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Jump-Starting America
- How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
- By: Jonathan Gruber, Simon Johnson
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen—and how we can do it again. The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded...
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Jump-Starting America
- How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2019
- Language: English
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Crack
- Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed
- By: David Farber
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Crack explains why, in a de-industrializing America in which market forces ruled and entrepreneurial risk-taking was celebrated, the crack industry was a lucrative enterprise for the "Horatio Alger boys" of their place and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of economic globalization. Hip Hop artists often celebrated their exploits but overwhelmingly, Americans - across racial lines - did not. Crack takes a hard look at the dark side of late 20th-century capitalism.
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Crack
- Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 26-12-2019
- Language: English
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Innovators
- By: David W. Galenson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
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When in their lives are innovators most creative, and why? This book summarizes more than two decades of research prompted by this question. The result is an authoritative statement of a new unified theory of creativity, that overturns both popular and scholarly beliefs about the sources of human inventiveness. David Galenson shows that there are two distinctly different kinds of creativity in virtually every discipline.
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Innovators
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-12-2025
- Language: English
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The Bank War
- Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance
- By: Paul Kahan
- Narrated by: Jared Cram
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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In The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance, historian Paul Kahan explores one of the most important and dramatic events in American political and economic history, from the idea of centralized banking and the First Bank of the United States to Jackson's triumph, the era of "free banking", and the creation of the Federal Reserve System. Relying on a range of primary and secondary source material, the book also shows how the Bank War was a manifestation of the debates that were sparked at the Constitutional Convention....
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The Bank War
- Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance
- Narrated by: Jared Cram
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 31-08-2019
- Language: English
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Grave New World
- The End of Globalization, the Return of History
- By: Stephen D. King
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets is beginning to fracture. With disappointing growth rates across the Western world, nations are no longer willing to sacrifice national interests for global growth, nor are their leaders able - or willing - to sell the idea of pursuing a global agenda of prosperity to their citizens.
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Grave New World
- The End of Globalization, the Return of History
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2017
- Language: English
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Rogue Economics
- Capitalism's New Reality
- By: Loretta Napoleoni
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Economist and syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni argues that the world is undergoing rapid and unexpected great transformations fueled by what she calls rogue economics. Eagerly awaited around the world (translation rights have already been sold throughout Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia), Napoleoni's account is based on top-to-bottom primary-source interviews from banking executives in New York to Russian prostitutes to London morgue workers.
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Rogue Economics
- Capitalism's New Reality
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2009
- Language: English
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Why Is “Everything” Made in China?
- The Hidden Systems Behind the World’s Factory
- By: Elira Fontayne
- Narrated by: Eyvonne Kinsey
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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You can tell a great deal about the modern world by turning an everyday object over in your hands and reading the small print. A phone case, a kettle, a child’s toy, a set of headphones, a pack of socks, a kitchen timer, a car part, a rechargeable torch, a cable, a cheap drill, a Christmas decoration, a novelty mug, a watch strap, a hairdryer. The range is so ordinary that it becomes invisible. We barely register it anymore.
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Why Is “Everything” Made in China?
- The Hidden Systems Behind the World’s Factory
- Narrated by: Eyvonne Kinsey
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2026
- Language: English
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The Currency of Empire
- Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America
- By: Jonathan Barth
- Narrated by: John Harrison Gass
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation.
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The Currency of Empire
- Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America
- Narrated by: John Harrison Gass
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 20-02-2024
- Language: English
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Visions of Inequality
- From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
- By: Branko Milanovic
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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Visions of Inequality takes us from Quesnay and the physiocrats, for whom social classes were prescribed by law, through the classic nineteenth-century treatises of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, who saw class as a purely economic category driven by means of production. It shows how Pareto reconceived class as a matter of elites versus the rest of the population, while Kuznets saw inequality arising from the urban-rural divide. And it explains why inequality studies were eclipsed during the Cold War, before their remarkable resurgence as a central preoccupation in economics today.
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Visions of Inequality
- From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 30-07-2024
- 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
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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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Visible Hand
- A Wealth of Notions on the Miracle of the Market
- By: Matthew Hennessey
- Narrated by: Andrew Fallaize
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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To most people, the word economics sounds like homework. In Visible Hand, Wall Street Journal op-ed editor Matthew Hennessey brings basic economic principles vividly to life in plain English, without resorting to numbers, graphs, or jargon. This isn’t Fed policy or the stock market. This is the essential stuff: supply and demand, incentives and tradeoffs, scarcity and innovation, work and leisure.
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Visible Hand
- A Wealth of Notions on the Miracle of the Market
- Narrated by: Andrew Fallaize
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 12-04-2022
- Language: English
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Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
- By: Philip S. Foner, Robin D.G. Kelley - foreword
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
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In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of black workers’ contribution to the American labor movement.
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Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 31-12-2019
- Language: English
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The Innovation Illusion
- How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard
- By: Fredrik Erixon, Bjorn Weigel
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a vast array of data and case studies to tell a very different story. With expertise spanning academia and the business world, Erixon and Weigel illustrate how innovation is being hampered by existing government regulations and corporate practices.
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The Innovation Illusion
- How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-12-2017
- Language: English
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How Not to Get Rich
- The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
- By: Alan Pell Crawford
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Mark Twain's lifetime spans America's era of greatest economic growth. And Twain was an active, even giddy, participant in all the great booms and busts of his time, launching himself into one harebrained get-rich-quick scheme after another. But far from striking it rich, the man who coined the term "Gilded Age" failed with comical regularity to join the ranks of plutocrats who made this period in America notorious for its wealth and excess.
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How Not to Get Rich
- The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-10-2017
- Language: English
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The Economic Theory of Sex
- Industrialism, Feminism, and the Disintegration of the Family
- By: Eric Robert Morse
- Narrated by: Amanda Bolton
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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We face a crisis of sexuality. During the last few years, we have witnessed an unprecedented breakdown of traditions and mores concerning sexuality and the family. Countries across the West have suddenly and seemingly irrevocably instituted same-sex marriage; a former athlete has won awards for publicly changing gender; and no one seems to know what restroom to use any more. What used to be taboo and frowned upon has become normal and even encouraged. What used to be normal and sought after is now viewed as unnecessary and possibly harmful.
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Archaic views shrouded in jargon and statistics
- By Anna O'Brien on 28-07-2017
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The Economic Theory of Sex
- Industrialism, Feminism, and the Disintegration of the Family
- Narrated by: Amanda Bolton
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 23-01-2017
- Language: English
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WRONG: Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them
- By: Richard S. Grossman
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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In recent years, the world has been rocked by major economic crises, most notably the devastating collapse of Lehman Brothers, the largest bankruptcy in American history, which triggered the breathtakingly destructive sub-prime disaster. What sparks these vast economic calamities? Why do our economic policy makers fail to protect us from such upheavals? In Wrong, economist Richard Grossman addresses such questions, shining a light on the poor thinking behind nine of the worst economic policy mistakes of the past 200 years, missteps whose outcomes ranged from appalling to tragic.
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WRONG: Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 14-05-2014
- Language: English
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Money Well Spent?
- The Truth behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History
- By: Michael Grabell
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administration’s handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obama’s “audacity of hope” met the austerity of reality. Central to this is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - the largest economic recovery plan in American history. Senator Mitch McConnell gave a taste of the enormity of the money committed: if you had spent $1 million a day since Jesus was born, it still would not add up to the price tag of the stimulus package.
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Money Well Spent?
- The Truth behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 31-01-2012
- Language: English
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Chasing the White Dog
- An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in the Moonshine Capital of the World
- By: Max Watman
- Narrated by: Max Watman
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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In Chasing the White Dog, journalist Max Watman traces the historical roots and contemporary story of hooch. He takes us to the backwoods of Appalachia and the gritty nip joints of Philadelphia, from a federal courthouse to Pocono Speedway, profiling the colorful characters who make up white whiskey's lore. Along the way, Watman chronicles his hilarious attempts to distill his own moonshine - the essential ingredients and the many ways it can all go wrong - from his initial ill-fated batch to his first successful jar of 'shine.
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What a Pussy.
- By Anonymous on 15-12-2020
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Chasing the White Dog
- An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in the Moonshine Capital of the World
- Narrated by: Max Watman
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 11-10-2013
- Language: English
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And Then the Roof Caved In
- How Wall Street's Greed and Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees
- By: David Faber
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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And Then the Roof Caved In lays bare the truth of the 2007-08 credit crisis, whose defining emotion at every turn was greed, and whose defining failure is the complicity of the US government in letting that greed rule the day. Written by CNBC's David Faber, this book painstakingly details the truth of what really happened with compelling characters who offer their first-hand accounts of what they did and why they did it.
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And Then the Roof Caved In
- How Wall Street's Greed and Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2020
- Language: English
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The Divide
- A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
- By: Jason Hickel
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Brought to you by Penguin. · The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined. · Today, 60 per cent of the world's population lives on less than $5 a day. · Though global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, 1.1 billion more people are now living in...
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The Divide
- A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 04-06-2026
- Language: English
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