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  • Why Nations Fail cover art

    • Why Nations Fail

    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • Misbehaving

    • The Making of Behavioral Economics
    • By: Richard H. Thaler
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals....

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    • Titan

    • The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....

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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
    • Release date: 15-09-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 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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    • The Lords of Easy Money

    • How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
    • By: Christopher Leonard
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press....

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    • The Wages of Destruction

    • The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
    • By: Adam Tooze
    • Narrated by: Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
    • Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings

    • An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period....

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  • All the Devils Are Here cover art

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  • A Little History of Economics cover art

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  • China's Economy cover art

    • China's Economy

    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: Arthur R. Kroeber
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • Economics in One Lesson

    • By: Henry Hazlitt
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-1999
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings

    • Called by H.L. Mencken, "one of the few economists in history who could really write," Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliant but concise work....

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    • Money Mischief

    • Episodes in Monetary History
    • By: Milton Friedman
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 16-08-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The work of 2 obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan....

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    • The Infidel and the Professor

    • David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship of two towering Enlightenment thinkers that had great consequences for modern thought....

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    • The Great Leveler

    • 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: 10-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 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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    • 1493

    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • Money and Promises

    • A History of the World in Seven Deals
    • By: Paolo Zannoni
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a thriving metropolis, a powerhouse of global trade, and a city that stood at the centre of Mediaeval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was running out of coins. In the face of financial crisis, it was here that the foundations of modern banking were born.

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    • These Are the Plunderers

    • How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
    • By: Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
    • Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • These Are the Plunderers traces the thirty-year history of corporate takeovers in America and private equity’s increasing dominance....

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    • China After Mao

    • The Rise of a Superpower
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....

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    • Against the Gods

    • The Remarkable Story of Risk
    • By: Peter L. Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Mike Fraser
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past.

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    • Seapower States

    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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