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    • How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do About It
    • By: Dirk Philipsen
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Little Big Number explores a possible road map for a future that advances quality of life rather than indiscriminate growth....

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    • How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future
    • By: Stephen Poloz
    • Narrated by: Stephen Poloz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From the former Governor of the Bank of Canada, a far-seeing guide to the powerful economic forces that will shape the decades ahead....

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    • The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
    • By: Marc Levinson
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A sweeping reappraisal of the last sixty years of world history, An Extraordinary Time describes how the postwar economic boom dissipated, undermining faith in government....

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    • By: Peter Deegan
    • Narrated by: Peter Deegan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In short perspective sketches of six social systems - politics, money, taxes, work, markets and law - Snafu explores what happened to those systems during a period of 200 years from the Industrial Revolution through the 1970s....

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    • The Unexplored Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Lessons yet to Be Learned Than One
    • By: Tamim Bayoumi
    • Narrated by: Tom Beyer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is a penetrating critique tracing how under-regulated trading between European and US banks led to the 2008 financial crisis - with a prescription for preventing another meltdown....

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    • A Citizen's Guide to Shaping the 21st Century
    • By: Indranil Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Powering Prosperity, Dr. Indranil Ghosh brings together his decades of experience as a sustainable economic development investor and an MIT-trained scientist to provide a new framework for understanding the world's challenges and the choices societies must make to address them....

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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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    • Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class
    • By: Jeff Faux
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • America's political and economic elite spent so long making such terrible decisions that they caused the collapse of 2008. So how can they continue down the same road? No one in charge wants to publicly acknowledge is that things are still pretty great for the people who run America.....

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    • How New Policy Can Restore Stability
    • By: Michael E. Lewitt
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • While some semblance of stability has returned to the financial markets, the economies on which these markets must ultimately depend remain structurally weak....

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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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    • By: Robert Villegas
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • How many times have we heard the old saw: “Capitalism has failed again” over the course of contemporary events? We heard it during the Great ...

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    • The New Geography of American Prosperity
    • By: Meredith Whitney
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Meredith Whitney shot to fame in 2007 when her warnings of a looming finanical crisis proved prescient. In her first book, she expands upon her biggest call since the financial crisis....

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    • A New Vision of How a Dynamic-Growth Economy Can Work for Everyone
    • By: Lawrence C. Marsh
    • Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • While many books promote redistribution as an issue of fairness, Lawrence C. Marsh's Optimal Money Flow explicitly sets aside the fairness issue to argue instead that redistribution is imperative for economic efficiency, stability, and maximum economic growth....

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    • How Minority Entrepreneurship Can Overcome America's Racial and Economic Divides
    • By: Alfredo Ortiz
    • Narrated by: Million Quinteros
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • These days in America, racism is sporadic, not systemic. Racism is universally viewed as one of the worst characteristics a person can have. Activists invoke it so often because it is such an effective cudgel....

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    • How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It
    • By: Heather Boushey
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • From one of Washington’s most influential voices on economic policy, a lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not just fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and stability....

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    • How Alan Greenspan Did In Our Jobs, Savings, and Retirement Plans
    • By: William D. Rutherford
    • Narrated by: Bryan Earl
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The U.S. economy experienced one of the productive and prosperous decades of its history in the 1990s. Then, very quickly and with little warning, it ground to a devastating halt....

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    • Lost and Found: Restoring our Middle Class Before the World Blows By
    • By: Peter D. Kiernan
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Our educated, skilled, and motivated middle class was the cornerstone of America's postwar economic might, but the country's dynamic core has struggled....

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    • Economics for a Planet in Peril
    • By: Peter A. Victor
    • Narrated by: Robert Lawrenson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Earth is in overshoot. The cumulative impact of eight billion humans, combined with the relentless pursuit of economic growth in the name of "progress", has stressed the planet beyond its limits. We must act now....

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