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    • How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
    • By: Judith Stein
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory....

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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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    • An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
    • By: J. Bradford DeLong
    • Narrated by: Allan Aquino
    • Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • From one of the world’s leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied....

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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 41 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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    • 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 978 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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    • The Making of the Next Global Crises
    • By: James Rickards
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,765 ratings
    • 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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    • The Lives and Ideas of The Great Thinkers
    • By: Mark Skousen
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics—the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today’s rigorous social science....

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    • Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works
    • By: Timothy Taylor
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Economics isn't just about numbers: It's about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists....

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    • How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • While America is at a crossroads regarding its economic future, many of us don’t fully understand how we got here. In this powerful and accessible book, Thom Hartmann demystifies neoliberalism and outlines the impact that it has had on America....

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    • Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality
    • By: James Kwak, Simon Johnson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and half truths....

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    • How Financial Forces Shape Our Lives & the World Around Us
    • By: Sebastian Bunney
    • Narrated by: Russell Newton
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Do you ever feel like you're treading water, struggling to keep up with the rising tide of expenses? From groceries to housing to transportation, your cost of living continues to climb while your wages struggle to keep up.

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    • The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
    • By: Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, Henry M. Paulson
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis - from why it happened to where we are now....

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    • Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
    • By: Keyu Jin
    • Narrated by: Jenapher Zheng
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • World-renowned economist and professor at the London School of Economics Keyu Jin presents a myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy....

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    • A Cure for Capitalism
    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society....

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    • Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,322 ratings
    • The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day....

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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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    • 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
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • 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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