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    A Brief History of Equality

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Capital: Volume 1

    A Critique of Political Economy

    by Karl Marx ...
    Narrated by Malk Williams ...

    Unabridged

    31 hours 41 min

    One of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates.Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis. Arguing that capitalism would cause an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, he predicted ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Skin in the Game

    Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Narrated by Joe Ochman ...
    series Incerto

    Unabridged

    8 hours 20 min

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from theauthor of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibilityIn his most provocative and practical book yet,one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Good Economics for Hard Times

    Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

    by Esther Duflo, Abhijit V. Banerjee ...
    Narrated by James Lurie ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 44 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

    by Catherine Belton ...
    Narrated by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 49 min

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘An outstanding exposé of Putin and his criminal pals … [A] long-awaited, must read book’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Books about modern Russia abound … Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is the best and most important on modern Russia’ THE TIMESA chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB’s renaissance, Putin’s rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

    by Tom Burgis ...
    Narrated by Tom Burgis ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 58 min

    SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough … This terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it’ GEORGE MONBIOT, GUARDIAN AN ECONOMIST AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020‘When you pick this book up, you won’t be able to put it down’ MISHA GLENNY, author of MCMAFIA‘Gripping, ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    On Fire

    The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

    by Naomi Klein ...
    Narrated by Naomi Klein, Rebecca Lowman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 21 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.On Fire by Naomi Klein is read by Rebecca Lowman with an introduction read by the author.For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet - and the champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its centre. Her books have defined our era. On Fire gathers for the first time more than a ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

    by Walter Rodney ...
    Narrated by Mirron Willis ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis. In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    Narrated by Niall Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 35 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?While populist rulers certainly ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Another Now

    Dispatches from an Alternative Present

    by Yanis Varoufakis ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer.Imagine it is 2025. Years earlier, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a global hi-tech uprising has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work, money, land, digital networks and politics have ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Discrimination and Disparities

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 2 min

    An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities ariseEconomic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims of genetics. Others believe that those who are less fortunate are victims of the more fortunate.Discrimination and Disparities ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    I, Millennial

    One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires and Everything Else

    by Tom Ballard ...
    Narrated by Tom Ballard ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 30 min

    ‘A damn hilarious read.’ Nazeem Hussain‘A true barbarian.’ **Andrew BoltOur world is in chaos lol. And no, Australian Millennials, it’s not your imagination: things are especially f**ked for us.**Millions of Baby Boomers got beach houses, free education, jobs for life and a franking credit-fed retirement. But Millennials have been handed a housing crisis, crippling student debt, the gig economy, a ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Sovereign Individual

    Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

    by James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg ...
    Narrated by Michael David Axtell ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 20 min

    INCLUDES A NEW PREFACE WRITTEN BY PETER THIEL, FOUNDER OF PAYPAL!Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century.The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Value(s): An Economist’s Guide to Everything That Matters

    by Mark Carney ...
    Narrated by Mark Carney ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 18 min

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERHorrified by the current financial crisis? Want to learn how we might get out of it?This is a pivotal moment in our economy. With the markets in free-fall, financial challenges are growing for us all. A winter of inflation and spiralling energy costs looms. But it doesn’t have to be this way. As former Governor for the Bank of England Mark Carney said to the BBC: ‘The ... Read more

    $58.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Late Victorian Holocausts

    El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

    by Mike Davis ...
    Narrated by James Patrick Cronin ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 41 min

    Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Entrepreneurial State

    Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

    by Mariana Mazzucato ...
    Narrated by Amy Finegan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato, read by Amy Finegan.According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way. But what if all this was wrong? What if, from Silicon Valley to medical breakthroughs, the public sector has been the boldest and most ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

    by Martin Wolf ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 16 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Liberal democracy is in recession and authoritarianism is on the rise. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and spurned, even in democracy's notional heartlands. Around the world, powerful voices argue that capitalism is better without democracy; others that democracy is better without capitalism. This book is a forceful ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A People's Guide to Capitalism

    An Introduction to Marxist Economics

    by Hadas Thier ...
    Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the "experts." Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Edible Economics

    A Hungry Economist Explains the World

    by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    Narrated by Homer Todiwala ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 5 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a more interesting and balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Coming of Neo-Feudalism

    A Warning to the Global Middle Class

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 33 min

    Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Fully Automated Luxury Communism

    by Aaron Bastani ...
    Narrated by Shaun Grindell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 42 min

    A different kind of politics for a new kind of society-beyond work, scarcity, and capitalism In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury, and happiness-for everyone. Technological advance will reduce the value of commodities-food, healthcare, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Shutdown

    How Covid Shook the World's Economy

    by Adam Tooze ...
    Narrated by Adam Tooze, Mr Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 37 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in Covid-19's wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Why Marx Was Right

    2nd Edition

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Narrated by Roger Clark ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism-that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on-he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    GO BIG

    How To Fix Our World

    by Ed Miliband ...
    Narrated by Ed Miliband ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.** INCLUDES BONUS CHAPTER: IN CONVERSATION WITH GEOFF LLOYD ***A Guardian, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book to Look Out for in 2021*'GO BIG should be the rallying cry of progressives around the world' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind______**Good news: the solutions to our problems alread... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial