Economic History

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

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    • 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 74 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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    • 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 605 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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    • 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 486 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 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 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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    • 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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    • 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 out of 5 stars 61 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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    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: Arthur R. Kroeber
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater. Today it is the world's second biggest economy....

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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: 15-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 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: 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 Untold Story
    • By: Sean Howe
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history: Marvel Comics....

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    • 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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    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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