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    • The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue
    • By: Lauren Weber
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Cheap. Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life....

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    • Why Manufacturing Still Matters
    • By: Louis Uchitelle
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In the 1950s manufacturing generated nearly 30 percent of US income. Over the past 55 years that share has gradually declined to less than 12 percent....

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    • Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy
    • By: Gerald F. Davis
    • Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • It may be hard to believe in an era of Walmart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but corporations are on the decline....

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    • The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy
    • By: Andrew N. Liveris
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • We used to make things in this country. We were the dazzling innovators, the undisputed world economic leaders....

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    • By: Christopher W. Calvo
    • Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Emergence of Capitalism in Early America shows how American economists challenged, adjusted, and adopted the ideas of European thinkers such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Thomas Malthus to suit their particular interests.

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    • By: Josh Lerner
    • Narrated by: Dennis Holland
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv--the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity all bear the marks of government investment....

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    • By: Liam Byrne
    • Narrated by: Keith Wickham
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • A wide-ranging and compelling account of the historical and current causes of wealth inequality, offering prescriptions for lasting solutions to an intractable problem, and for a more equitable distribution of wealth and resources.

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    • By: Eric R. Crouse
    • Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-20
    • Language: English
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    • This book examines the breakdown of the Keynesian Revolution. Drawing on economic literature, the memoirs of economists and politicians, and the popular press, Eric Crouse examines how economic decline in the 1970s precipitated a political revolution....

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    • How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us
    • By: John Quiggin
    • Narrated by: Gideon Emery
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land....

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    • Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy
    • By: Michael Lewis, Pat Conaty
    • Narrated by: Eric Pollins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place—compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale....

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    • How Capitalism Can Work for Everyone
    • By: Douglas McWilliams
    • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From the inquisitive layperson to the professional economist or policymaker, The Inequality Paradox is essential listening for understanding the global economy in its present state....

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    • How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants
    • By: Maurice E. Stucke, Ariel Ezrachi
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Using dozens of vivid examples of how society overprescribed competition as a solution and when unbridled rivalry hurts consumers, kills entrepreneurship, and increases economic inequality, two free-market thinkers diagnose the sickness caused by competition overdose and provide remedies....

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    • How Smarter Government Can Rescue the American Dream
    • By: Edward D. Kleinbard
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this thought-provoking book, Edward D. Kleinbard demonstrates how the failure to acknowledge the force of brute luck in our material lives exacerbates these crises leading to warped policy choices that impede genuine equality of opportunity for many Americans....

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    • Capitalism's New Reality
    • By: Loretta Napoleoni
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Economist and syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni argues that the world is undergoing rapid and unexpected great transformations fueled by what she calls rogue economics....

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    • Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy
    • By: Daniel Alpert
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Why Western capitalism is broken and how the U.S. can recover its global economic leadership status....

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    • A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future - and the Challenge for America
    • By: James Kynge
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • "Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe....

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    • The Odd Couple?
    • By: Magnus Feldmann - editor, Glenn Morgan - editor
    • Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
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    • The rise of populist movements in various parts of the world is widely perceived as a significant challenge to policymaking, mainstream political parties, and even to liberal democracy. Yet we know very little about the impact of populism on business....

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    • Inequality in America: 10 Causes and 10 Cures
    • By: Joel Joseph
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-24
    • Language: English
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    • Everyone is talking about inequality in America. Thomas Piketty’s recent book Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a best-seller. However, ...

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