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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
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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 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 280 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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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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    • America and the Crisis of Global Power
    • By: Zbigniew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-2012
    • Language: English
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    • In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Lawrence Freedman
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Ukraine and the Art of Strategy provides an account of the origins and course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict through the lens of strategy....

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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 We Lost Trust and Confidence in America's Generals and Politicians
    • By: Stuart Scheller
    • Narrated by: Stuart Scheller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Combat-decorated Marine officer Stuart Scheller speaks out against the debacle of the Afghan pullout as the culmination of a decades-long and still-ongoing betrayal of military members by top leadership, from generals to the commander in chief, comes to light....

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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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    • Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom
    • By: Thomas G. West
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-2020
    • Language: English
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    • This book provides a complete overview of the American Founders' political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these ideas....

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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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    • A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
    • By: Andy Greenberg
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....

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    • The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)
    • By: George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison
    • Narrated by: George Monbiot
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; even the planet we inhabit – the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name....

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