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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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    • Economics and Everyday Life
    • By: Steven E. Landsburg
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • The extensively revised and updated edition of Steven Landsburg's hugely popular book, The Armchair Economist - "a delightful compendium of quotidian examples illustrating important economic and financial theories" (The Journal of Finance). Listen to learn more....

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    • A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 28 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives....

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    • The History of a Dangerous Idea
    • By: Mark Blyth
    • Narrated by: Fred Stella
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse....

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    • How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
    • By: Atif Mian, Amir Sufi
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Atif Mian and Amir Sufi reveal in House of Debt how the Great Recession and Great Depression were caused by a large run-up in household debt....

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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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    • An Introduction to Marxist Economics
    • By: Hadas Thier
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Presenting a lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%....

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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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    • 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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    • How to Survive the Demise of the U.S. Debt Market
    • By: Michael G. Pento
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Backed by a wealth of historical and economic data, Mr. Pento examines how the policies followed by both the Federal Reserve and private industry have led, inexorably, to the impending disaster, and he exposes alarming parallels between the US and European debt crises....

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    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics....

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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 497 ratings
    • The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle....

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    • The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
    • By: Sebastian Mallaby
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 29 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time, from the best-selling author of The Power Law and More Money Than God. Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research....

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    • How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
    • By: Edward Conard
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Challenging the arguments of liberal economists like Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, Edward Conard reveals the truth about the income inequality panic....

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    • Why the Right and Left Are Both Wrong - Commonsense 101 Solutions to the Economic Crises
    • By: H. Woody Brock
    • Narrated by: Maurice England
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Brock reveals fresh ideas for tackling issues central to the 2012 US Presidential election....

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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 61 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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    • America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
    • By: Don Watkins, Yaron Brook
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 620 ratings
    • In this timely and thought-provoking work, Don Watkins and Yaron Brook reveal that almost everything we've been taught about inequality is wrong....

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    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....

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    • How America Gave Up on Free Markets
    • By: Thomas Philippon
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Why are cellphone plans so much more expensive in the United States than in Europe? It seems a simple question. But the search for an answer took Thomas Philippon on an unexpected journey through some of the most complex and hotly debated issues in modern economics....

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    • By: Saifedean Ammous
    • Narrated by: Saifedean Ammous
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Principles of Economics is a university-level textbook in economics that offers a clear and concise exploration of the most important economic concepts....

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