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    • The Elite Charade of Changing the World
    • By: Anand Giridharadas
    • Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,127 ratings
    • Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it....

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    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,007 ratings
    • Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....

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    • For the Many, Not the Few
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,704 ratings
    • In Saving Capitalism, Robert Reich reveals the entrenched cycles of power and influence that have damaged American capitalism, perpetuating a new oligarchy....

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    • A History of the Rich in the West
    • By: Guido Alfani
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Alfani argues that the position of the rich and super-rich in Western society has always been intrinsically fragile; their very presence has inspired social unease. In the Middle Ages, an excessive accumulation of wealth was considered sinful; the rich were expected not to appear to be wealthy....

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    • Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
    • By: Jason Hickel
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • Sixty percent of humanity - some four-point-three billion people - live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right....

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    • The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
    • By: Matthew Stewart
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • In 21st century America, the top 0.1 percent of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90 percent have lost ground. What’s left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9 percent that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth....

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    • A Personal Statement
    • By: Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,751 ratings
    • Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, teamed up to write this most convincing and readable guide, which illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society....

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    • Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy....

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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: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 687 ratings
    • 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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    • The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
    • By: Nicholas Wapshott
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore the balance to economies gone awry....

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    • How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise
    • By: Arthur C. Brooks
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility: These traditions are at the heart of the free enterprise system, and have long been central to America's exceptional culture....

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    • How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
    • By: Daniel Markovits
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 428 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential audio reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work....

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    • America and the World in the Free Market Era
    • By: Gary Gerstle
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was....

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    • The Collapse and Revival of American Community
    • By: Robert D. Putnam
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 380 ratings
    • Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another ....

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    • How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
    • By: Katharina Pistor
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? Find out....

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    • Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
    • By: Alissa Quart
    • Narrated by: Beth Hicks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled....

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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 55 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The appearance of the famous (and massive) volumes of Rothbard's Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought in a new edition is cause for great celebration. Every paragraph bursts with intellectual energy and the author's fiery passion....

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