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    • How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
    • By: Adam Tooze
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
    • Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 554 ratings
    • From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shock waves being felt around the world today....

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    • The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)
    • By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe
    • Narrated by: Paul Strikwerda
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • This sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy....

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    • Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,056 ratings
    • Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....

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    • The Story of the American Dream
    • By: David Leonhardt
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times’s “The Morning” newsletter provides a clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the death of the American Dream....

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    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 341 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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    • Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
    • By: Mark Skousen
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 648 ratings
    • The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history....

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    • The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 741 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality....

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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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    • By: Amartya Sen
    • Narrated by: Byron Wagner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Freedom, Amartya Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population....

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    • How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
    • By: Keith Payne
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 673 ratings
    • Today's inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 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 Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 961 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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    • What's Become of the Common Good?
    • By: Michael J. Sandel
    • Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 903 ratings
    • The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? Find out....

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    • The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
    • By: Kurt Andersen
    • Narrated by: Kurt Andersen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,125 ratings
    • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change - and charts a way back to the future....

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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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,320 ratings
    • The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day....

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