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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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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
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Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....
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A Superb must read for everyone
- By Joy on 04-16-19
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 10-23-18
- Language: English
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Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....
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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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People, Power, and Profits
- Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
- By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy....
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Partisan, Pandering & the almighty straw man
- By Sam Griffin on 05-17-19
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People, Power, and Profits
- Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-14-19
- Language: English
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A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy....
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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 Whiteness of Wealth
- How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans - and How We Can Fix It
- By: Dorothy A. Brown
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy....
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Thought provoking and very accessible
- By Simone on 05-16-21
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The Whiteness of Wealth
- How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans - and How We Can Fix It
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-23-21
- Language: English
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A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy....
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Free to Choose
- A Personal Statement
- By: Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, teamed up to write this most convincing and readable guide, which illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society....
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Fantastic
- By Erik on 01-21-08
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Free to Choose
- A Personal Statement
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-22-07
- Language: English
- Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, teamed up to write this most convincing and readable guide, which illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society....
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The Fourth Turning Is Here
- What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End
- By: Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Neil Howe
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
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Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they’d uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly 80 to 100 years....
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A little baffled
- By John Coleman on 07-18-23
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The Fourth Turning Is Here
- What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End
- Narrated by: Neil Howe
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 07-18-23
- Language: English
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Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they’d uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly 80 to 100 years....
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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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Discrimination and Disparities
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....
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Hard Pill To Swallow - I’m better for it
- By Charles on 01-14-19
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Discrimination and Disparities
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 03-06-18
- Language: English
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Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....
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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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Keynes Hayek
- The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
- By: Nicholas Wapshott
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore the balance to economies gone awry....
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An unbiased evaluation of both the major economist
- By Anand on 03-17-12
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Keynes Hayek
- The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 10-31-11
- Language: English
- As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore the balance to economies gone awry....
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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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Beaten Down, Worked Up
- The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
- By: Steven Greenhouse
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
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From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empowered....
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Must read
- By Amazon Customer on 10-21-20
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Beaten Down, Worked Up
- The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-06-19
- Language: English
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From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empowered....
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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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Our Kids
- The American Dream in Crisis
- By: Robert D. Putnam
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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It's the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success....
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A more relatable, less rigorous, Coming Apart
- By Catherine Spiller on 03-28-15
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Our Kids
- The American Dream in Crisis
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 03-10-15
- Language: English
- It's the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success....
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There’s No Free Lunch
- 250 Economic Truths
- By: David L. Bahnsen
- Narrated by: David L. Bahnsen
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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The best way to defend the cause of human flourishing against this current onslaught of dangerous economic thinking is to relearn time-tested economic truths....
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Slow boring
- By JPM on 11-13-21
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There’s No Free Lunch
- 250 Economic Truths
- Narrated by: David L. Bahnsen
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 10-19-21
- Language: English
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The best way to defend the cause of human flourishing against this current onslaught of dangerous economic thinking is to relearn time-tested economic truths....
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Development as Freedom
- By: Amartya Sen
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Freedom, Amartya Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population....
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The book that launched a field
- By Bryan on 06-07-12
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Development as Freedom
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-09-12
- Language: English
- Freedom, Amartya Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population....
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A Collective Bargain
- Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
- By: Jane McAlevey
- Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class....
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Disappointing
- By Ellen on 01-26-20
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A Collective Bargain
- Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
- Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-07-20
- Language: English
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In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class....
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The Meritocracy Trap
- How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
- By: Daniel Markovits
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
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A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....
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A well-argued theory
- By Fountain of Chris on 09-20-19
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The Meritocracy Trap
- How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 09-10-19
- Language: English
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A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....
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