Bestsellers
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Empire of AI
- Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
- By: Karen Hao
- Narrated by: Karen Hao
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy.
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Well-researched. Timely. Informative. Karen is brilliant and kind!
- By Kahlil Andrews on 05-25-25
By: Karen Hao
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Apple in China
- The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
- By: Patrick McGee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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This book rivets with its portrayal of how Apple allowed itself to become dependent on China for a huge percentage of its manufacturing, making it vulnerable and unwittingly laying the groundwork for the Asian superpower to rival the US in technological expertise.
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Performance is so robotic it’s distracting.
- By robert Campbell on 05-29-25
By: Patrick McGee
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....
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Ray Dalio, Chinas New Minister of Propoganda
- By Dudley on 01-04-22
By: Ray Dalio
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Chip War
- The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology
- By: Chris Miller
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips.
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Great history, but could poor narration
- By Lily Wong on 10-26-22
By: Chris Miller
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Our Dollar, Your Problem
- An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
- By: Kenneth Rogoff
- Narrated by: Evan Sibley
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached today’s lofty pinnacle without a certain amount of good luck.
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Interesting, Well Written
- By Nancy on 06-27-25
By: Kenneth Rogoff
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Tower of Basel
- The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World
- By: Adam LeBor
- Narrated by: John Mawson
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world's most secretive global financial institution.
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How Powerful are the Banks ?
- By StBarth on 07-17-25
By: Adam LeBor
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Empire of AI
- Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
- By: Karen Hao
- Narrated by: Karen Hao
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy.
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Well-researched. Timely. Informative. Karen is brilliant and kind!
- By Kahlil Andrews on 05-25-25
By: Karen Hao
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Apple in China
- The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
- By: Patrick McGee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
This book rivets with its portrayal of how Apple allowed itself to become dependent on China for a huge percentage of its manufacturing, making it vulnerable and unwittingly laying the groundwork for the Asian superpower to rival the US in technological expertise.
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Performance is so robotic it’s distracting.
- By robert Campbell on 05-29-25
By: Patrick McGee
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....
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Ray Dalio, Chinas New Minister of Propoganda
- By Dudley on 01-04-22
By: Ray Dalio
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Chip War
- The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology
- By: Chris Miller
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips.
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Great history, but could poor narration
- By Lily Wong on 10-26-22
By: Chris Miller
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Our Dollar, Your Problem
- An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
- By: Kenneth Rogoff
- Narrated by: Evan Sibley
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached today’s lofty pinnacle without a certain amount of good luck.
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Interesting, Well Written
- By Nancy on 06-27-25
By: Kenneth Rogoff
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Tower of Basel
- The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World
- By: Adam LeBor
- Narrated by: John Mawson
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world's most secretive global financial institution.
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How Powerful are the Banks ?
- By StBarth on 07-17-25
By: Adam LeBor
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman
- By: John Perkins
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire....
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Uninformed and largely fictitious
- By Trevor Burnham on 05-31-05
By: John Perkins
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King Dollar
- The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency
- By: Paul Blustein
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy—and what that means for America and the world.
By: Paul Blustein
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Collusion
- How Central Bankers Rigged the World
- By: Nomi Prins
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In this exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance....
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Fair history survey, lazy characterizations
- By Philo on 05-09-18
By: Nomi Prins
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The War Below
- Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
- By: Ernest Scheyder
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The War Below reveals the explosive brawl among industry titans, conservationists, community groups, policymakers, and many others over whether the habitats of rare plants, sensitive ecosystems, Indigenous holy sites, and other places should be dug up for their riches.
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Misses its chance at greatness
- By B L on 09-16-24
By: Ernest Scheyder
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Underground Empire
- How America Weaponized the World Economy
- By: Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems....
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Good summary
- By Medz on 01-28-25
By: Henry Farrell, and others
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How the World Ran Out of Everything
- Inside the Global Supply Chain
- By: Peter S. Goodman
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In How the World Ran Out of Everything, award-winning journalist Peter S. Goodman reveals the fascinating innerworkings of our supply chain and the factors that have led to its constant, dangerous vulnerability.
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Must Read!
- By Adam W Jones on 10-05-24
By: Peter S. Goodman
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....
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This guy's writing style is trash
- By L YS on 10-06-24
By: Frank Dikötter
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Adventure Capitalist
- The Ultimate Road Trip
- By: Jim Rogers
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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It's the ultimate road trip....
