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Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
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some interesting bits but too long and opinionated
- By Reuben Schwarz on 01-11-2018
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Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 15-09-2015
- Language: English
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Understanding Complexity
- By: Scott E. Page, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Scott E. Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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Recent years have seen the introduction of concepts from the new and exciting field of complexity science that have captivated the attention of economists, sociologists, engineers, businesspeople, and many others. These include tipping points, the wisdom of crowds, six degrees of separation (or Kevin Bacon), and emergence. Complexity science can shed light on why businesses or economies succeed and fail, how epidemics spread and can be stopped, and what causes ecological systems to rebalance themselves after a disaster.
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Best book on complexity (and I teach this topic and use Page’s book with my students who love it)
- By Nicole Vincent on 13-04-2022
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Understanding Complexity
- Narrated by: Scott E. Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 20-03-2019
- Language: English
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Why Marx Was Right
- 2nd Edition
- By: Terry Eagleton
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking 10 of the most common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on - he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are.
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Infantile and lacking evidence of weight
- By Amazon Customer on 29-07-2020
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Why Marx Was Right
- 2nd Edition
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 10-04-2018
- Language: English
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How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
- By: Peter D Schiff, Andrew J Schiff
- Narrated by: Peter D. Schiff, Andrew J. Schiff
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
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Inspired by How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't - a previously published book by the Schiffs' father Irwin, a widely published economist and activist - How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes incorporates the spirit of the original while tackling the latest economic issues. With wit and humor, the Schiffs explain the roots of economic growth, the uses of capital, the destructive nature of consumer credit, the source of inflation, the importance of trade, savings, and risk, and many other topical principles of economics.
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How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
- Narrated by: Peter D. Schiff, Andrew J. Schiff
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2020
- Language: English
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Adaptive Markets
- Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
- By: Andrew W. Lo
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
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Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe - and as financial bubbles, crashes, and crises suggest. This is one of the biggest debates in economics, and the value or futility of investment management and financial regulation hang on the outcome. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew W. Lo cuts through this debate with a new framework.
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Boring
- By rod on 07-02-2018
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Adaptive Markets
- Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 18-01-2018
- Language: English
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The Myth of Capitalism
- Monopolies and the Death of Competition
- By: Jonathan Tepper, Denise Hearn
- Narrated by: Pamela Almand
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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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. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are gatekeepers to the digital world. Amazon is capturing almost all online shopping dollars. We have the illusion of choice, but for most critical decisions, we have only one or two companies when it comes to high speed internet, health insurance, medical care, mortgage title insurance, or even consumer goods like toothpaste.
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Fascinating, but extremely US focused
- By Anonymous User on 06-01-2020
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The Myth of Capitalism
- Monopolies and the Death of Competition
- Narrated by: Pamela Almand
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2019
- Language: English
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The Death of Money
- The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
- By: James Rickards
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971. Each collapse was followed by a period of tumult: war, civil unrest, or significant damage to the stability of the global economy. Now James Rickards, the acclaimed author of Currency Wars, shows why another collapse is rapidly approaching - and why this time, nothing less than the institution of money itself is at risk.
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Fantastic content, extremely annoying narrator
- By Mr on 12-03-2017
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The Death of Money
- The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 10-02-2017
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusion de Confusiones
- By: Joseph de la Vega, Charles Mackay, Martin S. Fridon
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Exploring the sometimes hilarious, sometimes devastating impact of crowd behavior and trading trickery on the financial markets, this book brilliantly combines two all-time investment classics. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and Confusión de Confusiones take us from Tulipmania in 1634-when tulips actually traded at a higher price than gold - to the South Sea "bubble" of 1720, and beyond. Securities analyst and author Martin Fridson guides you on a quirky, entertaining, and intriguing journey back through time.
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Not the actual book only a book about the book
- By Anonymous User on 22-10-2021
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusion de Confusiones
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2020
- Language: English
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Democracy at Work
- A Cure for Capitalism
- By: Richard D. Wolff
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve.
