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    • A History of the Rich in the West
    • By: Guido Alfani
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Alfani argues that the position of the rich and super-rich in Western society has always been intrinsically fragile; their very presence has inspired social unease. In the Middle Ages, an excessive accumulation of wealth was considered sinful; the rich were expected not to appear to be wealthy....

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    • By: Paul Krugman
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 517 ratings
    • In Paul Krugman, the world's most widely read economist and one of its most influential political commentators, charts the way to reform of American politics....

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    • How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
    • By: Judith Stein
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory....

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    • By: John Kenneth Galbraith
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world, and lays bare the hazards of complacence about economic inequity....

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    • The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
    • By: Dani Rodrik
    • Narrated by: James Conlan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works....

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    • How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
    • By: James K. Galbraith
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Highly regarded economist James Galbraith presents a full-bore attack on the bankrupt economic policies of the Republican Party....

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    • How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
    • By: Linda Yueh
    • Narrated by: Linda Yueh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Acclaimed economist and BBC broadcaster Linda Yueh profiles the great economic minds who focused on the big questions: growth, innovation, and the nature of markets....

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    • By: Sean Masaki Flynn PhD
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The economy is always changing, but some things are eternal! Economics for Dummies, 3rd Edition, gives you everything you need to understand our rapidly evolving economy as well as the basics that never change....

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    • How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy
    • By: Joel Bakan
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation....

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    • Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite
    • By: Michael Lind
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • In both Europe and North America, populist movements have shattered existing party systems and thrown governments into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims that these populist insurgencies seek to overthrow liberal democracy. The truth is no less alarming but is more complex....

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    • The Case Against Extreme Wealth
    • By: Ingrid Robeyns
    • Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • How much money is too much? Is it ethical, and democratic, for an individual to amass a limitless amount of wealth, and then spend it however they choose? Many of us feel that the answer to that is no—but what can we do about it....

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    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,794 ratings
    • The underlying concern of these essays is about what these very different kinds of cases say about the general direction of American society....

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    • On the Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts
    • By: Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, Zach Ward-Perkins
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is most of us can't speak it....

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    • The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers, Second Edition
    • By: Mark Skousen
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • The dramatic story of the great economic thinkers, their lives, quirks, and ideas as told by a free-market economist, now in its second edition.....

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    • The Return of the Master
    • By: Robert Skidelsky
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • The ideas of John Maynard Keynes have never been more timely....

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    • A History of the United States Since 1974
    • By: Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 361 ratings
    • How did the US become so divided? Fault Lines offers a richly told, wide-angle history view toward an answer....

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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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    • A Cure for Capitalism
    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society....

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    • Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
    • By: Martin Gilens
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy....

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    • Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world....

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