World Financial History

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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 3,340 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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    • 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 348 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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    • A Financial History of the World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Niall Ferguson's epic history, The Ascent of Money. Behind each great historical phenomenon there lies a financial secret....

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    • The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
    • By: Ed Conway
    • Narrated by: Ed Conway
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Ed Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates....

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    • How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
    • By: Adam Tooze
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
    • Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 565 ratings
    • From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shock waves being felt around the world today....

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    • How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order
    • By: Saleha Mohsin
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Bloomberg News reporter Saleha Mohsin tells the inside story of how one of America’s most invincible institutions—the Treasury—has used the U.S. dollar to define America’s role in the world, and our economic future....

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    • Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
    • By: Quinn Slobodian
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal: an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy....

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    • Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises (Haney Foundation Series)
    • By: Richard Vague
    • Narrated by: Kevin Meyer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Building on insights gleaned from many years of work in the banking industry and drawing on a vast trove of data, Richard Vague argues that financial crises follow a pattern that makes them both predictable and avoidable....

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    • Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy’s Only Hope
    • By: John Allison
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 333 ratings
    • Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? Answer: no....

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    • By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Sometimes small acts of kindness lead to greater things. The author of Darkness: A Slave's Story and The Lilac Nurse brings to life a heartbreaking...

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    • Memes, Manias, Booms & Busts ... Investing In the 21st Century (3rd Edition)
    • By: Addison Wiggin, William Bonner
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this entertaining romp through recent economic and financial history, bestselling author Addison Wiggin traces the primary trends that have led up to rapid economic growth and innovation while keeping an eye on the inevitable downturn.

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    • Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
    • By: Amin Samman
    • Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
    • Series: Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times Series
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-22
    • Language: English
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    • Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time, whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its place....

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    • The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution That Changed the World
    • By: Iain Martin
    • Narrated by: Matt Addis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The gripping story of the financial revolution known as Big Bang, which transformed international business and changed our world....

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    • The Evolution of the Global Financial System to the Great Bubble Burst
    • By: Vivek Kaul
    • Narrated by: Kaushik Ramachandran
    • Series: Easy Money Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The second book in the Easy Money trilogy discusses how the global financial system evolved in the aftermath of the First World War and how that finally led to the dot-com crash in the United States, in the early 2000s....

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    • How Did We Get Here?
    • By: Phillip Inman
    • Narrated by: Philip Rose
    • Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Every day brings another gloomy economic statistic. Countries heading for bankruptcy; banks running out of money; production down; shop prices up: and no end seems to be in sight....

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