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    • How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation
    • By: James Bessen
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • James Bessen presents an approach to reinvigorating economic competition that doesn’t break up corporate giants, but compels them to share their technology, data, and knowledge....

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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 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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    • An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
    • By: Henry M. Paulson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • 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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    • Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
    • By: Richard Heinberg
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits....

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    • Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 284 ratings
    • The United States has two separate banking systems today - one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else....

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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 Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
    • By: Angus Deaton
    • Narrated by: Angus Deaton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton shares candid reflections on the economist’s craft....

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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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    • 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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    • The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
    • By: Michael Reid
    • Narrated by: Michael Healy
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030....

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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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    • 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 1,764 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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    • How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
    • By: Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Paul Swartz
    • Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When turmoil hits, executives and investors face notoriously unreliable macroeconomic forecasts, whipsawing data, and contradictory opinions. Are disruptions transient and ephemeral-or permanent and structural?

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
    • By: Linda Yueh
    • Narrated by: Linda Yueh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Acclaimed economist and BBC broadcaster Linda Yueh profiles the great economic minds who focused on the big questions: growth, innovation, and the nature of markets....

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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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