Economic inequality

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    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 964 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Henry Hazlitt
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,883 ratings
    • Called by H.L. Mencken, "one of the few economists in history who could really write," Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliant but concise work....

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    • How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
    • By: Richard V. Reeves
    • Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 416 ratings
    • As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle....

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    • 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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    • Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
    • By: Peter Turchin
    • Narrated by: Robin McAlpine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics Peter Turchin presents the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames....

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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 347 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 88 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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    • 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 19 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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    • 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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    • 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 204 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 the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
    • By: Christopher Leonard
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 866 ratings
    • If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press....

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    • How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
    • By: Robert D. Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett - contributor
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism — Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times....

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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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    • Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,321 ratings
    • 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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    • Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,060 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 2,395 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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