Global Economic History

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    • When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist system into a tailspin. The consequences of these mounting and intertwined crises will shape our future....

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    • Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies
    • By: William T. Vollmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Series: Carbon Ideologies, Book 2
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where "America's best friend" is not merely a fuel, but a "heritage"....

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    • Your Shortcut to the Most Important Ideas on Capitalism, Finance, and the Global Economy
    • By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism, and the global economy....

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    • The User's Guide
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works - in real-world terms....

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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Sven Beckert
    • Narrated by: Jim Frangione
    • Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 565 ratings
    • Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating audiobook tells the story of how European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry....

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    • An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters 2nd Edition
    • By: Pietra Rivoli
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Using a simple, everyday T-shirt as a lens through which to explore the business, economic, moral, and political complexities of globalization in a historical context, Travels encapsulates a number of complex issues into a single identifiable object that will strike a chord ....

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    • How America Weaponized the World Economy
    • By: Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • 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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    • The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
    • By: Nicholas Mulder
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early 20th century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war....

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    • Your Shortcut to the Most Important Ideas on Capitalism, Finance, and the Global Economy
    • By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Understand the greatest books in economics with the latest volume in the best-selling 50 Classics series. From Karl Marx to Naomi Klein, from The Wealth of Nations to Piketty's Capital....

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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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    • The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
    • By: Peter Zeihan
    • Narrated by: Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,958 ratings
    • Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Find out more....

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    • The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
    • By: Chrystia Freeland
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically....

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    • A Warning to the Global Middle Class
    • By: Joel Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism....

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    • How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
    • By: Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force....

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    • Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy
    • By: Mervyn King
    • Narrated by: Greg Wagland
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 416 ratings
    • In The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance....

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    • Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
    • By: Henry M. Paulson Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 460 ratings
    • More than an account about numbers and credit risks gone bad, On the Brink is a story about people and politics - all brought together during the world's impending financial Armageddon....

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