War Finance

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    • The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology
    • By: Chris Miller
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,249 ratings
    • You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips....

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    • The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy
    • By: Sarah E. Kreps
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Sarah Kreps chronicles the entire history of how America has paid for its wars - and how its methods have changed....

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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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    • 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 200 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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    • Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
    • By: Tom Burgis
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage....

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    • How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 714 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II....

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    • Bretton Woods, 1944: J. M. Keynes and the Reshaping of the Global Economy
    • By: Ed Conway
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • The meeting of world leaders at Bretton Woods in 1944 was the only time countries from around the world agreed to overhaul the structure of the international monetary system....

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    • Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
    • By: Matthew Parker
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent, dramatic, and shocking history....

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    • Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • A best-selling historian's gripping account of the powerful men who controlled America's financial destiny. From the first days of the United States, a battle raged over money....

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • By: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

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    • China's Playbook for Global Domination
    • By: Gen. Robert Spalding
    • Narrated by: David Bryson, Brett Boles
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • In its fight for global dominance, Communist China has thrown out the old rules of war. China expert General Robert Spalding walks us through their new playbook.

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    • War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire
    • By: David McNally
    • Narrated by: Tim Getman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In most accounts of the origins of money, we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. In this groundbreaking study David McNally reveals the true story of money's origins and development....

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    • The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
    • By: Chris Miller
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Chip War reveals how we can’t make sense of politics, economics or technology today without first understanding the central role played by computer chips in shaping the modern world. But the West's lead in this area is under threat....

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    • The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
    • By: Justene Hill Edwards
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Historian Justene Hill Edwards unearths a major turning point in American history in this comprehensive account of the Freedman's Bank and its depositors.

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    • Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance
    • By: Paul Kahan
    • Narrated by: Jared Cram
    • Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Historian Paul Kahan explores one of the most important events in American political and economic history, from the idea of centralized banking and the First Bank of the United States to Jackson's triumph, the era of "free banking", and the creation of the Federal Reserve System....

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    • Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
    • By: Dana Mattioli
    • Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt, Dana Mattioli
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary....

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    • How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept
    • By: Robert Spalding
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,942 ratings
    • In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West....

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    • Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite
    • By: Michael Lind
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • In both Europe and North America, populist movements have shattered existing party systems and thrown governments into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims that these populist insurgencies seek to overthrow liberal democracy. The truth is no less alarming but is more complex....

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    • How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World
    • By: Rupert Russell
    • Narrated by: Ben Deery
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Price Wars is a fascinating, original, and groundbreaking exposé of the power of the commodities markets to disrupt the world....

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