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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,430 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,976 ratings
    • Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....

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    • How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
    • By: Christopher Leonard
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 902 ratings
    • If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press....

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    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,778 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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    • The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
    • By: Scott Galloway
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,418 ratings
    • Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. They're wrong....

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    • How Prosperity Evolves
    • By: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,453 ratings
    • Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. The pessimists insist that we will reach a turning point and things will get worse. But they have been saying this for 200 years....

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    • The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
    • By: Bethany McLean
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 22 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,971 ratings
    • The definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters....

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    • By: Henry Hazlitt
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,900 ratings
    • Called by H.L. Mencken, "one of the few economists in history who could really write," Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliant but concise work....

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    • By: Ray Dalio
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles—whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide—shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well....

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    • What Killed Capitalism
    • By: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Big tech has replaced capitalism's twin pillars—markets and profit—with its platforms and rents. With every click and scroll, we labor like serfs to increase its power....

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    • The Making of Behavioral Economics
    • By: Richard H. Thaler
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,443 ratings
    • Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals....

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    • The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    • By: Naomi Klein
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,020 ratings
    • The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq....

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    • A Financial History of the World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-08
    • Language: English
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    • Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance....

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    • The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
    • By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,868 ratings
    • A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter....

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    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,118 ratings
    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
    • By: Kurt Andersen
    • Narrated by: Kurt Andersen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,170 ratings
    • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change - and charts a way back to the future....

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    • The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
    • By: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 432 ratings
    • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world....

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