Bestsellers
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....
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Ray Dalio, Chinas New Minister of Propoganda
- By Dudley on 01-04-22
By: Ray Dalio
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The Sovereign Individual
- Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
- By: James Dale Davidson, Peter Thiel - preface, William Rees-Mogg
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the best seller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century....
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Unfortunately distopian for mosty of humanity
- By Phil on 09-29-20
By: James Dale Davidson, and others
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Growth
- A History and a Reckoning
- By: Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the rise of vast inequalities, and destabilizing technologies.
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Clear and concise
- By Andrew on 06-13-24
By: Daniel Susskind
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The Theory of Money and Credit
- By: Ludwig von Mises
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money ever to appear....
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Interesting read
- By Todd Woollen on 07-20-19
By: Ludwig von Mises
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The Fiat Standard
- The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
- By: Saifedean Ammous
- Narrated by: Saifedean Ammous, Guy Swann
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global best seller The Bitcoin Standard....
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Less informative than Bitcoin Standard
- By Andres Nolvak on 09-05-22
By: Saifedean Ammous
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Central Banking 101
- By: Joseph J Wang
- Narrated by: Bill Anciaux
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation and catapult it towards euphoric highs. With a few keystrokes, the Fed can conjure up trillions of dollars and fund virtually unlimited Federal spending....
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Great Knowledge & Information
- By Lloyd K. on 09-09-24
By: Joseph J Wang
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....
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Ray Dalio, Chinas New Minister of Propoganda
- By Dudley on 01-04-22
By: Ray Dalio
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The Sovereign Individual
- Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
- By: James Dale Davidson, Peter Thiel - preface, William Rees-Mogg
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the best seller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century....
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Unfortunately distopian for mosty of humanity
- By Phil on 09-29-20
By: James Dale Davidson, and others
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Growth
- A History and a Reckoning
- By: Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the rise of vast inequalities, and destabilizing technologies.
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Clear and concise
- By Andrew on 06-13-24
By: Daniel Susskind
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The Theory of Money and Credit
- By: Ludwig von Mises
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money ever to appear....
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Interesting read
- By Todd Woollen on 07-20-19
By: Ludwig von Mises
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The Fiat Standard
- The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
- By: Saifedean Ammous
- Narrated by: Saifedean Ammous, Guy Swann
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global best seller The Bitcoin Standard....
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Less informative than Bitcoin Standard
- By Andres Nolvak on 09-05-22
By: Saifedean Ammous
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Central Banking 101
- By: Joseph J Wang
- Narrated by: Bill Anciaux
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation and catapult it towards euphoric highs. With a few keystrokes, the Fed can conjure up trillions of dollars and fund virtually unlimited Federal spending....
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Great Knowledge & Information
- By Lloyd K. on 09-09-24
By: Joseph J Wang
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Bitcoin: Hard Money You Can't F*ck With
- Why Bitcoin Will Be the Next Global Reserve Currency
- By: Jason A. Williams
- Narrated by: Jessica Walker
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Hard Money You Can’t F*ck With explains bitcoin in simple, understandable terms and maps out how this "magic internet money" will grow into the best form of money we’ve ever had....
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HFSP if you do not read/listen
- By brandon on 02-12-21
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Good Economics for Hard Times
- Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
- By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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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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audio is not The best format for a book like this
- By CB on 12-08-19
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, and others
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Riches from Bitches
- Exploiting the Sheconomy for Profit
- By: Cairo Copeland
- Narrated by: Cairo Copeland
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Riches From Bitches isn't just about making money; it's about crafting your own destiny in a world ripe with possibilities.
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Great stress release for the red pill man.
- By wcurtin1962 on 09-18-24
By: Cairo Copeland
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Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms
- How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
- By: Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Paul Swartz
- Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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When turmoil hits, executives and investors face notoriously unreliable macroeconomic forecasts, whipsawing data, and contradictory opinions. Are disruptions transient and ephemeral-or permanent and structural?
By: Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, and others
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Trillion Dollar Triage
- How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
- By: Nick Timiraos
- Narrated by: Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs....
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Hard to listen. Mostly an anti Trump book.
- By NL on 04-17-22
By: Nick Timiraos
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
- By: Kate Raworth
- Narrated by: Kate Raworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality,....
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Economic romanticizing, not economic thinking
- By LAM X LUU on 04-05-18
By: Kate Raworth
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State and Revolution
- By: Vladimir Ilich Lenin
- Narrated by: Chris Matthews
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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State and Revolution (1917) describes the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution....
