Economic Sociology

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    • The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
    • By: Lech Blaine
    • Narrated by: Nick John
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-2021
    • Language: English
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    • In this perceptive and often hilarious essay, Lech Blaine dissects some top blokes, with particular focus on Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese, but stretching back to Bob Hawke and Kerry Packer....

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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: 10-10-2017
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
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    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-2012
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-2016
    • Language: English
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    • From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broad, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class....

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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-2020
    • Language: English
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    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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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: 27-08-2019
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
    • By: Jonathan Malesic
    • Narrated by: David Booth
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing....

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    • Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
    • By: Ruha Benjamin
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-2021
    • Language: English
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    • From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity....

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    • Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
    • By: Ashley Mears
    • Narrated by: Mia Barron
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-2020
    • Language: English
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    • A sociologist and former fashion model takes listeners inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 27-07-2005
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: B. R. Ambedkar
    • Narrated by: Chandrahas Shetty
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 24-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Uncover the historical and social roots of caste discrimination in Who Were the Shudras? by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. This groundbreaking work challenges the traditional narratives of Hindu society, offering a meticulous examination of the origins and status of the Shudra caste.

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    • The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
    • By: Musa al-Gharbi
    • Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively.

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
    • By: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • From Malcolm Gladwell’s hit podcast Revisionist History comes a compendium about one of his greatest obsessions: education....

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    • The Origins of Our Discontents
    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions....

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    • Living on Almost Nothing in America
    • By: Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

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