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  • Why Nations Fail cover art

    • Why Nations Fail

    • 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: 20-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 927 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • Debt - Updated and Expanded

    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 607 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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    • Misbehaving

    • The Making of Behavioral Economics
    • By: Richard H. Thaler
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,083 ratings
    • Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals....

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    • My Life, Our Times

    • By: Gordon Brown
    • Narrated by: Gordon Kennedy
    • Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • As former Prime Minister and our longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades....

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    • Titan

    • The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 487 ratings
    • Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....

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    • The Lords of Easy Money

    • How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
    • By: Christopher Leonard
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings

    • If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press....

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    • Capital and Ideology

    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings

    • The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....

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    • The Wages of Destruction

    • The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
    • By: Adam Tooze
    • Narrated by: Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
    • Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings

    • An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period....

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    • Renaissance Nation

    • How the Pope's Children Rewrote the Rules for Ireland
    • By: David McWilliams
    • Narrated by: David McWilliams
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings

    • In four decades, bookended by the Pope’s visits to Ireland in September 1979 and August 2018, Ireland has become one of the wealthiest and most progressive nations in the world....

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    • The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes

    • 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: 18-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 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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    • Economics in One Lesson

    • By: Henry Hazlitt
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings

    • Called by H.L. Mencken, "one of the few economists in history who could really write," Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliant but concise work....

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    • A Short History of Financial Euphoria

    • By: John Kenneth Galbraith
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 19-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • Davos Man

    • How the Billionaires Devoured the World
    • By: Peter S. Goodman
    • Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • The New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the world—brazenly accelerated during the pandemic—has transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy....

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    • The Thomas Sowell Reader

    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues....

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    • The Great Transformation

    • China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
    • By: Chen Jian, Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 29-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

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    • Seapower States

    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings

    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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    • Trade Wars Are Class Wars

    • 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: 19-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 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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