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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 View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets
    • By: James A. Fok
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In Financial Cold War, market structure and geopolitical finance expert James Fok explores the nuances of China-US relations from the perspective of the financial markets....

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    • Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy’s Only Hope
    • By: John Allison
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 332 ratings
    • Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? Answer: no....

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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 489 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 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 45 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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    • How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
    • By: Louis Hyman
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • 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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    • The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy
    • By: Teresa Ghilarducci, E. J. Dionne Jr.
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the notion of dignified retirement for all.

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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 19 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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    • The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
    • By: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Graham Vick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • In After the Music Stopped, Blinder delivers a masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we must do to recover from it....

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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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    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Eric Rauchway
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures....

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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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    • A Citizen's Guide to the Economy: Revised and Expanded Edition
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Brian Emerson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • Thomas Sowell has a different idea about how economics should be taught. With this groundbreaking introduction to economics, Sowell has thrown out the graphs, statistics, and jargon. Learning economics, he believes, should be relaxing - and even enjoyable....

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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 197 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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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 55 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The appearance of the famous (and massive) volumes of Rothbard's Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought in a new edition is cause for great celebration. Every paragraph bursts with intellectual energy and the author's fiery passion....

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    • 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....

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    • The Corruption of Capitalism in America
    • By: David Stockman
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 340 ratings
    • A coruscating, brilliantly insightful exegesis of where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored....

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    • America's Coming Bankruptcy - How to Save Yourself and Your Country
    • By: Peter D. Schiff
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 728 ratings
    • In The Real Crash, New York Times best-selling author Peter D. Schiff argues that America is enjoying a government-inflated bubble, one that reality will explode... with disastrous consequences....

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