Short Economics

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    • A Short History of Humanity
    • By: Andrew Leigh
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Harvard-trained economist Andrew Leigh presents a new way to understand the human story. From the dawn of agriculture to AI, here is story of how ingenuity, greed, and desire for betterment have, to an astonishing degree, determined our past, present, and future.

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,909 ratings
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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    • By: John Kenneth Galbraith
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • With incomparable wisdom, skill, and wit, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith traces the history of the major speculative episodes in our economy over the last three centuries....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Partha Dasgupta
    • Narrated by: Gayle Hendrix
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life and offer solutions to them, too. He shows how economics uncovers these processes, finds explanations for them, and how it forms policies and solutions....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael Allingham
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • We make choices all the time - about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational or irrational....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Amrita Narlikar
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The World Trade Organization (WTO) began in 1995, but even in the first 10 years of its existence it generated debate, controversy, and even outrage....

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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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    • 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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    • By: Roger Lowenstein
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse - and the government's unprecedented response - from our most trusted business journalist....

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    • A Short History of Living Longer
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Steven Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Eric Rauchway
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures....

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    • A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
    • By: Gary Younge
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States....

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    • A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • By: John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • In The Company, the largely unknown history of the joint-stock company is presented by the editors of Economist....

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    • The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
    • By: Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, Henry M. Paulson Jr.
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis - from why it happened to where we are now....

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    • A Very Short Introduction, 4th edition
    • By: John Pinder, Simon Usherwood
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this fully updated fourth edition, Pinder and Usherwood cover the migrant crisis and the UK's decision to leave the Union, set in the context of a body that is now involved in most areas of public policy....

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    • How the Wall Street Banks Have Left the Silver Market in Place for the Short-Squeeze of a Lifetime
    • By: Chris Marcus
    • Narrated by: Chris Marcus
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Many were stunned to see The Big Short and realize that there were a few savvy traders who saw the subprime crisis in advance, and used that knowledge to make a fortune in the financial markets....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Ariel Ezrachi
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Competition is responsible for much of the prosperity around us. Competitive markets deliver lower prices, better quality, abundance of choice, and increased innovation....

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    • The User's Guide
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works - in real-world terms....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Ian Goldin
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Goldin considers the contributions that education, health, gender, equity, and other dimensions of human well-being make to development....

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