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Temp
- How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
- By: Louis Hyman
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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The untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy" - how deliberate decisions made by consultants and CEOs in the '50s and '60s upended the stability of the workplace and the lives of millions of working men and women in postwar America....
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Prepare to be mad. then Prepare to vote
- By Bryan on 05-29-19
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Temp
- How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-21-18
- Language: English
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The untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy" - how deliberate decisions made by consultants and CEOs in the '50s and '60s upended the stability of the workplace and the lives of millions of working men and women in postwar America....
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Give People Money
- How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
- By: Annie Lowrey
- Narrated by: Annie Lowrey
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time....
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Liberal whine-fest rather than serious discussion
- By Jason on 07-25-18
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Give People Money
- How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
- Narrated by: Annie Lowrey
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-10-18
- Language: English
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Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time....
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Bad Samaritans
- 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
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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....
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Not Convinced!
- By Oldtimer on 11-20-08
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Bad Samaritans
- The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Jim Bond
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-18-08
- Language: English
- 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....
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The Price of Inequality
- How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
- By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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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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One side is never enough....
- By Michael on 08-08-12
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The Price of Inequality
- How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-11-12
- Language: English
- 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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End the Fed
- By: Ron Paul
- Narrated by: Bob Craig
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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Most people don't give a second thought to the Federal Reserve, but they should. In End the Fed, Ron Paul argues that the Fed is both corrupt and dangerously autonomous....
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Very clear and understandable
- By Jonnie on 09-19-09
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End the Fed
- Narrated by: Bob Craig
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-16-09
- Language: English
- Most people don't give a second thought to the Federal Reserve, but they should. In End the Fed, Ron Paul argues that the Fed is both corrupt and dangerously autonomous....
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The Captured Economy
- 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
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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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Interesting thesis, mediocre narrator
- By Peter Schrier on 06-16-21
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The Captured Economy
- How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-28-18
- Language: English
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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 Chile Project
- The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
- By: Sebastian Edwards
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the story of how the neoliberal economic model came to an end in 2021, when Gabriel Boric was elected president, vowing that "If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave"....
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Combining history, ethnography, politic
- By John Murphy on 06-05-23
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The Chile Project
- The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-23-23
- Language: English
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In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the story of how the neoliberal economic model came to an end in 2021, when Gabriel Boric was elected president, vowing that "If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave"....
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The Affluent Society
- By: John Kenneth Galbraith
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world, and lays bare the hazards of complacence about economic inequity....
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Good 20+ years after the 40th anniversary edition
- By Munair on 06-18-22
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The Affluent Society
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 12-11-09
- Language: English
- Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world, and lays bare the hazards of complacence about economic inequity....
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The Forgotten Depression
- 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
- By: James Grant
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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In 1920-1921, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it, implementing policies that most 21st-century economists would call backward....
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Best thinking-sharpener I know of
- By Philo on 03-11-20
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The Forgotten Depression
- 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-03-19
- Language: English
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In 1920-1921, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it, implementing policies that most 21st-century economists would call backward....
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Collusion
- How Central Bankers Rigged the World
- By: Nomi Prins
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
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In this exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance....
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Fair history survey, lazy characterizations
- By Philo on 05-09-18
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Collusion
- How Central Bankers Rigged the World
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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In this exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance....
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Unintended Consequences
- Why Everything You’ve Been Told about the Economy Is Wrong
- By: Edward Conard
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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According to Unintended Consequences, the conventional wisdom masks the real causes of our economic disruption....
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Trickle down on steroids
- By Michael on 09-05-12
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Unintended Consequences
- Why Everything You’ve Been Told about the Economy Is Wrong
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 06-07-12
- Language: English
- According to Unintended Consequences, the conventional wisdom masks the real causes of our economic disruption....
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Keynes
- The Return of the Master
- By: Robert Skidelsky
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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The ideas of John Maynard Keynes have never been more timely....
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Suprisingly Informative
- By michael on 02-21-12
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Keynes
- The Return of the Master
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-30-09
- Language: English
- The ideas of John Maynard Keynes have never been more timely....
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Ours Was the Shining Future
- The Story of the American Dream
- By: David Leonhardt
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times’s “The Morning” newsletter provides a clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the death of the American Dream....
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A poignant analysis of our present situation
- By Beth on 11-02-23
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Ours Was the Shining Future
- The Story of the American Dream
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-24-23
- Language: English
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times’s “The Morning” newsletter provides a clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the death of the American Dream....
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The Great Deformation
- The Corruption of Capitalism in America
- By: David Stockman
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
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A coruscating, brilliantly insightful exegesis of where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored....
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Loads of Information but problematic writing
- By Michael on 04-12-13
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The Great Deformation
- The Corruption of Capitalism in America
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-02-13
- Language: English
- A coruscating, brilliantly insightful exegesis of where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored....
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When More Is Not Better
- Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency
- By: Roger L. Martin
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Filled with keen economic insight and advice for citizens, executives, policymakers, and educators, When More Is Not Better is the must-listen guide for saving democratic capitalism....
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Narrator Detracts from Excellent Book
- By Andrea S.F. Seabrook on 10-11-20
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When More Is Not Better
- Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 09-29-20
- Language: English
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Filled with keen economic insight and advice for citizens, executives, policymakers, and educators, When More Is Not Better is the must-listen guide for saving democratic capitalism....
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Understandable Economics
- Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know
- By: Howard Yaruss
- Narrated by: Howard Yaruss
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Understandable Economics provides the context, tools, and foundational knowledge listeners need to thoroughly understand our economy, determine which policies would work best, and champion those policies effectively....
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Sophomoric and stilted
- By : on 02-06-23
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Understandable Economics
- Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know
- Narrated by: Howard Yaruss
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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Understandable Economics provides the context, tools, and foundational knowledge listeners need to thoroughly understand our economy, determine which policies would work best, and champion those policies effectively....
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The Economists' Hour
- False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
- By: Binyamin Appelbaum
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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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....
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One-sided ridicule of economists
- By Fountain of Chris on 09-06-19
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The Economists' Hour
- False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-03-19
- Language: English
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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....
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Currency Wars
- The Making of the Next Global Crises
- By: James Rickards
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar....
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don't be misled
- By peter on 04-01-12
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Currency Wars
- The Making of the Next Global Crises
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-07-11
- Language: English
- In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar....
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Dealing with China
- An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
- By: Henry M. Paulson
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
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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....
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A Valuable Book on China
- By Michael Moore on 09-04-15
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Dealing with China
- An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-14-15
- Language: English
- 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....
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Adrift
- America in 100 Charts
- By: Scott Galloway
- Narrated by: Scott Galloway
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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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....
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Quick & Informative
- By W. Carillion on 10-06-22
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Adrift
- America in 100 Charts
- Narrated by: Scott Galloway
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-27-22
- Language: English
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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....
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