Money Finance History

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    • A Story of Humanity
    • By: David McWilliams
    • Narrated by: David McWilliams
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Global economist David McWilliams explores our relationship with money and how it sustains the existence of civilisation as we know it....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Financial History of the World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Niall Ferguson's epic history, The Ascent of Money. Behind each great historical phenomenon there lies a financial secret....

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    • 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 298 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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    • The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
    • By: Quinn Slobodian
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization....

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    • A History of Financial Crises
    • By: Robert Z. Aliber, Charles P. Kindleberger
    • Narrated by: Alister Austin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this thoroughly revised edition following the latest crises to hit international markets, economist Robert Z. Aliber introduces the concept that global financial crises in recent years are not independent events, but symptomatic of an inherent instability in the international system....

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    • Revised and Expanded Third Edition
    • By: Robert J. Shiller
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 25-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • With high stock and bond prices and the rising cost of housing, the post-subprime boom may well turn out to be another illustration of Shiller's influential argument that psychologically driven volatility is an inherent characteristic of all asset markets....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • By: John Kenneth Galbraith
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 19-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • With incomparable wisdom, skill, and wit, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith traces the history of the major speculative episodes in our economy over the last three centuries....

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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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    • A Longer View
    • By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Ellen Meiksins Wood offers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state....

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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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    • 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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    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • By: Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

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    • A Very Short Introduction, 4th edition
    • By: John Pinder, Simon Usherwood
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this fully updated fourth edition, Pinder and Usherwood cover the migrant crisis and the UK's decision to leave the Union, set in the context of a body that is now involved in most areas of public policy....

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    • Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
    • By: Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises....

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