving effort to insulate its economy from the real and perceived dangers of price fluctuations. Carola Binder narrates how the pains of rising and falling prices have brought lasting changes for every generation of Americans. And with each brush with price instability, the United States has been reinvented—not as a more perfect union, but as a reflection of its most recent failures.
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Shock Values
- Prices and Inflation in American Democracy
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 13-08-2024
- Language: English
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Accountability after Economic Crisis
- Retribution, Truth, or Acknowledgment?
- By: Iosif Kovras
- Narrated by: Kevin Kemp
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Accountability after Economic Crisis reconstructs the captivating story of how different nations responded to the 2008 economic crisis, one of the most challenging economic downturns in modern history. The book focuses on puzzling cross-country variations in policies of accountability.
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Accountability after Economic Crisis
- Retribution, Truth, or Acknowledgment?
- Narrated by: Kevin Kemp
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2025
- Language: English
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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich
- How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
- By: Deirdre N. McCloskey, Art Carden
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich draws in entertaining fashion on history, economics, literature, philosophy, and popular culture, from growth theory to The Simpsons. It is the perfect introduction for a broad audience to McCloskey's influential explanation of how we got rich.
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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich
- How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 14-09-2021
- Language: English
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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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 Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-09-2025
- Language: English
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Accounting for Slavery
- Masters and Management
- By: Caitlin Rosenthal
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of modern management generally looks to the factories of England and New England for its genesis. But after scouring through old accounting books, Caitlin Rosenthal discovered that Southern planter-capitalists practiced an early form of scientific management. They took meticulous notes, carefully recording daily profits and productivity, and subjected their slaves to experiments and incentive strategies comprised of rewards and brutal punishment.
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grotesque and intriguing
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Accounting for Slavery
- Masters and Management
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 16-08-2022
- Language: English
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Anti-Pluralism
- The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
- By: William A. Galston
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
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The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today's populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete policies or a threat to liberal democracy remains up for debate. To respond to today's crisis, good leaders must strive for inclusive economic growth while addressing social and cultural issues, including demographic anxiety, with frank attention.
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Anti-Pluralism
- The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 26-06-2018
- Language: English
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Navigation by Judgment
- Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work
- By: Dan Honig
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. Dan Honig argues that high-quality implementation of foreign aid programs often requires contextual information that cannot be seen by those in distant headquarters. Drawing on a novel database of over 14,000 discrete development projects, Honig concludes that aid agencies will often benefit from giving field agents the authority to use their own judgments to guide aid delivery.
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Navigation by Judgment
- Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2018
- Language: English
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Poverty
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Philip N. Jefferson
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us. He shows how a person's level of vulnerability to adverse changes in their life is very much dependent on the circumstances of their birth, including where their family lived, whether it was peacetime or wartime, whether they had access to clean water, and whether they are male or female.
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Poverty
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 13-11-2018
- Language: English
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Mellon vs. Churchill
- The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
- By: Jill Eicher
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrew Mellon, one of the most accomplished businessmen of his era, is almost unknown today. To this shy, diffident (but brilliant) man fell the daunting task of collecting the war debts from European governments still devastated by WWI and struggling to recover economically. Dealing with the US Congress and the heads of foreign governments on the world stage became one of the great adventures of his life. Mellon vs. Churchill presents Winston Churchill through a different lens, focusing on his service as Chancellor of the Exchequer when Great Britain was the largest debtor to the US.
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Mellon vs. Churchill
- The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 20-05-2025
- Language: English
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Labor’s Partisans
- Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today
- By: Samir Sonti - editor, Nelson Lichtenstein - editor
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne, Mirai Mirai
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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With over twenty-five contributions by some of the nation's most influential progressive voices, Labor's Partisans brings to life a history of labor that is of immediate relevance to our own times. Introduced and edited by leading labor historians Nelson Lichtenstein and Samir Sonti, this essential volume reveals the powerful currents and debates running through the labor movement, from the 1950s to today.
