US Economy

Middle class Economic policy Economic inequality Interest rate Wall Street Global Financial Crisis Deflation Capital Market
41 - 60 of 435 results
Product List
    • By: Ruchir Sharma
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 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.

    Regular price: $19.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.49 or 1 credit

    • Your Shortcut to the Most Important Ideas on Capitalism, Finance, and the Global Economy
    • By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism, and the global economy....

    Regular price: $25.78 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.78 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • By: Enrico Moretti
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 630 ratings
    • Today, there are three Americas. For the past 30 years, the three Americas have been growing apart at an accelerating rate. This divergence is one the most important developments in the history of the US and is reshaping the very fabric of our society....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
    • By: Rana Foroohar
    • Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 496 ratings
    • Through colorful stories of both “Takers”, those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers”, businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward....

    Regular price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    • An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
    • By: Henry M. Paulson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • Henry M. Paulson, Jr., former secretary of the US Treasury and CEO of Goldman Sachs, delivers a behind-the-scenes account of China's rise as an economic superpower....

    Regular price: $30.41 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $30.41 or 1 credit

    • Why Everything You’ve Been Told about the Economy Is Wrong
    • By: Edward Conard
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • According to Unintended Consequences, the conventional wisdom masks the real causes of our economic disruption....

    Regular price: $16.34 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $16.34 or 1 credit

    • 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 24 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....

    Regular price: $23.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $23.99 or 1 credit

    • The Return of the Master
    • By: Robert Skidelsky
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • The ideas of John Maynard Keynes have never been more timely....

    Regular price: $16.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $16.95 or 1 credit

    • 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....

    Regular price: $20.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.00 or 1 credit

    • False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
    • By: Binyamin Appelbaum
    • Narrated by: Dan Bittner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • In this fascinating character-driven history, a New York Times editorial writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist spotlights the American economists who championed the rise of markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world....

    Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    • America in 100 Charts
    • By: Scott Galloway
    • Narrated by: Scott Galloway
    • Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 328 ratings
    • From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation—and how we got here....

    Regular price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    • 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....

    Regular price: $25.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.00 or 1 credit

    • The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
    • By: Michael Reid
    • Narrated by: Michael Healy
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030....

    Regular price: $19.34 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.34 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Neoliberalism & Global Order
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones
    • Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • In Profit Over People, Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, tracing the history of neoliberalism....

    Regular price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    • 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....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Debt, Money, and the New World Order
    • By: Philip Coggan
    • Narrated by: George Backman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-22-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • For the past 40 years western economies have splurged on debt....

    Regular price: $22.46 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $22.46 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $19.63 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.63 or 1 credit

    • 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 46 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....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
    • By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
    • Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving. But Sachs turns his attention back home in The Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for every American....

    Regular price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    • And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts
    • By: Hunter Lewis
    • Narrated by: Bruce Lorie
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In responding to the financial crash of 2008, both the Bush administration and the Obama administration have relied on prescriptions developed by John Maynard Keynes....

    Regular price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.95 or 1 credit