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    • The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
    • By: Tyler Cowen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. The problem is that Americans today have broken from this tradition....

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    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

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    • Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
    • By: Peter Moskowitz
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 261 ratings
    • "Gentrification" has become a buzzword to describe changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops....

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    • Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
    • By: Peter Joseph
    • Narrated by: Peter Joseph
    • Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 466 ratings
    • In our interconnected world, self-interest and social interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable....

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    • A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
    • By: Branko Milanovic
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale....

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    • How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy
    • By: David Gelles
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 486 ratings
    • New York Times reporter and “Corner Office” columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that’s wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs....

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    • The Key to Prosperity Through Social Capitalism
    • By: Daniel Lacalle
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A straightforward, modern, and comprehensive approach to our economy that encourages saving, investment, and innovation - leveraging capitalism's benefits to improve opportunities for everyone rather than a select few....

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    • An International Perspective
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,393 ratings
    • One of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in the country argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality....

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    • Economics and the Good Society
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America's current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure.

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    • America in 100 Charts
    • By: Scott Galloway
    • Narrated by: Scott Galloway
    • Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 325 ratings
    • From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation—and how we got here....

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    • By: Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 331 ratings
    • Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is essential....

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    • The Demonization of the Working Class
    • By: Owen Jones
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In this investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the caricature....

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    • How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
    • By: Jason L. Riley
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,126 ratings
    • Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries....

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • By: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

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    • How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline
    • By: Jonathan Tepperman
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren, Jonathan Tepperman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • A provocative look at the world's most difficult, seemingly ineradicable problems - and the surprising stories of the countries that solved them....

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    • How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
    • By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
    • Narrated by: Liza Seneca
    • Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with 'big government' and up with unfettered markets....

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    • What Has Gone Wrong with Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix Them
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • Robert B. Reich urges Americans to get beyond mere outrage about the nation’s increasingly concentrated wealth and corrupt politics in order to mobilizeand to take back our economy and democracy....

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    • A History of the United States
    • By: Jonathan Levy
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present - and argues that we’ve reached yet another turning point that will define the era ahead....

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    • Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
    • By: Tyler Cowen
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 377 ratings
    • The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you're not at the top, you're at the bottom....

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    • The Secret History of Neoliberalism
    • By: George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison
    • Narrated by: George Monbiot
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A “fantastic” (Mark Ruffalo), fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but connects it to the climate crisis, poverty, and fascism—and shows us how to fight back.

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