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Idealistic and lacking balance
- By Carlos Rozo on 02-04-2022
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Democracy at Work
- A Cure for Capitalism
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-02-2019
- Language: English
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Four Futures
- Life After Capitalism
- By: Peter Frase
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
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Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this postcapitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism, and exterminism might actually entail.
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Engaging and thoughtful
- By Kindle Customer on 19-09-2019
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Four Futures
- Life After Capitalism
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2017
- Language: English
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A People's Guide to Capitalism
- An Introduction to Marxist Economics
- By: Hadas Thier
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the "experts." Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory.
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A People's Guide to Capitalism
- An Introduction to Marxist Economics
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-04-2022
- Language: English
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The Origin of Capitalism
- A Longer View
- By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Ellen Meiksins Wood offers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late and localized product of very specific historical conditions, which required great transformations in social relations and in the relationship between humans and nature.
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Necessary listening for economists
- By Mike on 18-02-2024
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The Origin of Capitalism
- A Longer View
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2021
- Language: English
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Seeing What's Next
- Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
- By: Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, Erik A. Roth
- Narrated by: Joel Leffert
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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Seeing What's Next is a framework for predicting industry winners and losers. Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data, and can lead to costly errors in judgment. Internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners, Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth, present this guide for predicting outcomes in the evolution of any industry.
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Seeing What's Next
- Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
- Narrated by: Joel Leffert
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-01-2007
- Language: English
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Technofeudalism
- What Killed Capitalism
- By: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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No one noticed when capitalism died. Perhaps we were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, or the rise of populism, or the demise of the planet - or all of those cute cats on Instagram. But gradually, quietly, a yet more exploitative new system has taken hold: techno-feudalism. Crafted in the form of a letter to his late father, who first taught him about the power of new technologies to shape human history, Yanis Varoufakis explains how Big Tech has effected an invisible but fundamental transformation in all our lives.
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Great food for thought
- By Brett on 14-09-2024
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Technofeudalism
- What Killed Capitalism
- Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2023
- Language: English
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Global Inequality
- A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
- By: Branko Milanovic
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice.
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Global Inequality
- A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-07-2017
- Language: English
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The End of Growth
- Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
- By: Richard Heinberg
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable natural limits.
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The End of Growth
- Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 30-12-2011
- Language: English
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Choice Theory
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Michael Allingham
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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We make choices all the time - about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational or irrational. But what kind of criteria are we applying when we say that a choice is rational? What guides our own choices, especially in cases where we don't have complete information about the outcomes? What strategies should be applied in making decisions which affect a lot of people, as in the case of government policy?
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- By fabs on 19-06-2023
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Choice Theory
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 13-07-2021
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Economics
- By: Greg Ip
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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After the global financial panic and recession of 2007–2009, you don’t have to be president or a hedge fund manager to know that “It’s the economy, stupid.” Yet while the economy dominates the headlines, how it works and who influences it remain a mystery to most people. In The Little Book of Economics, Greg Ip, an award-winning journalist renowned for making complex economics easy to understand, walks you through how the economy really works.
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The Little Book of Economics
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 23-11-2010
- Language: English
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Freakonomics
- A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- By: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Assume nothing, question everything. This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down and became an international multi-million-copy-selling phenomenon.
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overall good
- By Anonymous User on 08-04-2020
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Freakonomics
- A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 27-07-2005
- Language: English
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Make Time
- How to focus on what matters every day
- By: Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky
- Narrated by: Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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As creators of Google Ventures' renowned 'design sprint', Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products like Gmail and YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own personal habits and routines, looking for ways to help individuals optimise their energy, focus and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days.
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Grab bag of ideas
- By Ben Hosken on 02-11-2018
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Make Time
- How to focus on what matters every day
- Narrated by: Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-09-2018
- Language: English
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