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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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    • How the Quest for Financial Stability Led to Unconventional Monetary Practices
    • By: Dominic Haynes
    • Narrated by: Jeff Bower
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Whether you’re looking to deepen your knowledge of complex banking practices or simply learn more about central banking as it relates to your everyday life, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction and solid foundation for future study....

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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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    • 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 to Profit from the Economic Collapse
    • By: Peter D. Schiff
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 526 ratings
    • The economic and monetary disaster, which Peter Schiff warned of in the bestselling first edition of Crash Proof, is no longer hypothetical - it is here today....

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    • How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
    • By: James K. Galbraith
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Highly regarded economist James Galbraith presents a full-bore attack on the bankrupt economic policies of the Republican Party....

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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 203 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 Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
    • By: Dani Rodrik
    • Narrated by: James Conlan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works....

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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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    • 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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    • By: Enrico Moretti
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 630 ratings
    • Today, there are three Americas. For the past 30 years, the three Americas have been growing apart at an accelerating rate. This divergence is one the most important developments in the history of the US and is reshaping the very fabric of our society....

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    • Walmart's Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism
    • By: Rick Wartzman
    • Narrated by: Rick Wartzman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • How America’s biggest company began taking better care of its workers—and why such efforts will never be enough....

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    • The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
    • By: Nicholas Wapshott
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore the balance to economies gone awry....

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    • How Money and Debt Built the American Dream
    • By: R. Christopher Whalen
    • Narrated by: Jake Williams
    • Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Inflated examines this apparent conflict and makes the argument that such a world view is so ingrained in us that to expect the United States to live in a "deflated" world is simply unrealistic....

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    • Debt, Money, and the New World Order
    • By: Philip Coggan
    • Narrated by: George Backman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-22-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • For the past 40 years western economies have splurged on debt....

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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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    • 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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    • The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
    • By: Harold James
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart....

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