Money Finance History

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    • By: Jack Weatherford
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 549 ratings
    • The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives....

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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 3,770 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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    • Episodes in Monetary History
    • By: Milton Friedman
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 442 ratings
    • The work of 2 obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan....

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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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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 498 ratings
    • The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle....

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    • Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
    • By: Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 494 ratings
    • Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises....

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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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    • 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 1,573 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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    • Why Nations Succeed or Fail
    • By: Ray Dalio
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,864 ratings
    • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....

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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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    • 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 349 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: Barton Biggs
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Legendary Wall Street investor Barton Biggs will help the 21st-century investor comprehend our own perilous times as well as choose the best strategies for the modern market economy....

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    • A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
    • By: Bill Browder
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15,111 ratings
    • Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,413 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff
    • By: Christine S. Richard
    • Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • With a mix of entertaining real-life extracts, client case studies, and personal experiences, Future Proofing Your Business offers potent and refined tools that have been road tested in real-world situations and aren't taught in business school....

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    • Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
    • By: David S. Landes
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance....

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    • Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
    • By: Sebastian Mallaby
    • Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 861 ratings
    • Bolstered by Mallaby’s unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007–2009....

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    • By: Yuen Yuen Ang
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers. Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions....

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    • A Longer View
    • By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Ellen Meiksins Wood offers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state....

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