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    • Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
    • By: Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 490 ratings
    • Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises....

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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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    • 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
    • By: James Grant
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • 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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    • Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy....

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    • 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....

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    • 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....

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    • The Story of the American Dream
    • By: David Leonhardt
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • 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 Last Conservative
    • By: Jennifer Burns
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century. In Milton Friedman, historian Jennifer Burns tells Friedman’s extraordinary story with the nuance it deserves....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • 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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    • A History
    • By: Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 975 ratings
    • From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen....

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    • 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 119 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....

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    • Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change
    • By: Ellen Ruppel Shell
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In a wide-ranging narrative, Shell reveals how work is essential to our flourishing and pyschological well-being - and how so many of the avenues to well-paid and meaningful work will be challenged in the years ahead....

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    • 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....

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    • 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....

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    • By: John Kenneth Galbraith
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • 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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    • Monopolies and the Death of Competition
    • By: Jonathan Tepper, Denise Hearn
    • Narrated by: Pamela Almand
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 225 ratings
    • The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives....

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