Economic Sociology

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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 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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    • 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 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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    • 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
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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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    • 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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    • Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
    • By: Ashley Mears
    • Narrated by: Mia Barron
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • A sociologist and former fashion model takes listeners inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
    • By: Brooke Harrington
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-24
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    • How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore.

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    • Living on Almost Nothing in America
    • By: Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-15
    • Language: English
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    • There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

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    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-12
    • Language: English
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    • A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago....

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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
    • Language: English
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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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    • The Demonization of the Working Class
    • By: Owen Jones
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-17
    • Language: English
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    • In this investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the caricature....

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    • The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
    • By: Musa al-Gharbi
    • Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively.

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    • A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    • By: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
    • Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 27-07-05
    • Language: English
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    • Assume nothing, question everything. This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down....

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