Industrial Economics

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Walter A. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society....

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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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,575 ratings
    • 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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    • For Industry, Government, Education
    • By: W. Edwards Deming
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • W. Edwards Deming details the system of transformation that underlies the "14 Points for Management" presented in Out of the Crisis....

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    • An Informal History of the 1920s
    • By: Frederick Lewis Allen
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • In this span between armistice and depression, Americans were kicking up their heels....

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    • The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices
    • By: Robin Feldman
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In Drugs, Money and Secret Handshakes, Robin Feldman shines a light into the dark corners of the pharmaceutical industry to expose a web of shadowy deals in which higher-priced drugs receive favorable treatment and patients are channeled toward the most expensive medicines....

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • By: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

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    • The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
    • By: Gabriel Winant
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today, most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet....

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    • The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
    • By: Andreas Malm
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power....

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    • The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
    • By: Eric Blanc
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of "the white working class", a strike wave - the first in over four decades - rocked the United States....

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    • Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
    • By: Eyal Press
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society's most ethically troubling jobs....

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    • How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
    • By: Daniel Markovits
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 432 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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    • By: Klaus Schwab
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 648 ratings
    • World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution....

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    • Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
    • By: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,489 ratings
    • From Malcolm Gladwell’s hit podcast Revisionist History comes a compendium about one of his greatest obsessions: education....

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    • How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
    • By: Ellen E. Schultz
    • Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • It’s no secret that hundreds of companies have been slashing pensions and health coverage earned by millions of retirees. Employers blame an aging workforce, stock market losses, and spiraling costs....

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    • How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies
    • By: Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington
    • Narrated by: Amy Finegan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change....

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