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    • How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
    • By: Atif Mian, Amir Sufi
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • Atif Mian and Amir Sufi reveal in House of Debt how the Great Recession and Great Depression were caused by a large run-up in household debt....

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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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    • Economics and Everyday Life
    • By: Steven E. Landsburg
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • The extensively revised and updated edition of Steven Landsburg's hugely popular book, The Armchair Economist - "a delightful compendium of quotidian examples illustrating important economic and financial theories" (The Journal of Finance). Listen to learn more....

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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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    • 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 1,126 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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    • 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 494 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 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 22 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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    • How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status
    • By: Arthur B. Laffer
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Laffer and Moore follow the rousing success of The End of Prosperity with a book even more vital to America and Americans....

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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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    • Your Shortcut to the Most Important Ideas on Capitalism, Finance, and the Global Economy
    • By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism, and the global economy....

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    • An Introduction to Marxist Economics
    • By: Hadas Thier
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Presenting a lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%....

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    • The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Jim Bond
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • This book calls on America to return to its abandoned role, to offer a helping hand instead of a closed fist to countries struggling to follow in our footsteps....

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    • Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities....

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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 47 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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    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics....

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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 2,877 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 America Gave Up on Free Markets
    • By: Thomas Philippon
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Why are cellphone plans so much more expensive in the United States than in Europe? It seems a simple question. But the search for an answer took Thomas Philippon on an unexpected journey through some of the most complex and hotly debated issues in modern economics....

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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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    • 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 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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