US Economy

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    • What the "Experts" Got Wrong About the Global Economy
    • By: Mark Weisbrot
    • Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Find out....

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    • And Everything Else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know About Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America
    • By: Joshua Holland
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • AlterNet editor Joshua Holland demolishes the Right's biggest and most outrageous myths about the economy....

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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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    • 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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    • How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation - and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Riva Froymovich
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 04-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Generation Y faces the bleakest economic landscape in modern history....

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    • The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan
    • By: Paul Krugman
    • Narrated by: Sam Freed
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • With huge budget surpluses just ahead, the question of whether to cut taxes has shifted to when and by how much?...

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy
    • By: Dean Baker
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Twice in the early 21st century, the U.S. economy plunged into a recession due to the collapse of a financial bubble....

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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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    • Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity
    • By: John B. Taylor
    • Narrated by: Ken Maxon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Leading economist John B. Taylor’s straightforward plan to rebuild America’s economic future by returning to its founding principles....

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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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    • 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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    • Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
    • By: Roger E. A. Farmer
    • Narrated by: John Curran
    • Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The financial crisis that crested in 2008 destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking that had guided policymakers for a generation. But what will take its place? Listen to find out....

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    • How Developing Economies Can Take Off
    • By: Justin Yifu Lin
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world....

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    • America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership
    • By: Clyde Prestowitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China's growing power poses and how it must be confronted....

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    • Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It
    • By: Richard Vague
    • Narrated by: Charles Kabala
    • Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth....

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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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    • How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
    • By: Dalton Conley
    • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable....

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    • How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
    • By: Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Paul Swartz
    • Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • When turmoil hits, executives and investors face notoriously unreliable macroeconomic forecasts, whipsawing data, and contradictory opinions. Are disruptions transient and ephemeral-or permanent and structural?

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    • How the Return of Statism Is Transforming the World
    • By: Joshua Kurlantzick
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Joshua Kurlantzick ranges across the world and argues that the increase in state capitalism across the globe has, on balance, contributed to a decline in democracy....

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