Economic Life

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    • The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
    • By: Hugh Brewster
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage takes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanic's elegant private suites to present compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers....

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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 9,018 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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    • Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
    • By: Jonathan Malesic
    • Narrated by: David Booth
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing....

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    • Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
    • By: Charles Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 389 ratings
    • After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time....

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    • On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
    • By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world - and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees....

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    • Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life
    • By: Richard H. Thaler
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Richard Thaler challenges the received economic wisdom by revealing many of the paradoxes that abound even in the most painstakingly constructed transactions....

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    • The Economics of Everyday Life
    • By: David Friedman
    • Narrated by: David Friedman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The book is for listeners who would like to learn economics for the fun of it - economics understood not as the study of the economy but as a tool for understanding human behavior: crime, marriage, politics, and much else....

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    • Life in the Age of Corporate Power
    • By: David Dayen
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Over the last 40 years our choices have narrowed, our opportunities have shrunk, and our lives have become governed by a handful of very large and very powerful corporations....

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    • New York's Most Unusual Address
    • By: Stephen Birmingham
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the late 1800s, it was derisively dubbed “the Dakota”....

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,932 ratings
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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    • The Lives and Ideas of The Great Thinkers
    • By: Mark Skousen
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics—the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today’s rigorous social science....

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    • Why Asset Managers Own the World
    • By: Brett Christophers
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets....

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    • A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
    • By: Robert Frank
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • The rich have always been different from you and me, but this revealing and funny journey through Richistan entertainingly shows that they are more different than ever....

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    • Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself
    • By: Lynne Twist
    • Narrated by: Lynne Twist
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Living a Committed Life demonstrates the power of dedication that goes beyond the self and teaches how to live a committed life that enables you to draw on resources and capacities from your most authentic self....

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    • The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
    • By: George Gilder
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,746 ratings
    • In Life After Google, Gilder takes listeners on a brilliant, rocketing journey into the very near-future, into an Internet with a new "bitcoin-bitgold" transaction layer that will replace spam with seamless micro-payments and provide an all-new standard for global money....

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    • The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers
    • By: Mark Skousen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
    • Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 443 ratings
    • Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer....

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    • The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
    • By: Benjamin Lorr
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Lorr
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,785 ratings
    • In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store....

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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 1,452 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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    • The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want
    • By: Diane Mulcahy
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • From Uber to the presidential debates, the gig economy has been dominating the headlines, and for good reason. Today, more than a third of Americans are working in the gig economy....

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