Poverty Economics

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    • A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 938 ratings
    • Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

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    • History, Measurement, and Policy
    • By: Martin Ravallion
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 32 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Economics of Poverty reviews critically past and present debates on poverty, spanning both rich and poor countries.

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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 4,430 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 856 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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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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    • 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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    • The Economic Classic with a New Foreword
    • By: Henry George, Ayrton Parham - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eli Snuggs
    • Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Capitalism has blessed the world with wealth and technological miracles. It has also cursed it with urban slums, powerless workers, and the vicious boom-and-bust economy. If only there were some way to fix the problems of capitalism and keep all its benefits....

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    • Why Poverty Accompanies Economic and Technological Progress
    • By: Henry George
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This landmark treatise by the great economist Henry George was first published in 1879. George's work became the seminal analysis of the political economy which inspired most, if not all, the prominent thinkers of the Progressive Movement....

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    • Economic Possibilities for Our Time
    • By: Jeffrey Sachs
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hilgartner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 234 ratings
    • The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists....

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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60,169 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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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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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,987 ratings
    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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    • Living on Almost Nothing in America
    • By: Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 690 ratings
    • There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Philip N. Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us....

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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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    • Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
    • By: Adam Shepard
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • What can you get with 25 dollars and a dream....

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    • Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity
    • By: Rainer Zitelmann
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • During the twentieth century, Vietnam and Poland were both victims not only of devastating wars, but also of socialist planned economies that destroyed whatever war hadn’t already.

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    • Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity
    • By: Mark Robert Rank
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the twenty-first century—why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? One of the nation's leading authorities provides the answer....

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    • Strategies for Professionals and Communities
    • By: Ruby K. Payne, Philip E. DeVol, Terie Dreussi-Smith
    • Narrated by: Stephen Begala
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Bridges Out of Poverty champions alliances of support, and helps individuals and communities that are ready to break free of poverty. Rather than creating reliance, Bridges' communities create new skills, resources, and motivation. Embraced by tens of thousands of people....

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    • For Black Men Who Demand Better
    • By: Aaron Clarey
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Black men suffer more than any other racial or sexual group in America. They have the lowest standards of living, shortest life expectancies, ...

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