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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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    • 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 342 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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    • How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
    • By: Linda Yueh
    • Narrated by: Linda Yueh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Acclaimed economist and BBC broadcaster Linda Yueh profiles the great economic minds who focused on the big questions: growth, innovation, and the nature of markets....

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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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    • Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • The United States has two separate banking systems today - one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else....

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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 338 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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    • By: Henry Hazlitt
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,875 ratings
    • Called by H.L. Mencken, "one of the few economists in history who could really write," Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliant but concise work....

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    • How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
    • By: Judith Stein
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory....

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    • How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World's Economy
    • By: Raghuram Rajan
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit....

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    • An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
    • By: Joseph E Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the facts tell a different story....

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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: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 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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    • By: Eric Lonergan, Mark Blyth
    • Narrated by: Eric Lonergan, Mark Blyth
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us experience day in and day out feels increasingly uncertain, unfair, and ever more expensive....

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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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    • 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 1,750 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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    • Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity
    • By: John B. Taylor
    • Narrated by: Ken Maxon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Leading economist John B. Taylor’s straightforward plan to rebuild America’s economic future by returning to its founding principles....

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    • America in 100 Charts
    • By: Scott Galloway
    • Narrated by: Scott Galloway
    • Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation—and how we got here....

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    • Neoliberalism & Global Order
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones
    • Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • In Profit Over People, Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, tracing the history of neoliberalism....

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    • How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
    • By: Brink Lindsey, Steven M. Teles
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. Lindsey and Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit....

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    • A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All
    • By: Martin Sandbu
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The Economics of Belonging argues that we should step back and take a fresh look at the root causes of our current challenges. In this engaging book, Martin Sandbu argues that economics remains at the heart of our widening inequality....

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