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    • For the Many, Not the Few
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,705 ratings
    • In Saving Capitalism, Robert Reich reveals the entrenched cycles of power and influence that have damaged American capitalism, perpetuating a new oligarchy....

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    • Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
    • By: Stephanie Kelton
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Kelton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,577 ratings
    • Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs....

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    • By: Ruchir Sharma
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A century of expanding government has distorted financial markets, stoked massive inequality, and soaked America in debt. Capitalism didn’t fail, it was ruined. What went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma’s account is not like any you will have heard before.

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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 22 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 496 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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    • Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy
    • By: Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite....

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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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    • A Personal Statement
    • By: Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,752 ratings
    • Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, teamed up to write this most convincing and readable guide, which illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society....

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    • Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
    • By: Richard Heinberg
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits....

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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 93 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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    • 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 192 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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    • How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
    • By: Brink Lindsey, Steven M. Teles
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. Lindsey and Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit....

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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 23 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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    • 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 342 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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    • 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 2,881 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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    • An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America
    • By: Danielle DiMartino Booth
    • Narrated by: Danielle DiMartino Booth
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 857 ratings
    • This book is Booth's clarion call for a change in the way America's most powerful financial institution is run - before it's too late....

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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 53 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 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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