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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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    • Why Nations Succeed or Fail
    • By: Ray Dalio
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,873 ratings
    • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....

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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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    • A Better Economics for a Better World
    • By: J. Doyne Farmer
    • Narrated by: J. Doyne Farmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Many books have been written about J. Doyne Farmer and his work, but this is the first in his own words. It presents a manifesto for how to do economics better....

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    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,778 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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    • By: John Perkins
    • Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation....

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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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    • Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
    • By: Joe Studwell
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 468 ratings
    • Impressive in scope, How Asia Works is essential listening for anyone interested in a region that will shape the future of the world....

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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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    • The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
    • By: Raoul McLaughlin
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran)....

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    • Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Walter Scheidel
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....

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    • A Financial History of the World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,345 ratings
    • Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance....

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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 103 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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    • A History of Financial Speculation
    • By: Edward Chancellor
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 349 ratings
    • Devil Take the Hindmost is a lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to the present day. Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world....

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    • By: Adam Smith
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,560 ratings
    • The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism....

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    • The Bankers Who Broke the World
    • By: Liaquat Ahamed
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,652 ratings
    • Offering a new understanding of the global nature of financial crises, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have....

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    • On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
    • By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world - and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees....

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