Social Economics

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    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • This book is designed to unravel the tangled threads of the 2008-2009 financial crisis....

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    • A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 28 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives....

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

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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 303 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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    • 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 24 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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    • A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

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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 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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    • By: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency
    • By: Roger L. Martin
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Filled with keen economic insight and advice for citizens, executives, policymakers, and educators, When More Is Not Better is the must-listen guide for saving democratic capitalism....

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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 22 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship of two towering Enlightenment thinkers that had great consequences for modern thought....

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