Economic Sociology

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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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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 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
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    • 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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    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-19
    • Language: English
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    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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    • 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
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    • 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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    • Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
    • By: Ruha Benjamin
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity....

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    • The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age
    • By: Jake S. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-22
    • Language: English
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    • Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941....

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    • By: B. R. Ambedkar
    • Narrated by: Chandrahas Shetty
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 24-10-24
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    • Uncover the historical and social roots of caste discrimination in Who Were the Shudras? by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. This groundbreaking work challenges the traditional narratives of Hindu society, offering a meticulous examination of the origins and status of the Shudra caste.

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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-16
    • Language: English
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    • From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broad, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class....

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    • The Anxieties of Affluence
    • By: Rachel Sherman
    • Narrated by: Liz Thompson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-17
    • Language: English
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    • A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society....

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    • The Country House Before the Great War
    • By: Adrian Tinniswood
    • Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-24
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    • In the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation’s stately homes revelled in a golden age of glory and glamour. Nothing lay beyond their reach in a world where privilege and hedonism went hand-in-hand with duty and honour.

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    • Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
    • By: Jonathan Malesic
    • Narrated by: David Booth
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-22
    • Language: English
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    • Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing....

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    • How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
    • By: Chuck Collins
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-22
    • Language: English
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    • For decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants, and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defense Industry. These "agents of inequality" are paid millions to hide trillions for the richest 0.01 percent....

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    • The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
    • By: Tyler Cowen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-17
    • Language: English
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    • Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. The problem is that Americans today have broken from this tradition....

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    • Confronting Elitism in the University
    • By: Matt Brim
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
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    • In Poor Queer Studies, Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies....

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    • By: R. Buckminster Fuller
    • Narrated by: Andrew Heyl
    • Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 24-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • With the appearance of Grunch of Giants, R. Buckminster Fuller consummates his literary canon, his panoramic lifetime survey of all aspects of the responsibility of human beings for their own destiny.

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    • How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
    • By: Brink Lindsey, Steven M. Teles
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. Lindsey and Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit....

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