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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 209 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy and the Way to Renew Our Broken System
    • By: Raymond Baker
    • Narrated by: Dave Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Our current democratic capitalist system is close to imploding. This book is the first to reveal the secret financial system dominating capitalism today and shows how we can create accountability to restore our democracy....

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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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    • 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....

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    • Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does
    • By: George Gilder
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • Why do conservatives have such a hard time winning the economic debate in the court of public opinion? Simple, George Gilder says: Conservatives misunderstand economics....

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    • How to Finance the Next American Century
    • By: Richard Duncan
    • Narrated by: Chris Reilly
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century, economist and best-selling author Richard Duncan lays out a farsighted strategy to maximize the United States' unmatched financial and technological potential....

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    • How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
    • By: Nick Timiraos
    • Narrated by: Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs....

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    • By: Ludwig von Mises
    • Narrated by: Millian Quinteros
    • Length: 17 hrs
    • Release date: 05-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Ludwig von Mises truly was an intellectual giant among men. He was perhaps the greatest economist of the 20th century and a tireless advocate for political liberalism and laissez-faire. His work, based on the study of human action, transcends both economics and social theory....

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    • A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future - and the Challenge for America
    • By: James Kynge
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • "Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe....

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    • The Next Economy and America’s Future
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert Reich
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 643 ratings
    • While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which wealth is increasingly concentrated at the top....

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