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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 948 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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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 77 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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    • 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 611 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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    • 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 192 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 489 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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    • 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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    • 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 1,085 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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    • The Red Emperor

    • Xi Jinping and His New China
    • By: Michael Sheridan
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • Xi Jinping rules over 1.4 billion people and the second biggest economy on earth. The book, based on new sources, leads the listener from the poor, isolated China of the 1950s to the modern economic and military juggernaut of today....

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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 98 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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    • 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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    • 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 142 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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    • Check Your Financial Privilege

    • By: Alex Gladstein
    • Narrated by: Guy Swann
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 16-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • Alex Gladstein has a lot to say about Bitcoin, human rights, financial privilege, and personal freedom....

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    • When Money Dies

    • The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany
    • By: Adam Fergusson
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nations currency depreciates beyond recovery....

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    • The Locust and the Bee

    • Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future
    • By: Geoff Mulgan
    • Narrated by: Mark Ashby
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy....

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    • Against the Gods

    • The Remarkable Story of Risk
    • By: Peter L. Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Mike Fraser
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings

    • In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past.

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    • The Economic Weapon

    • The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
    • By: Nicholas Mulder
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

    • Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early 20th century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war....

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    • The History of Money

    • By: Jack Weatherford
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives....

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    • Blood in the Machine

    • The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
    • By: Brian Merchant
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)....

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