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    • Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324 ratings
    • The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day....

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    • The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
    • By: Ben S. Bernanke
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • A former chair of the Federal Reserve explains the transformation of one our most powerful and consequential institutions....

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    • Restoring Freedom and Prosperity
    • By: Richard Ebeling
    • Narrated by: Larry Wayne
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Austrian economics is the most powerful explanation of why governments, no matter how well-intentioned, lack the knowledge, wisdom, and ability to direct the lives of multitudes of people....

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    • How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
    • By: Elizabeth Popp Berman
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change....

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    • Co-operatives in the Age of Capital
    • By: John Restakis
    • Narrated by: David M. Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe....

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    • One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret
    • By: Catherine Coleman Flowers
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers’s life’s work. It’s a fight for a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation....

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    • By: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States....

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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 4,412 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • For the Many, Not the Few
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,718 ratings
    • In Saving Capitalism, Robert Reich reveals the entrenched cycles of power and influence that have damaged American capitalism, perpetuating a new oligarchy....

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    • America and the World in the Free Market Era
    • By: Gary Gerstle
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was....

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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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    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 965 ratings
    • The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable....

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    • Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
    • By: Tyler Cowen
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 380 ratings
    • The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you're not at the top, you're at the bottom....

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    • And Other Essays
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Thomas Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: Arthur R. Kroeber
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater. Today it is the world's second biggest economy....

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    • Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
    • By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it....

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    • How Wealth Hacks the World
    • By: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
    • Narrated by: Patrick Harrison
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe that has become a haven for the rich and powerful.

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    • How Trade Shaped the World
    • By: William J. Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 387 ratings
    • In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce....

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    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,043 ratings
    • Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....

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