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    • Therapy for a Traumatised Nation
    • By: Robert Peston, Kishan Koria
    • Narrated by: Nick Biadon, Robert Peston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • We in the West appear to be at a year zero, with the seeming end of the relative peace and prosperity we took for granted....

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    • Revised and Expanded Third Edition
    • By: Robert J. Shiller
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 25-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • With high stock and bond prices and the rising cost of housing, the post-subprime boom may well turn out to be another illustration of Shiller's influential argument that psychologically driven volatility is an inherent characteristic of all asset markets....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: Arthur R. Kroeber
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater. Today it is the world's second biggest economy....

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    • Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Patrick Egan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history. The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters....

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    • Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance
    • By: Adair Turner
    • Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • With narration by Richard Lyddon, who reveals why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woes....

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    • An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Joseph E. Stiglitz, along with Carter Dougherty and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, lays out the economic framework for a Europe with faster growth that is more equitably shared....

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    • The 30-Year Update
    • By: Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows, Donella Meadows
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global ‘overshoot,’ or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet.

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    • An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the Global Economy IMPLODED - and How to Fix It
    • By: John Perkins
    • Narrated by: David Ackroyd
    • Series: John Perkins Economic Hitman Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • John Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease....

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    • Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
    • By: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis, Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In January 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor teaching in Austin, Texas, was elected to the Greek parliament with more votes than any other member of parliament....

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    • Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy’s Only Hope
    • By: John Allison
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? Answer: no....

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    • Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science, and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets
    • By: Paul Wilmott, David Orrell
    • Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The Money Formula takes you inside the engine room of the global economy to explore the little-understood world of quantitative finance....

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    • Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do About It
    • By: Jon Danielsson
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 19-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail....

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    • How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis
    • By: Paul Muolo, Mathew Padilla
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 29-01-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The authors reveal how human behavior and greed drove the demand, supply, and the investor appetite for these types of loans....

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    • A Holistic Approach to Behavioral Finance
    • By: Meir Statman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Professor Meir Statman explores how life well-being, the overarching aim of individuals in the third generation of behavioral finance, is underpinned by financial well-being, and how life well-being extends beyond financial well-being to family, friendship, religion, health, work, and education.

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    • How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation
    • By: Daniel Gross
    • Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
    • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this up to the minute account of the current financial crisis, Dan Gross goes step by step through the timeline leading up to the October 2008 bail-out and explains what exactly happened....

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    • How the Search for the Good Life Can Change the World
    • By: Homi Kharas
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Rise of the Global Middle Class traces the history of the middle class from its origins in Victorian England to present day India....

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    • Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Walter Scheidel
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....

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