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Revolution, Not Reform
- By Earth Lover on 07-24-19
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Economics 101
- From Consumer Behavior to Competitive Markets—Everything You Need to Know About Economics
- By: Alfred Mill
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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So much of the world revolves around economics, so why do most texts make it so dull and difficult to learn? But learning economics doesn’t have to be boring. In Economics 101, you’ll see how learning economics can be engaging....
By: Alfred Mill
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Slouching Towards Utopia
- An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
- By: J. Bradford DeLong
- Narrated by: Allan Aquino
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
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From one of the world’s leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied....
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A clear but sometimes one-sided economic history
- By Anon on 11-22-22
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Economics
- The User's Guide
- By: Ha-Joon Chang
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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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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good read, though a little dense for some
- By John on 07-23-24
By: Ha-Joon Chang
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The Prosperity Paradox
- How Innovation Can Lift Nations out of Poverty
- By: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, Karen Dillon
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Clayton M. Christensen and coauthors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity and offers a groundbreaking solution for true and lasting change....
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Simplistic, lack of insights
- By D. Cameron on 05-24-21
By: Clayton M. Christensen, and others
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Oneness vs. the 1%
- Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
- By: Vandana Shiva, Kartikey Shiva
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaires club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world....
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Bombshell
- By Anonymous User on 02-24-21
By: Vandana Shiva, and others
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On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
- By: David Ricardo
- Narrated by: Dominic Page
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The book On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) secured Ricardo's position among the prominent classical economists. Ricardo wanted to thoroughly examine rent, wages, and profit....
By: David Ricardo
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Angrynomics
- By: Eric Lonergan, Mark Blyth
- Narrated by: Eric Lonergan, Mark Blyth
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Call for rationality and cool-headedness
- By Octavian on 05-08-24
By: Eric Lonergan, and others
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Animal Spirits
- How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
- By: George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today....
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A Relevant Portrayal of Behavioral Economics
- By CWALL on 03-08-10
By: George A. Akerlof, and others
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Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism
- By: Vladimir Ilich Lenin
- Narrated by: Richard Webb
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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This 100-year-old book still explains our endless wars. As the extraordinary death and suffering of World War I unfolded, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin tried to explain why so many nations agreed to sacrifice so many people in such a brutal way....
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Arguing with Zombies
- Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
- By: Paul Krugman
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Paul Krugman
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no stronger foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won’t die....
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One of the most decisive and partisan books I’ve read
- By Bob on 03-11-20
By: Paul Krugman
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Crash of the Titans
- Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America
- By: Greg Farrell
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
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Here is the intimate, fly-on-the wall tale of the decline and fall of an America icon....
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The author needs an outline or timeline
- By Stephanie on 12-19-10
By: Greg Farrell
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Narrative Economics
- How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
- By: Robert J. Shiller
- Narrated by: Susan Osman, Robert J. Shiller - introduction
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The stories people tell - about economic confidence or panic, housing booms, the American dream, or Bitcoin - affect economic outcomes. Narrative Economics explains how we can begin to take these stories seriously. It may be Robert Shiller's most important book to date....
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Such boring narration (returned)
- By William J Brown on 10-08-19
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Prosperity Without Growth
- Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
- By: Tim Jackson
- Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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In this new edition, Tim Jackson brings his explosive book up to date exploring both the philosophical basis for a lasting prosperity and the conceptual foundations for the economy of tomorrow....
By: Tim Jackson
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Blind Spot
- The Global Rise of Unhappiness and How Leaders Missed It
- By: Jon Clifton
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Backed by global research, Gallup’s deep dive into citizen well-being and happiness that leaders didn’t see now available on audio for the first time....
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great on what should really matter to govt
- By Shane Hayes on 06-04-23
By: Jon Clifton
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Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism
- By: Vladimir Lenin
- Narrated by: Michael Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Vladimir Lenin’s 1916 essay "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism", is a synthesis of Lenin's development of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in Das Kapital....
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Used for a Poly Sci class
- By Reviewer.892 on 04-22-21
By: Vladimir Lenin
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MegaThreats
- Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
- By: Nouriel Roubini
- Narrated by: Kamran Khan
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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The bestselling author of CRISIS ECONOMICS argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats....
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I loved his last book on the 2007-2008 crash
- By Rodney on 11-08-22
By: Nouriel Roubini
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What Is to Be Done?
- By: Vladimir Lenin
- Narrated by: Adam Douglas
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement is a political pamphlet written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. Lenin contends that the working class will not become politically aware simply by struggling with employers over wages, hours and working conditions....
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a blueprint for a revolution
- By Matthew Hallock on 10-25-23
By: Vladimir Lenin