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Economic Policy Audiobooks

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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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    The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

    by John Perkins ...
    Narrated by Tom Taylorson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 22 min

    Shocking bestseller: the original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent seventy-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into more than thirty languages.New revelations: featuring fifteen explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of Perkins’s classic bestseller brings the story of economic hit men (EHMs) up to ... Read more

    $29.99 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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    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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    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

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    Consequences of Capitalism

    Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

    by Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone ...
    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 10 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current ... Read more

    $22.99 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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    Thank You for Being Late

    An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

    by Thomas L. Friedman ...
    Narrated by Mr Oliver Wyman ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 47 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman, read by Oliver Wyman.From the Pulitzer Prize winner and No.1 international bestselling author of The World is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century.We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it ... Read more

    $21.99 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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    Democracy at Work

    A Cure for Capitalism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    Narrated by Shawn Compton ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve. One key cause for this intolerable state ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    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

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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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    Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

    by David Harvey ...
    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 46 min

    To modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most people rarely think to question it, for good or for ill. But knowing what makes capitalism work-and what makes it fail-is crucial to understanding its long-term health, and the vast implications for the global economy that go along with it. In Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, the eminent scholar David Harvey, ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Trade Wars Are Class Wars

    How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

    by Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 32 min

    A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers. Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the ... 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

  • Audiobook

    The Economic Weapon

    The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

    by Nicholas Mulder ...
    Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 25 min

    The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth 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. This ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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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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    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

    Trillion Dollar Triage

    How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic---and Prevented Economic Disaster

    by Nick Timiraos ...
    Narrated by Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 33 min

    The inside story, told with “insight, perspective, and stellar reporting,” of how an unassuming civil servant created trillions of dollars from thin air, combatted a public health crisis, and saved the American economy from a second Great Depression (Alan S. Blinder, former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve).By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. ... Read more

    $63.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Marketcraft

    How Governments Make Markets Work

    by Steven K. Vogel ...
    Narrated by Ryan Burke ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 10 min

    Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally. Rather they are crafted by individuals, firms, and most of all, by governments. Thus "marketcraft" represents a core function of government comparable to statecraft and requires considerable artistry to govern markets effectively. Just as real-world statecraft can be masterful or muddled, so it is with marketcraft. In Marketcraft, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Cogs and Monsters

    What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

    by Diane Coyle ...
    Narrated by Gina Rogers ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 12 min

    Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems-but also opportunities-facing economics today if it is to respond effectively to these dizzying changes and help policymakers solve the world's crises. ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Everything for Everyone

    The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy

    by Nathan Schneider ...
    Narrated by Matt Amendt ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 51 min

    The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback.A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But, as Nathan Schneider shows, an alternative to the robber-baron economy is hiding in plain sight; we just need to ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Capitalists, Arise!

    End Economic Inequality, Grow the Middle Class, Heal the Nation

    by Peter Georgescu ...
    Narrated by Wes Bleed ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 27 min

    Peter Georgescu arrived in this country as a penniless Romanian refugee and rose to become the CEO of Young & Rubicam. This is why he's so heartsick that with flat wages, disappearing jobs, and a shrinking middle class, his kind of rags-to-riches story doesn't seem possible now. But he has a message for his fellow CEOs: we're the ones who must take the lead in fixing the economy.Marshaling deeply ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Monopolized

    Life in the Age of Corporate Power

    by David Dayen ...
    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 19 min

    Over the last forty years our choices have narrowed, our opportunities have shrunk, and our lives have become governed by a handful of very large and very powerful corporations. Today, practically everything we buy, everywhere we shop, and every service we secure comes from a heavily concentrated market. This is a world where four major banks control most of our money, four airlines shuttle most ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial