Corporate History

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    • How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
    • By: Adam Winkler
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital....

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    • A History of Corporations
    • By: William Magnuson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley....

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    • The History of American Business Enterprise
    • By: Richard N. Langlois
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 31 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Richard Langlois offers a comprehensive and nuanced reframing and reassessment of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era.

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    • 2nd Edition
    • By: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Narrated by: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Want to make sense of the US Constitution? This new edition walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and how they have guided legislators, judges, and presidents - and sparked ongoing debates along the way....

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    • How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
    • By: Walker Deibel
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,003 ratings
    • Entrepreneurs have a problem: startups. Almost all startups either fail or never truly reach a sustainable size. Despite the popularity of entrepreneurship, we haven't engineered a better way to start - until now....

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    • The Rise and Fall of SST Records
    • By: Jim Ruland
    • Narrated by: Jim Ruland
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • In Corporate Rock Sucks, music journalist Jim Ruland relays the unvarnished story of SST Records. SST was the most popular indie label by the mid-80s - until a tsunami of legal jeopardy, financial peril, and dysfunctional management brought the empire tumbling down....

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    • A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 958 ratings
    • Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

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    • The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
    • By: Walter Kiechel III
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 402 ratings
    • The Lords of Strategy provides listeners with a deeper understanding of the world they compete in, and a sharper eye for what works when forging strategy....

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    • New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
    • By: Kim Phillips-Fein
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible....

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    • The Bankers Who Broke the World
    • By: Liaquat Ahamed
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,676 ratings
    • Offering a new understanding of the global nature of financial crises, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have....

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    • How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
    • By: Nick Robins
    • Narrated by: Simon Barber
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational....

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    • Alexander von Humboldt's New World
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,591 ratings
    • Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery....

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    • A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder
    • By: M. William Phelps
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 566 ratings
    • In the weeks that followed Mary's death, the grief-stricken family received startling news from the medical examiner: Mary had been deliberately poisoned with colchicine....

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    • How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
    • By: Hannah Farber
    • Narrated by: Linda Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.

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    • Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports
    • By: Guy Lawson
    • Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Guy Lawson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of War Dogs exposes the inside story of disgraced fraudster turned undercover FBI informant Marty Blazer and the greatest scandal in the history of the NCAA.

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    • How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
    • By: John Temple
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,361 ratings
    • American Pain chronicles the rise and fall of this game-changing pill mill and how it helped tip the nation into its current opioid crisis....

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    • How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
    • By: W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 742 ratings
    • In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success....

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    • Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
    • By: Tom Burgis
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 301 ratings
    • Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage....

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    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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    • The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror
    • By: Erik Prince
    • Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,347 ratings
    • The founder of Blackwater offers the gripping, previously untold story of the world's most controversial military contractor....

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