Wealth Disparity

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    • How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises
    • By: Marjorie Kelly
    • Narrated by: Tiffany Williams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Kelly argues instead for the democratization of ownership, including public ownership of vital services, worker-owned businesses, and more. She sketches the outlines of a nonextractive capitalism that would be subordinate to the public interest....

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    • Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
    • By: Brooke Harrington
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore.

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    • Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency
    • By: Roger L. Martin
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Filled with keen economic insight and advice for citizens, executives, policymakers, and educators, When More Is Not Better is the must-listen guide for saving democratic capitalism....

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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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    • How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
    • By: Thomas M. Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In our increasingly diverse nation, sociologist Thomas M. Shapiro argues, wealth disparities must be understood in tandem with racial inequities - a dangerous combination he terms "toxic inequality"....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Philip N. Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us....

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    • What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
    • By: Deirdre Mask
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity....

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    • By: Edward N. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Understanding wealth in the United States - who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it - is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation....

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    • How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
    • By: Jonathan Taplin
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Jonathan Taplin provides a brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century—the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism—being sold by four billionaires, leading to the degeneration and bankruptcy of our society....

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    • The Case Against Extreme Wealth
    • By: Ingrid Robeyns
    • Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this astonishing, eye-opening intervention, world-leading philosopher and economist Ingrid Robeyns exposes the true extent of our wealth problem, which has spent the past fifty years silently spiralling out of control....

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    • The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 768 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality....

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    • How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
    • By: Chuck Collins
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • For decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants, and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defense Industry. These "agents of inequality" are paid millions to hide trillions for the richest 0.01 percent....

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    • How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap
    • By: Louise Story, Ebony Reed
    • Narrated by: Tovah Ott
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • A sweeping, narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system....

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    • Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
    • By: Seth D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Fragile states expert Seth D. Kaplan offers a bold new vision for addressing social decline in America, one zip code at a time....

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    • On American Privilege
    • By: Nick McDonell
    • Narrated by: Nick McDonell
    • Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A bold and deeply personal exploration of wealth, power, and the American elite, exposing how the ruling class—intentionally or not—perpetuates cycles of injustice....

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    • How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
    • By: Katharina Pistor
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? Find out....

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    • Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country
    • By: Alex Cuadros
    • Narrated by: Alex Cuadros
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • Bloomberg News invited the young American journalist Alex Cuadros to report on Brazil's emerging class of billionaires at the height of the historic Brazilian boom....

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    • How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
    • By: Calvin Schermerhorn
    • Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-25
    • Language: English
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    • Historian Calvin Schermerhorn traces four hundred years of Black dispossession and decapitalization—what Frederick Douglass called plunder—through the stories of families who have strived to earn and keep the fruits of their toils.

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