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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,443 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,580 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 550 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • Monopolies and the Death of Competition
    • By: Jonathan Tepper, Denise Hearn
    • Narrated by: Pamela Almand
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives....

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    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 967 ratings
    • The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable....

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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 311 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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    • Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
    • By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it....

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    • Essays on a Failing System
    • By: Wolfgang Streeck
    • Narrated by: David Skulski
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated....

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    • New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
    • By: Kim Phillips-Fein
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible....

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    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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    • The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
    • By: Quinn Slobodian
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization....

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    • How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
    • By: Jim Powell
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 500 ratings
    • Think FDR was a great president? Think again....

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    • Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
    • By: Karl Marx, Paul North - editor, Paul Reitter - translator
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Series: Critique of Political Economy, Book 1
    • Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Karl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. This magnificent new edition of Capital is a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century.

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    • The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power
    • By: Nomi Prins
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents' Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street....

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    • An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street
    • By: Neil Barofsky
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 407 ratings
    • An insider of both the Bush and Obama administrations offers an irrefutable indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailouts and the extreme degree to which our government officials....

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    • The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
    • By: Oliver Bullough
    • Narrated by: Oliver Bullough
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 538 ratings
    • An investigative journalist's deep dive into the corrupt workings of the world's kleptocrats....

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    • The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
    • By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,869 ratings
    • A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter....

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    • An International Perspective
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 331 ratings
    • Using an international framework, Sowell analyzes how much a racial group’s economic fate is determined by the surrounding society....

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    • The Future of the System that Rules the World
    • By: Branko Milanovic
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In Capitalism, Alone, leading economist Branko Milanovic explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism....

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