Social Economic Policies

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    • And Other Essays
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Thomas Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes....

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    • The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality....

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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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    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • 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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    • The Real Business of Finance
    • By: John Kay
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates....

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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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    • By: Jerry Z. Muller
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 24-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Jerry Muller uncovers the damage our obsession with metrics is causing and shows how we can begin to fix the problem. Filled with examples from education, medicine, and more, this book explains why the seemingly irresistible pressure to quantify performance distorts and distracts....

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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 Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
    • By: Ben S. Bernanke
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A former chair of the Federal Reserve explains the transformation of one our most powerful and consequential institutions....

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    • The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
    • By: Andreas Malm
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power....

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    • How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
    • By: Katharina Pistor
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? Find out....

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    • Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
    • By: Richard Heinberg
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits....

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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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce....

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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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    • An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Joseph E. Stiglitz, along with Carter Dougherty and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, lays out the economic framework for a Europe with faster growth that is more equitably shared....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • 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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