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    • How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
    • By: Atif Mian, Amir Sufi
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Atif Mian and Amir Sufi reveal in House of Debt how the Great Recession and Great Depression were caused by a large run-up in household debt....

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    • The History of a Dangerous Idea
    • By: Mark Blyth
    • Narrated by: Fred Stella
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse....

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    • 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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    • A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
    • By: Charles Wheelan
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Consider the $20 bill. It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity....

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    • How to Save the World from Financialisation
    • By: Grace Blakeley
    • Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 13-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....

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    • The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
    • By: Rana Foroohar
    • Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Through colorful stories of both “Takers”, those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers”, businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward....

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    • Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works
    • By: Timothy Taylor
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Economics isn't just about numbers: It's about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists....

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    • A Guide to His Economic Thought
    • By: Eamonn Butler
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • One of the great economists of the 20th century, Milton Friedman has always challenged the prevailing economic orthodoxy....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential audio reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work....

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    • By: Eric Lonergan, Mark Blyth
    • Narrated by: Eric Lonergan, Mark Blyth
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 29-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us experience day in and day out feels increasingly uncertain, unfair, and ever more expensive....

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    • A Cure for Capitalism
    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society....

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    • How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
    • By: Andrew Scott Cooper
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Struggling with a recession... European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans... A possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s....

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    • Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
    • By: Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises....

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    • Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation
    • By: Peter Fleming
    • Narrated by: James Young
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • For neoclassical economists, Homo economicus, or economic human, represents the ideal employee: an energetic worker bee that is a rational yet competitive decision-maker....

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    • A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
    • By: Branko Milanovic
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale....

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    • How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
    • By: Frank Trentmann
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 33 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers....

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