World Economics

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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: 28-11-17
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Hungry Economist Explains the World
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world....

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    • A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
    • By: Ed Conway
    • Narrated by: Ed Conway
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • See the history of human civilization from a new perspective - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - literally from the ground up....

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    • Why Nations Succeed or Fail
    • By: Ray Dalio
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....

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    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 605 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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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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    • Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
    • By: Joe Studwell
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Impressive in scope, How Asia Works is essential listening for anyone interested in a region that will shape the future of the world....

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    • A Very Short Introduction, 4th edition
    • By: John Pinder, Simon Usherwood
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this fully updated fourth edition, Pinder and Usherwood cover the migrant crisis and the UK's decision to leave the Union, set in the context of a body that is now involved in most areas of public policy....

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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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    • The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
    • By: Raoul McLaughlin
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran)....

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    • The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
    • By: J. C. Sharman
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy....

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    • Why Nations Succeed or Fail
    • By: Ray Dalio
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 784 ratings
    • An examination of history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....

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    • How Trade Shaped the World
    • By: William J. Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce....

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    • The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
    • By: Craig R. Roach
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 15-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Simply Electrifying brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world....

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    • The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
    • By: Mark Koyama, Jared Rubin
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 17-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and colonialism....

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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: 27-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 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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    • Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
    • By: Tim Harford
    • Narrated by: Tim Harford
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 590 ratings
    • Using 10 simple rules for understanding numbers - plus one golden rule - this extraordinarily insightful book shows how if we keep our wits about us, thinking carefully about the way numbers are sourced and presented, we can look around us and see with clarity how the world adds up....

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