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    • Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works
    • By: Timothy Taylor
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Economics isn't just about numbers: It's about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists....

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    • The History of a Dangerous Idea
    • By: Mark Blyth
    • Narrated by: Fred Stella
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse....

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    • How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
    • By: Atif Mian, Amir Sufi
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Atif Mian and Amir Sufi reveal in House of Debt how the Great Recession and Great Depression were caused by a large run-up in household debt....

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    • How to Save the World from Financialisation
    • By: Grace Blakeley
    • Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 13-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....

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    • A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
    • By: Charles Wheelan
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Consider the $20 bill. It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity....

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    • By: Eric Lonergan, Mark Blyth
    • Narrated by: Eric Lonergan, Mark Blyth
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 29-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us experience day in and day out feels increasingly uncertain, unfair, and ever more expensive....

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    • How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream
    • By: Andy Stern, Lee Kravitz
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The idea of a universal basic income for all Americans is controversial, but American attitudes are shifting....

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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: 11-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 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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    • Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
    • By: Richard Heinberg
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits....

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    • How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
    • By: Brink Lindsey, Steven M. Teles
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. Lindsey and Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit....

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    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....

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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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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Felipe B. Larrain
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Macroeconomics takes a broad perspective on the economy of a country or region; it studies economic changes in the aggregate, collecting data on production, unemployment, inflation, consumption, investment, trade, and other aspects of national and international economic life....

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    • A Guide to His Economic Thought
    • By: Eamonn Butler
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • One of the great economists of the 20th century, Milton Friedman has always challenged the prevailing economic orthodoxy....

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    • Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
    • By: Roger E. A. Farmer
    • Narrated by: John Curran
    • Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 29-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The financial crisis that crested in 2008 destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking that had guided policymakers for a generation. But what will take its place? Listen to find out....

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    • A Cure for Capitalism
    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society....

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    • How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
    • By: Frank Trentmann
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 33 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers....

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