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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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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    • From the Black Death to the Present
    • By: Frank M. Snowden
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 23 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-2020
    • Language: English
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    • A multidisciplinary and comparative investigation of the medical and social history of the major epidemics, this volume touches on themes such as the evolution of medical therapy, plague literature, poverty, the environment, and mass hysteria....

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    • How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals....

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    • From Microorganisms to Megacities
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations....

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    • Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
    • By: Lee McIntyre
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-2021
    • Language: English
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    • In this book, Lee McIntyre shows that anyone can fight back against science deniers, and argues that it's important to do so. Science denial can kill....

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    • The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
    • By: R. R. Palmer, Isser Woloch - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France....

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    • How the Last Financial Crisis Informs Today
    • By: Kerry Killinger, Linda Killinger
    • Narrated by: Gary Bennett
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-2021
    • Language: English
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    • No institution, government, or country is “too big to fail.” A behind-the-scenes account of what led to the 2008 crisis - and may soon lead to a bigger one....

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    • 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers
    • By: James C. Humes
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Ever wish you could captivate your boardroom with the opening line of your presentation, like Winston Churchill in his most memorable speeches? You can....

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    • 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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    • The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
    • By: Nicholas Mulder
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early 20th century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war....

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    • The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
    • By: Kenneth M. Pollack
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments....

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    • The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
    • By: Quinn Slobodian
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization....

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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: 24-07-2018
    • 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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    • How Trade Shaped the World
    • By: William J. Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-2008
    • Language: English
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    • In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce....

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    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • By: Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

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