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    • Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
    • By: Jason Hickel
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • Sixty percent of humanity - some four-point-three billion people - live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right....

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    • How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
    • By: Thomas M. Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In our increasingly diverse nation, sociologist Thomas M. Shapiro argues, wealth disparities must be understood in tandem with racial inequities - a dangerous combination he terms "toxic inequality"....

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    • Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
    • By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
    • Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving. But Sachs turns his attention back home in The Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for every American....

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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 55 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The appearance of the famous (and massive) volumes of Rothbard's Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought in a new edition is cause for great celebration. Every paragraph bursts with intellectual energy and the author's fiery passion....

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    • The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
    • By: Justin Farrell
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face....

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    • The Collapse and Revival of American Community
    • By: Robert D. Putnam
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 387 ratings
    • Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another ....

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    • Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy....

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    • 250 Economic Truths
    • By: David L. Bahnsen
    • Narrated by: David L. Bahnsen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • 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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    • Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
    • By: Zephyr Teachout, Bernie Sanders - foreword
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey, Zephyr Teachout
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • Every facet of American life is being overtaken by big platform monopolists like Facebook, Google, and Bayer (which has merged with the former agricultural giant Monsanto), resulting in a greater concentration of wealth and power than we've seen since the Gilded Age....

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    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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    • The User's Guide
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works - in real-world terms....

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    • The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
    • By: Jefferson R. Cowie
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 07-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 340 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 428 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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    • The Lives and Ideas of The Great Thinkers
    • By: Mark Skousen
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics—the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today’s rigorous social science....

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    • The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
    • By: Lily Geismer
    • Narrated by: Christine Lakin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • ​This piercingly intelligent book shows how bygone policy decisions have left us with skyrocketing income inequality and poverty in America and widened fractures within the Democratic Party that persist to this day....

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    • How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system; they function the same way as cancer does in a body, and like cancer, they weaken our systems while threatening to crash the entire body economics....

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    • America and the World in the Free Market Era
    • By: Gary Gerstle
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was....

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