Future Economics

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    • Life After Capitalism
    • By: Peter Frase
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down....

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    • How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
    • By: Mauro F. Guillén
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 374 ratings
    • The world you know is about to end - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends....

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,545 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
    • By: Greg McKeown
    • Narrated by: Greg McKeown
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20,417 ratings
    • Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter....

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    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 964 ratings
    • The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable....

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    • Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable....

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    • How 50 Successful Companies Used AI and Machine Learning to Solve Problems
    • By: Bernard Marr, Matt Ward - contributor
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • Artificial Intelligence in Practice is a fascinating look into how companies use AI and machine learning to solve problems. Presenting 50 case studies of actual situations....

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    • The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
    • By: Ian Morris
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed....

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    • Omnibus Edition
    • By: J. Adam
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • This is the omnibus edition that contains all stories from volumes 1-3. These tales explore what would really happen if the modern world collapsed,...

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    • By: Alec Ross
    • Narrated by: Alec Ross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,051 ratings
    • Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next 10 years....

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    • Democratic Socialism-American Style
    • By: Kate Aronoff - editor, Peter Dreier - editor, Michael Kazin - editor
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Kyle Tait
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Not since the Great Depression have so many Americans questioned the fundamental tenets of capitalism and expressed openness to a socialist alternative. We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism-American Style offers a road map to making this alternative a reality....

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    • Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
    • By: Liz Carlisle
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • The story of the "Lentil Underground" begins on a 280-acre homestead rooted in America's Great Plains: the Oien family farm. Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness threatened these small farmers....

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    • Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
    • By: Sebastian Mallaby
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 622 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of More Money Than God comes the astonishingly frank and intimate story of Silicon Valley’s dominant venture-capital firms—and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation and the global economy....

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    • Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy
    • By: Scott Sumner
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It's happened before....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Partha Dasgupta
    • Narrated by: Gayle Hendrix
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life and offer solutions to them, too. He shows how economics uncovers these processes, finds explanations for them, and how it forms policies and solutions....

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    • The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
    • By: Karen Petrou
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Engine of Inequality reveals how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy....

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    • Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
    • By: Mary Robinson, Caitríona Palmer - with
    • Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Climate Justice is an urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward....

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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 38 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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