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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- By: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? Find out....
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Enlightening
- By Robert McIntosh on 09-18-20
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-15-20
- Language: English
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? Find out....
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Twilight of the Elites
- America after Meritocracy
- By: Chris Hayes
- Narrated by: Chris Hayes
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy....
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Troubling truths
- By Face on 12-26-12
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Twilight of the Elites
- America after Meritocracy
- Narrated by: Chris Hayes
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-12-12
- Language: English
- A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy....
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The Color of Money
- Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
- By: Mehrsa Baradaran
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
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Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....
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Both a Bridge and a Battle Cry
- By Darwin8u on 09-26-17
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The Color of Money
- Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 09-26-17
- Language: English
- Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....
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The System
- Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
- By: Robert B. Reich
- Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....
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Turn Off Your TV. Wake Up and Listen Now!
- By Benchmark on 03-25-20
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The System
- Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
- Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-24-20
- Language: English
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From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....
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Saving Capitalism
- For the Many, Not the Few
- By: Robert B. Reich
- Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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In Saving Capitalism, Robert Reich reveals the entrenched cycles of power and influence that have damaged American capitalism, perpetuating a new oligarchy....
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A riveting economics book! Mind. Blown.
- By Nothing really matters on 04-18-16
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Saving Capitalism
- For the Many, Not the Few
- Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 09-29-15
- Language: English
- In Saving Capitalism, Robert Reich reveals the entrenched cycles of power and influence that have damaged American capitalism, perpetuating a new oligarchy....
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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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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Documents how US plutocracy oppresses citizens
- By BruceK on 04-14-17
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 03-28-17
- Language: English
- 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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Coming Apart
- The State of White America, 1960–2010
- By: Charles Murray
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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From the best-selling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that have historically joined our classes....
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Brilliant & Flawed
- By Douglas C. Bates on 05-15-12
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Coming Apart
- The State of White America, 1960–2010
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-16-12
- Language: English
- From the best-selling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that have historically joined our classes....
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
- Or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails
- By: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important - and difficult - audience yet....
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Super Digestible
- By Sean on 06-30-22
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
- Or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-08-18
- Language: English
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Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important - and difficult - audience yet....
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The Economics Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential audio reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work....
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This book and the while series are great for reading only
- By Maxr00m on 12-25-20
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The Economics Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-08-19
- Language: English
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From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential audio reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work....
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Good Economics for Hard Times
- Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
- By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day....
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audio is not The best format for a book like this
- By CB on 12-08-19
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Good Economics for Hard Times
- Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-12-19
- Language: English
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The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day....
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Capital and Ideology
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
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The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....
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Big thinking at its finest
- By Amazon Customer on 03-20-20
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Capital and Ideology
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 03-10-20
- Language: English
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The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....
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The Broken Ladder
- How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
- By: Keith Payne
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Today's inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means....
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amazing book. changed my thinking about poverty.
- By David Larson on 07-03-17
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The Broken Ladder
- How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-02-17
- Language: English
- Today's inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means....
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
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In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....
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The Financial Times' Critique Doesn't Detract
- By Madeleine on 05-22-14
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-22-14
- Language: English
- In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....
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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
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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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One side is never enough....
- By Michael on 08-08-12
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The Price of Inequality
- How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-11-12
- Language: English
- 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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The Big Three in Economics
- Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
- By: Mark Skousen
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history....
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Cut and paste
- By Jan on 05-25-07
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The Big Three in Economics
- Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 04-09-07
- Language: English
- The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history....
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Poverty, by America
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- By Alonzo Nightjar on 03-27-23
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Poverty, by America
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-21-23
- Language: English
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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Winners Take All
- The Elite Charade of Changing the World
- By: Anand Giridharadas
- Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it....
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Profound.
- By Amazon Customer on 10-10-18
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Winners Take All
- The Elite Charade of Changing the World
- Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 08-28-18
- Language: English
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Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it....
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- By: Anne Case, Angus Deaton
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....
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So many words, so little insight
- By Trebla on 03-22-20
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-17-20
- Language: English
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From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....
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Capitalism Without Capital
- The Rise of the Intangible Economy
- By: Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy....
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Fascinating topic
- By GSS on 03-08-18
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Capitalism Without Capital
- The Rise of the Intangible Economy
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 12-15-17
- Language: English
- The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy....
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Evil Geniuses
- The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
- By: Kurt Andersen
- Narrated by: Kurt Andersen
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
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When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change - and charts a way back to the future....
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History through a far left lens
- By Josh on 09-03-20
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Evil Geniuses
- The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
- Narrated by: Kurt Andersen
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-11-20
- Language: English
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When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change - and charts a way back to the future....
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