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Labor’s Partisans
- Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne, Mirai Mirai
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2025
- Language: English
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Histories of Racial Capitalism
- By: Destin Jenkins - editor, Justin Leroy - editor
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger history of capitalism—since the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade and the colonization of the Americas, capitalism, in both material and ideological senses, has been racial, deriving social and economic value from racial classification and stratification.
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Histories of Racial Capitalism
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2023
- Language: English
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American Default
- The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold
- By: Sebastian Edwards
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the US dollar in relation to gold, effectively annulling all debt contracts. American Default is the story of this forgotten chapter in America's history.
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American Default
- The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 18-07-2018
- Language: English
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Last Resort
- The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts
- By: Eric A. Posner
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair - and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, aren't we encouraging them to continue to act irresponsibly? Bailouts have happened throughout economic history and are unavoidable in any modern, market-based economy. And they're actually good. Contrary to popular belief, the financial system cannot operate properly unless the government stands ready to bail out banks and other firms.
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Last Resort
- The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 22-05-2018
- Language: English
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Why Superman Doesn't Take Over The World
- What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics
- By: J. Brian O'Roark
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Economics and comic books seem to be a world apart. But in the hands of economics professor and comic hero aficionado J. Brian O'Roark, the two form a powerful alliance. With brilliant deadpan enthusiasm, he shows how the travails of superheroes can explain the building blocks of economics and how the laws of economics explain the mysteries of superhero behavior. Why Superman Doesn't Take Over the World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics probes the motivations of our favorite heroes and considers what it would look like if their stories played out in reality.
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Why Superman Doesn't Take Over The World
- What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2019
- Language: English
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God and Mammon
- Chronicles of American Money
- By: Lance Morrow
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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This book is about the partnership of God and Mammon in the New World - about how Americans have made money and lost money, and about how they have thought about that obsessive and peculiarly American subject. Money is the basic American thing, the life's blood of the country. God and Mammon shows how the dynamics of money in its many dimensions (material, spiritual, cultural, psychological) worked to make America what it is. It traces the grand American binaries of success and failure to their theological origins in Calvinism's anxieties about salvation and damnation.
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God and Mammon
- Chronicles of American Money
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 27-10-2020
- Language: English
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Lincolnomics
- How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
- By: John F. Wasik
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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Author John F. Wasik tracks Lincoln from his time in the 1830s as a young Illinois state legislator pushing for internal improvements; through his work as a lawyer representing the Illinois Central Railroad in the 1840s; to his presidential fight for the Transcontinental Railroad; and his support of land-grant colleges that educated a nation. These brick-and-mortar developments were essential to how the nation could lift citizens above poverty and its isolating origins.
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Lincolnomics
- How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2021
- Language: English
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Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads
- Technological Change and the Future of Politics
- By: Carles Boix
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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The 20th century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that political consensus appears to be breaking down, disrupted by polarization and income inequality, widespread dissatisfaction with democratic institutions, and insurgent populism. Tracing the history of democratic capitalism over the past two centuries, Carles Boix explains how we got here - and where we could be headed.
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Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads
- Technological Change and the Future of Politics
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 28-05-2019
- Language: English
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The Dollar
- How the US Dollar Became a Popular Currency in Argentina
- By: Mariana Luzzi, Ariel Wilkis
- Narrated by: Kate Udall
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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How did the dollar come to play such a leading role in Argentina's national existence? How and why did this global currency become a local currency on the other end of the Western hemisphere? Through the reconstruction of the social and cultural history of the US dollar in Argentina, Luzzi and Wilkis provide original insight into this sidebar of the dollar's history, showing how it became a "local" currency even outside its country of origin.
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The Dollar
- How the US Dollar Became a Popular Currency in Argentina
- Narrated by: Kate Udall
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 26-12-2023
- Language: English
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