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    • 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 93 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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    • 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 24 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 Elite Charade of Changing the World
    • By: Anand Giridharadas
    • Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,134 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • Economic Possibilities for Our Time
    • By: Jeffrey Sachs
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hilgartner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 234 ratings
    • The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists....

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    • By: David Harvey
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 360 ratings
    • Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so....

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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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    • The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
    • By: Quinn Slobodian
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization....

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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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    • False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
    • By: Binyamin Appelbaum
    • Narrated by: Dan Bittner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • In this fascinating character-driven history, a New York Times editorial writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist spotlights the American economists who championed the rise of markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world....

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    • A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics
    • By: Mark Skousen
    • Narrated by: Todd Gaddy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • "This tale is thorough, thoughtful, even-handed, and highly readable. All economists, of whatever school, will find it both instructive and entertaining." - Milton Friedman

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    • Or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails
    • By: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 351 ratings
    • Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important - and difficult - audience yet....

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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 429 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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    • An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
    • By: J. Bradford DeLong
    • Narrated by: Allan Aquino
    • Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • From one of the world’s leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied....

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    • What Killed Capitalism
    • By: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Big tech has replaced capitalism's twin pillars—markets and profit—with its platforms and rents. With every click and scroll, we labor like serfs to increase its power....

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    • The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
    • By: Karen Petrou
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Engine of Inequality reveals how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy....

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    • Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back
    • By: Carol Roth
    • Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 07-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • The New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur investigates what would happen if a new financial world order took hold, one in which global elites own everything and you own nothing—and yet you are somehow happy....

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    • Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Michael Edwards
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,596 ratings
    • In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of 30 years of work in the history of ideas", Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives....

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