Poverty Economics

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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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    • 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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    • 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 4,415 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 851 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 59,732 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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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 5,985 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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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • Understanding Poverty, Wealth, and Criminality
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 07-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • Unlock the hidden dynamics behind criminal behavior with "The Economics of Crime." This compelling eBook delves deep into the intricate ...

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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
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    • 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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    • Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
    • By: Andrea Elliott
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter, weaving the story of her childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north....

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    • Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • By: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,708 ratings
    • At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....

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    • A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
    • By: George F. Gilder
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • Hailed as "the guide to capitalism", the New York Times best seller Wealth and Poverty is one of the most influential economics books of all time....

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