Economic History United States

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    • By: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States....

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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
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    • The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational....

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    • Japan and the Art of Survival
    • By: David Pilling
    • Narrated by: Tim Andes Pabon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-14
    • Language: English
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    • In Bending Adversity, Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan....

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    • A History of the United States
    • By: Jonathan Levy
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
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    • A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present - and argues that we’ve reached yet another turning point that will define the era ahead....

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    • A History
    • By: Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
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    • From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen....

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    • Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
    • By: Naomi Klein
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
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    • In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich "Puertopians" are locked in a struggle over how to remake the island. Author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of politics and capitalism seek to undermine the nation's resilient vision for a recovery....

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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
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    • 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 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
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    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
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    • Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early 20th century....

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    • The Epic History of American Economic Power
    • By: John Steele Gordon
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
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    • Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States....

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    • The Golden Arches in Black America
    • By: Marcia Chatelain
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
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    • From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America....

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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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-10
    • Language: English
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    • From the bestselling author of Leviathan comes this sweeping narrative of one of America’s most historically rich industries....

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    • The History of Whaling in America
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: James Boles
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-07
    • Language: English
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    • This absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling....

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