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New Perspective
- By Dan on 08-27-04
By: Jim Rogers
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The New China Playbook
- Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
- By: Keyu Jin
- Narrated by: Jenapher Zheng
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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World-renowned economist and professor at the London School of Economics Keyu Jin presents a myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy....
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Good content but missing important information
- By Anonymous User on 07-03-23
By: Keyu Jin
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This Changes Everything
- Capitalism vs. the Climate
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
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In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care....
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Didactic and preachy... and I agree with her
- By plau on 09-25-16
By: Naomi Klein
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Value(s)
- Building a Better World for All
- By: Mark Carney
- Narrated by: Mark Carney
- Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
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As an economist and former banker, Mark Carney has spent his life in various financial roles, in both the public and private sector. Value(s) is a meditation on his experiences that examines the short-comings and challenges of the market in the past decade....
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Shallow and Euro-centric
- By Ian on 06-02-21
By: Mark Carney
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Permanent Distortion
- How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever
- By: Nomi Prins
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting exposé of a permanent financial dystopia, its causes, and real-world consequences....
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The I hate Trump rant
- By Whitney J Brown on 10-16-22
By: Nomi Prins
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Other People's Money
- The Real Business of Finance
- By: John Kay
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates....
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Listened twice. Everyone must read this.
- By Tristan on 01-18-16
By: John Kay
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How Things Are Made
- A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing
- By: Tim Minshall
- Narrated by: Tim Minshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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An illuminating tour through the manufacturing world and its seismic influence on our lives, from internationally renowned expert Tim Minshall.
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as deep as google search allows it to be
- By Biorelevant on 06-08-25
By: Tim Minshall
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Rwanda, Inc.
- How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World
- By: Patricia Crisafulli, Andrea Redmond
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Eighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, yet left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround....
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Paul Kagame is a dictator, not a savior.
- By Amazon Customer on 05-21-21
By: Patricia Crisafulli, and others
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Why the West Rules - for Now
- The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
- By: Ian Morris
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed....
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Compelling and infuriating take at World History
- By Skeptical on 09-11-11
By: Ian Morris
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Kleptopia
- How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
- By: Tom Burgis
- Narrated by: Tom Burgis
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In this shocking, meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, an award-winning investigative journalist exposes “capitalism’s monster”—global kleptocracy—and reveals how it is corrupting the world around us....
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Lazy Journalism in long narrative form
- By Jeremy on 02-14-21
By: Tom Burgis
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The Absent Superpower
- The Shale Revolution and a World Without America
- By: Peter Zeihan
- Narrated by: Toby Sheets
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The world is changing in ways most of us find incomprehensible....
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Only worthwhile if you're curious about updates
- By Anon on 02-27-18
By: Peter Zeihan
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The Power to Change
- Stoic Strategies to Transform Your Life
- By: Chuck Chakrapani
- Narrated by: Eric Sigmundsson
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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The Power to Change shows how to use Stoic principles to create a successful life and provides a clear road map and directions to get there. It will guide you in designing a life that flows well and dealing with problems that arise in everyday living.
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Very useful and practical
- By ska on 07-27-25
By: Chuck Chakrapani
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The Coming Collapse of China
- By: Gordon G. Chang
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon....
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Outdated
- By Larson Family on 07-17-21
By: Gordon G. Chang
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Understanding Global Trade
- By: Elhanan Helpman
- Narrated by: Kevin Charles Minatrea
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Global trade is of vital interest to citizens as well as policymakers, yet it is widely misunderstood....
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Excellent
- By Oseghale Esezobor on 04-16-16
By: Elhanan Helpman
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Street Smarts
- Adventures on the Road and in the Markets
- By: Jim Rogers
- Narrated by: Michael Bybee
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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In his engaging memoir Street Smarts, Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure, from his early years....
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Another Self Indulgent Memoir by Hedge Fund Mgr
- By Timothy McCarthy on 01-17-18
By: Jim Rogers
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Beeronomics
- How Beer Explains the World
- By: Johan Swinnen, Devin Briski
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Beeronomics covers world history through the lens of beer, exploring the common role that beer taxation has played throughout and providing context for recognizable brands....
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Beer is our world.
- By thfiv on 02-04-20
By: Johan Swinnen, and others
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The Great Rebalancing
- Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy
- By: Michael Pettis
- Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite....
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A Way The Average American Can Understand How Their Household Is Effected
- By Jerome L. on 11-27-22
By: Michael Pettis