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    • By: Ron Paul
    • Narrated by: Bob Craig
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 900 ratings
    • Most people don't give a second thought to the Federal Reserve, but they should. In End the Fed, Ron Paul argues that the Fed is both corrupt and dangerously autonomous....

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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 962 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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    • 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 1,127 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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    • The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
    • By: Chrystia Freeland
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically....

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    • Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works
    • By: Timothy Taylor
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Economics isn't just about numbers: It's about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists....

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    • The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
    • By: Rana Foroohar
    • Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 495 ratings
    • Through colorful stories of both “Takers”, those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers”, businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward....

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    • An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America
    • By: Danielle DiMartino Booth
    • Narrated by: Danielle DiMartino Booth
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 854 ratings
    • This book is Booth's clarion call for a change in the way America's most powerful financial institution is run - before it's too late....

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    • False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
    • By: Binyamin Appelbaum
    • Narrated by: Dan Bittner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • In this fascinating character-driven history, a New York Times editorial writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist spotlights the American economists who championed the rise of markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world....

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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: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 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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    • Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy
    • By: Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite....

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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 342 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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    • How Central Bankers Rigged the World
    • By: Nomi Prins
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • In this exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance....

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    • The User's Guide
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works - in real-world terms....

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    • What Killed Capitalism
    • By: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Big tech has replaced capitalism's twin pillars—markets and profit—with its platforms and rents. With every click and scroll, we labor like serfs to increase its power....

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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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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 495 ratings
    • The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle....

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    • A Cure for Capitalism
    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 345 ratings
    • Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society....

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    • 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
    • By: James Grant
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • In 1920-1921, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it, implementing policies that most 21st-century economists would call backward....

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    • The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
    • By: Sebastian Mallaby
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 29 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time, from the best-selling author of The Power Law and More Money Than God. Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research....

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    • The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
    • By: Dani Rodrik
    • Narrated by: James Conlan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works....

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