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  • Capital and Ideology cover art

    • 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 141 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 Great Leveler

    • 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 62 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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    • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings

    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • Stolen

    • 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 165 ratings

    • For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....

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    • Austerity

    • 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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    • The Economics Book

    • 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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    • The Price of Inequality

    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable....

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    • As Gods Among Men

    • A History of the Rich in the West
    • By: Guido Alfani
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Alfani argues that the position of the rich and super-rich in Western society has always been intrinsically fragile; their very presence has inspired social unease. In the Middle Ages, an excessive accumulation of wealth was considered sinful; the rich were expected not to appear to be wealthy....

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

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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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    • Envy Up, Scorn Down

    • How Status Divides Us
    • By: Susan T Fiske
    • Narrated by: Caroline Miller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-13
    • Language: English
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    • An insightful examination of why we compare ourselves to those above and below us....

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    • Discrimination and Disparities

    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings

    • Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....

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    • Empire of Things

    • 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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    • Dream Hoarders

    • How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
    • By: Richard V. Reeves
    • Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle....

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    • This Time No Mistakes

    • How to Remake Britain
    • By: Will Hutton
    • Narrated by: Alastair Campbell, Will Hutton
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

    • Will Hutton’s passionate book shows how the right and left have gone wrong over the course of the last century – and how we can remake a better Britain. Britain’s inability to invest in itself is at the heart of our problems.

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