Economic Biography

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    • By: John Perkins
    • Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation....

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    • The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
    • By: Gregory Zuckerman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 858 ratings
    • Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters....

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    • The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America
    • By: John D. Gartner
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Hypomania, a genetically based mild form of mania, endows many of us with unusual energy, creativity, enthusiasm, and a propensity for taking risks. America has an extraordinarily high number of hypomanics - grandiose types who leap on every wacky idea that occurs to them....

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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 654 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 Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,968 ratings
    • Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....

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    • How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 714 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II....

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    • The Bankers Who Broke the World
    • By: Liaquat Ahamed
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,650 ratings
    • Offering a new understanding of the global nature of financial crises, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have....

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    • Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
    • By: Alice Schroeder
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 36 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,419 ratings
    • A personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as "The Oracle of Omaha"....

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    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 310 ratings
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

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    • David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship of two towering Enlightenment thinkers that had great consequences for modern thought....

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    • How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World
    • By: Dan Davies
    • Narrated by: Tim Paige
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written “with verve and wit” (The Sunday Times, London) by an industry insider who’s an expert in the field....

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    • Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
    • By: Brian H. Williams
    • Narrated by: Brian H. Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass....

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    • The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son
    • By: Lionel Barber
    • Narrated by: Lionel Barber
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Japan’s Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1trn in the past two decades through his media-tech giant, SoftBank.

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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 913 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 Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet....

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    • The Unauthorized Biography
    • By: Felix Martin
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession....

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    • By: Javier Milei
    • Narrated by: Francisco Natali
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-23
    • Language: Spanish
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Aquí está, esta es la Enciclopedia Milei definitiva: un libro en tres actos en los que el protagonista de la aparición más fulgurante que se produjo en...

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    • The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
    • By: T.J. Stiles
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 28 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,442 ratings
    • A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon....

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