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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 to Bring Wealth to America's Poor
    • By: Michael D. Tanner
    • Narrated by: Todd Barsness
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom of both liberals and conservatives, Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, looks at the reasons for poverty in America and offers a detailed agenda for increasing wealth, incomes, and opportunity....

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    • A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All
    • By: Martin Sandbu
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The Economics of Belonging argues that we should step back and take a fresh look at the root causes of our current challenges. In this engaging book, Martin Sandbu argues that economics remains at the heart of our widening inequality....

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    • Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom
    • By: Bob Woodward
    • Narrated by: James Naughton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-00
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal Reserve and its enigmatic chairman, Alan Greenspan, operate. What do they do? Why precisely do they do it? Who is Greenspan?...

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • By: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

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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 16 ratings
    • Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton shares candid reflections on the economist’s craft....

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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 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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    • 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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    • Smashing the Errors of America's Most Famous Keynesian
    • By: Robert P. Murphy
    • Narrated by: Thomas E Woods Jr
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • This book is a relentless assault on the ideas of Krugman and on the Keynesian economics that would have the government direct the economy in order to maximize prosperity and prevent recessions....

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    • Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
    • By: Nouriel Roubini
    • Narrated by: Kamran Khan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • The bestselling author of CRISIS ECONOMICS argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats....

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    • How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
    • By: Edward Conard
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Challenging the arguments of liberal economists like Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, Edward Conard reveals the truth about the income inequality panic....

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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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    • 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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    • Fifty Years of Economic Folly - and the Stark Choices Ahead
    • By: Dambisa Moyo
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In How the West Was Lost, the New York Times best-selling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the economic supremacy of the West....

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    • America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
    • By: Timothy Noah
    • Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal....

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    • A Guide to His Economic Thought
    • By: Eamonn Butler
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • One of the great economists of the 20th century, Milton Friedman has always challenged the prevailing economic orthodoxy....

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    • How to Survive the Demise of the U.S. Debt Market
    • By: Michael G. Pento
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Backed by a wealth of historical and economic data, Mr. Pento examines how the policies followed by both the Federal Reserve and private industry have led, inexorably, to the impending disaster, and he exposes alarming parallels between the US and European debt crises....

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    • How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
    • By: Clara E. Mattei
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval from below....

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