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  • Ours Was the Shining Future Audiobook By David Leonhardt cover art

    • Ours Was the Shining Future

    • The Story of the American Dream
    • By: David Leonhardt
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings

    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times’s “The Morning” newsletter provides a clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the death of the American Dream....

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  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Audiobook By Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword cover art

    • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 530 ratings

    • 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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  • The Code of Capital Audiobook By Katharina Pistor cover art

    • The Code of Capital

    • How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
    • By: Katharina Pistor
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings

    • Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? Find out....

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  • The Great Leveler Audiobook By Walter Scheidel cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • 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....

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  • Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason Audiobook By David Harvey cover art

    • Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason

    • By: David Harvey
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings

    • Karl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second half of the 19th century: his assumptions and analysis need to be updated in order to address technological, economic, and industrial change....

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  • Free to Choose Audiobook By Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman cover art

    • Free to Choose

    • A Personal Statement
    • By: Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,755 ratings
    • 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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  • Crashed Audiobook By Adam Tooze cover art

    • Crashed

    • How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
    • By: Adam Tooze
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
    • Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 559 ratings

    • From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shock waves being felt around the world today....

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  • Austerity Audiobook By Mark Blyth cover art

    • Austerity

    • The History of a Dangerous Idea
    • By: Mark Blyth
    • Narrated by: Fred Stella
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse....

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  • A Collective Bargain Audiobook By Jane McAlevey cover art

    • A Collective Bargain

    • Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
    • By: Jane McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings

    • 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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  • Development as Freedom Audiobook By Amartya Sen cover art

    • Development as Freedom

    • By: Amartya Sen
    • Narrated by: Byron Wagner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • 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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  • Trade Wars Are Class Wars Audiobook By Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis cover art

    • Trade Wars Are Class Wars

    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings

    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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  • Knowledge and Power Audiobook By George Gilder cover art

    • Knowledge and Power

    • The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World
    • By: George Gilder
    • Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 268 ratings
    • Just when our economy desperately needs a new direction, Ronald Reagan’s most quoted living author - George Gilder - is back with an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism that will upturn conventional wisdom....

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  • Stakeholder Capitalism Audiobook By Klaus Schwab, Peter Vanham - contributor cover art

    • Stakeholder Capitalism

    • A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
    • By: Klaus Schwab, Peter Vanham - contributor
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings

    • Our global economic system is broken. But we can replace the current picture of global upheaval, unsustainability, and uncertainty with one of an economy that works for all people, and the planet....

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  • The Whiteness of Wealth Audiobook By Dorothy A. Brown cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 518 ratings

    • A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy....

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  • Discrimination and Disparities Audiobook By Thomas Sowell cover art

    • Discrimination and Disparities

    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,023 ratings

    • Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....

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  • Beaten Down, Worked Up Audiobook By Steven Greenhouse cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings

    • 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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  • Bad Samaritans Audiobook By Ha-Joon Chang cover art

    • Bad Samaritans

    • The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Jim Bond
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • This book calls on America to return to its abandoned role, to offer a helping hand instead of a closed fist to countries struggling to follow in our footsteps....

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  • Give People Money Audiobook By Annie Lowrey cover art

    • Give People Money

    • How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
    • By: Annie Lowrey
    • Narrated by: Annie Lowrey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 325 ratings

    • Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time....

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  • $2.00 a Day Audiobook By Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer cover art

    • $2.00 a Day

    • Living on Almost Nothing in America
    • By: Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 687 ratings
    • There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

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  • Straight Talk on Trade Audiobook By Dani Rodrik cover art

    • Straight Talk on Trade

    • Ideas for a Sane World Economy
    • By: Dani Rodrik
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    • Dani Rodrik, an early and outspoken critic of economic globalization taken too far, goes beyond the populist backlash and offers a more reasoned argument against our elites' obsession with hyper-globalization....

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