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    • Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
    • By: Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
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    • History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps....

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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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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
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    • 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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    • By: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States....

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    • The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
    • By: R. R. Palmer, Isser Woloch - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France....

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    • The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)
    • By: George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison
    • Narrated by: George Monbiot
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; even the planet we inhabit – the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name....

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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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    • 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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    • America and the Crisis of Global Power
    • By: Zbigniew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America....

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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 48 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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    • How Trade Shaped the World
    • By: William J. Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce....

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    • The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
    • By: William A. Galston
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens....

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    • How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals....

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    • Why Economists Are Getting It Wrong and What We Can Do About It
    • By: David Pilling
    • Narrated by: Elliot Hill
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 826 ratings
    • A revelatory and entertaining book about the pitfalls of how we measure our economy and how to correct them, by an award-winning editor of The Financial Times....

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    • The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
    • By: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
    • Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....

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    • A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
    • By: George Monbiot
    • Narrated by: George Monbiot
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 586 ratings
    • A toxic ideology rules the world of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose....

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    • Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
    • By: Michael Mandelbaum
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-22
    • Language: English
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    • In The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy, Michael Mandelbaum offers a new framework for understanding the evolution of the foreign policy of the United States....

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