Financial History

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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 3,769 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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    • 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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,340 ratings
    • 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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    • A History of Financial Speculation
    • By: Edward Chancellor
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • Devil Take the Hindmost is a lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to the present day. Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world....

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    • By: John Kenneth Galbraith
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • With incomparable wisdom, skill, and wit, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith traces the history of the major speculative episodes in our economy over the last three centuries....

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    • A Global History of Financial Bubbles
    • By: William Quinn, John D. Turner
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts, and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles....

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    • Understanding the Past to Forecast the Future
    • By: Mark J. Higgins CFA CFP®
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Investors who ignore the past are lost in the present and blind to the future. Investing in U.S. Financial History reveals that there is almost no financial event that is unprecedented.

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • 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 Real Story of Interest
    • By: Edward Chancellor
    • Narrated by: Luis Soto
    • Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • In this enriching volume, Chancellor explores the history of interest and its essential function in determining how capital is allocated and priced....

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    • Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
    • By: Mark Skousen
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 654 ratings
    • The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history....

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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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 701 ratings
    • 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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    • A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929
    • By: Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • The New York Times best seller that tells the story of an overheated stock market and the financial disaster that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. A riveting living history about Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929....

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    • A Chronological Analysis of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger's Conglomerate Masterpiece
    • By: Adam J. Mead
    • Narrated by: John Bradford
    • Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • For the first time the complete financial history of Berkshire Hathaway is available under one cover in chronological format. Beginning at the origins of the predecessor companies in the textile industry, the listener can examine the development of the modern-day conglomerate....

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    • What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It
    • By: Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, Elizabeth Ames
    • Narrated by: Carol Monda
    • Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It explains what’s behind the worst inflationary storm in more than forty years—one that is dominating the headlines and shaking Americans by their pocketbooks....

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    • A History of Financial Crises
    • By: Robert Z. Aliber, Charles P. Kindleberger
    • Narrated by: Alister Austin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • In this thoroughly revised edition following the latest crises to hit international markets, economist Robert Z. Aliber introduces the concept that global financial crises in recent years are not independent events, but symptomatic of an inherent instability in the international system....

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    • Federal Aviation Administration
    • By: Federal Aviation Administration
    • Narrated by: Airman Audio
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Aviation Instructor’s Handbook was developed by the Flight Standards Service, Airman Testing Standards Branch, in cooperation with aviation educators and industry to help beginning instructors understand and apply the fundamentals of instruction....

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    • Revised and Expanded Third Edition
    • By: Robert J. Shiller
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • With high stock and bond prices and the rising cost of housing, the post-subprime boom may well turn out to be another illustration of Shiller's influential argument that psychologically driven volatility is an inherent characteristic of all asset markets....

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    • Reflections on Financial Crises
    • By: Timothy F. Geithner
    • Narrated by: Timothy F. Geithner
    • Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,262 ratings
    • Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner helped the United States navigate the worst financial crisis....

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