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Economic History Audiobooks

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    Debt - Updated and Expanded

    The First 5,000 Years

    by David Graeber ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 48 min

    Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition : David Graeber's “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, ... Read more

    $65.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Price of Peace

    Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

    by Zachary D. Carter ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 50 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas“A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes.”—The Wall Street Journal* ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

    A Brief History of Capitalism

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

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    Random House presents the audio edition of **Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis, read by Leighton Pugh.Why is there so much inequality?** In this short book, world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answer his daughter Xenia’s deceptively simple question. Using personal stories and famous myths – from Oedipus and Faust to ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How Democracies Die

    The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future

    by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, read by Fred Sanders.Two Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face todayDemocracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Capital and Ideology

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

    Unabridged

    48 hours 57 min

    The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic systemThomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think ... Read more

    $58.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Why Nations Fail

    The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson ...
    Narrated by Dan Woren ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 55 min

    Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Courage Is Calling

    A Book About Bravery

    by Ryan Holiday ...
    Narrated by Ryan Holiday ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 5 min

    Fortune favours the bold. All great leaders of history have known this, and were successful because of the risks they dared to take. But today so many of us are paralysed by fear.Drawing on ancient Stoic wisdom and examples across history and around the world, Ryan Holiday shows why courage is so important, and how to cultivate it in our own lives. Courage is not simply physical bravery but also ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Big Short

    Inside the Doomsday Machine

    by Michael Lewis ...
    Narrated by Michael Lewis, Jesse Boggs ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 27 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Big Short by Michael Lewis, read by Jesse Boggs and the author.'We fed the monster until it blew up ...'While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune.From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Lights Out

    Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

    by Thomas Gryta, Ted Mann ...
    Narrated by James Edward Thomas ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 38 min

    **A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER"If you’re in any kind of leadership role—whether at a company, a non-profit, or somewhere else—there’s a lot you can learn here."—Bill Gates, Gates NotesHow could General Electric—perhaps America’s most iconic corporation—suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace?**This is the definitive history of General Electric’s epic decline, as told by the two Wall ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Civilization

    The West and the Rest

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

    Unabridged

    13 hours 5 min

    The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Niall Ferguson's provocative bestseller, Civilization: The West and the Rest, read brilliantly by the author himself.If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Value of Everything

    Making and Taking in the Global Economy

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

    Unabridged

    11 hours 34 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato, read by Amy Finegan.Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight.In modern capitalism, value-extraction is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Moneyland

    Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back

    by Oliver Bullough ...
    Narrated by Oliver Bullough ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 36 min

    An Economist Politics and Current Affairs book of the year. Once upon a time, if an official stole money, there wasn't much he could do with it. He could buy himself a new car or build himself a nice house or give it to his friends and family, but that was about it. If he kept stealing, the money would just pile up in his house until he had no rooms left to put it in, or it was eaten by mice. And ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Crashed

    How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

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

    Unabridged

    25 hours 27 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook editi****on of Crashed by Adam Tooze, read by Simon Vance, with an introduction read by the author.In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade later its spectre still haunts us. As the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that had symbolised the West's ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Adults In The Room

    My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment

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

    Unabridged

    20 hours 14 min

    Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis.*** 'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) ***What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How Asia Works

    Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

    by Joe Studwell ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 46 min

    In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle, with countries seen as not just development prodigies but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise. In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills extensive research into the economics of nine countries-Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Essential John Stuart Mill, The (Essential Scholars)

    by Sandra J. Peart ...
    Narrated by Satauna Howery ...
    Audiobook 9 - Essential Scholars

    Unabridged

    3 hours 25 min

    The oldest of nine children, John Stuart Mill was born on May 20, 1806; he died in France, where he spent many of his later years, on May 7, 1873.Mill had a very extraordinary, strenuous education, overseen by his ambitious father James, who believed that one becomes improved via education and, once educated, that is the end of the matter. John Mill was reading Greek at age three and Latin at the ... Read more

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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

  • Audiobook

    When McKinsey Comes to Town

    The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

    by Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe ...
    Narrated by Ari Fliakos ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.An explosive exposé of the world's most prestigious and successful management consultancy____'Panoramic, meticulously reported and ultimately devastating' Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain'Every page made my blood boil' Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel laureate, author of The Price of Inequality____... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Slouching Towards Utopia

    An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

    by Brad de Long ...
    Narrated by Allan Aquino ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 12 min

    From one of the world's leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century - a century that left us vastly richer, yet still profoundly dissatisfied.Before 1870, most people lived in dire poverty, the benefits of the slow crawl of invention continually offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Quants

    How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It

    by Scott Patterson ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 10 min

    In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT. With him was Ken Griffin, who was the tough-as-nails head of Citadel Investment Group. There, too, were Cliff Asness, the sharp ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Makers and Takers

    The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

    by Rana Foroohar ...
    Narrated by Rachel Fulginiti ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 25 min

    **Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America?"A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times**In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

    Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability

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

    Unabridged

    10 hours 20 min

    The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe’s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, ‘the emerging rock star of Europe’s anti-austerity uprising’ (Telegraph), shows that the origins of the collapse go far deeper than our leaders are prepared to admit – and that we have done nothing so far to fix them ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    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

  • Audiobook

    Kochland

    by Christopher Leonard ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 15 min

    Shortlisted for the 2019 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year.‘A landmark book....A massively reported deep dive into the unparalleled corporate industrial giant Koch Industries....This impressively researched and well-rendered book also serves as a biography of Charles Koch, with Leonard providing an evenhanded treatment of the tycoon. Leonard's work is on par with Steve Coll's ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial