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Government & Business Audiobooks

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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 Deficit Myth

    Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy

    by Stephanie Kelton ...
    Narrated by Stephanie Kelton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 52 min

    'Game-changing ... Read it!' - Mariana Mazzucato In a world of epic, overlapping crises, Stephanie Kelton is an indispensable source of moral clarity ... the truths that she teaches about money, debt, and deficits give us the tools we desperately need to build a safe future for all. Read it - then put it to use. - Naomi KleinThe leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern ... Read more

    $37.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The End of the World is Just the Beginning

    Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

    by Peter Zeihan ...
    Narrated by Peter Zeihan ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 44 min

    2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.Globe-spanning supply chains are ... Read more

    $52.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    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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    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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    Basic Economics, Fifth Edition

    A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 47 min

    In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives. Drawing on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history, Sowell explains basic economic principles for the general ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The New Corporation

    How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy

    by Joel Bakan ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 41 min

    A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation.“A very important book, an arresting study directed to a central issue of the times” (Noam Chomsky), from the author of The ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Sold Out

    How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy

    by James Rickards ...
    Narrated by James Rickards ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The global supply chain is broken, perhaps for good. How did we get here and what happens next?Empty shelves, queues for petrol and energy shortages: crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now become a reality as global shipping times are squeezed, containers lie unopened at docks and supply shortages push up inflation, increasing the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    اعترافات قرصان اقتصادي

    by جون بير كنز ت: بسام أبو غزالة, جون بير كنز ت: بسام أبو غزالة ...
    Narrated by مهاب شريف ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 49 min

    القراصنة قديماً.. كانوا يجوبون البحار قاطعين طرقها بوجوه لفحتها حرارة الشمس وأشعتها، وأعين متربصة عادة ماتكون إحداها معصوبة وسيوف لامعة وأطماع نهمة، يبحثون عن السفن وما تحمل من كنوز وبضائع وأموال.. هؤلاء صاروا فى أيامنا المعاصرة يلبسون البذات الأنيقة، يحملون حقائبهم ومؤهلاتهم ودرجاتهم العلمية والوظيفية الراقية ليجوبوا العالم أراضيه وبحاره ومحيطاته، ولكن ليس للإستيلاء على السفن وإنما على الدول . ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Billionaires in World Politics

    by Peter Hagel ...
    Narrated by Stephen Bel Davies ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 46 min

    Billionaires in World Politics shows how the privatization of politics assumes a new dimension when billionaires wield power in world politics, which requires a rethinking of individual agency in international relations. Structural changes have generated new opportunities for individuals to become extremely rich and to engage in politics across borders. The political agency of billionaires is ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Hard Choices

    by Peter Ricketts ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 50 min

    A groundbreaking exploration of the difficult decisions Britain faces outside the EU in a fast-changing world. After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to an end. Disastrous foreign wars, global recession, the meteoric rise of China and India and the COVID pandemic have undermined the power of the West's international ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Frontiers in Social Innovation

    The Essential Handbook for Creating, Deploying, and Sustaining Creative Solutions to Systemic Problems

    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 33 min

    The one book every innovator and every entrepreneur needs to make a difference in the world. Social innovation and entrepreneurship are rising forces in the world. As stakeholder capitalism takes root, and as the extent of systemic challenges becomes clear-from climate change to income inequality to food security to healthcare and beyond-more and more of the best and brightest will hear the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Truth

    The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power

    by Mary Mapes ...
    Narrated by Mary Mapes ...

    Abridged

    4 hours 59 min

    Mary Mapes's Truth (previously published as Truth & Duty) was made into the 2015 film Truth, starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace and Elizabeth Moss.A riveting play-by-play of a reporter getting and defending a story that recalls All the President's Men, Truth puts readers in the center of the "60 Minutes II" story on George W. Bush's shirking of his National Guard duty. The ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Instant Economist

    You Need to Know About How the Economy Works

    by Timothy Taylor ...
    Narrated by Don Hagen ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 35 min

    The Only Economics Book You Will Ever Need. Economics isn't just about numbers: It's about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists-when we work, save for the future, invest, pay taxes, and buy our groceries. Yet many of us feel lost when the subject arises. Award-winning professor Timothy Taylor tackles all the key questions and hot topics of both microeconomics and ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Hörwissen kompakt - In 77 Minuten das Wichtigste zur Betriebswirtschaft

    by Gabriela Andrist, Sascha Gloor ...
    Narrated by Gabriela Andrist, Sascha Gloor ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 19 min

    In diesem Audio-Book Hörwissen Kompakt zum Thema Betriebswirtschaft befindet sich eine kurze, verständliche Zusammenfassung des gesamten Schulstoffes. Der Inhalt wurde von erfahrenen Lehrpersonen verfasst und erklärt. Da Audio-Book dient daher als optimale Repetition. ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Introduction to Governmental System

    by Introbooks Team ...
    Narrated by Tracy Tupman ...

    Unabridged

    48 min

    When a massive fire broke out somewhere, firefighters come and extinguish the fire. When a terrorist attack occurs somewhere, police or elite forces arrive and eliminate the terrorists. Similarly, when a person develops any kind of diseases, goes to the doctor for treatment. There are so many examples of living in a fully developed and conducive society. But, at this, a question may flash into the ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    All the Presidents' Bankers

    The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power

    by Nomi Prins ...
    Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 56 min

    Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents' Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street that transcends a simple analysis of money driving politics-or greed driving bankers. Nomi Prins ushers us into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots, and Ivy League universities that binds ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Common Sense

    The Investor's Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth

    by Joel Greenblatt ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 51 min

    The United States is supposed to offer economic opportunity to everyone. So why are so many people left out in the cold? Globalization and technological change have ravaged the workforce. Hostile immigration policies actually keep Americans from getting jobs. Our education system is deeply unequal, denying opportunity to millions right from the start. Still, we can't seem to break from the status ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Passion for Leadership

    Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service

    by Robert M. Gates ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale.Across the realms of civic and private enterprise alike, bureaucracies vitally impact our security, freedoms, and everyday ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Money Well Spent?

    The Truth behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History

    by Michael Grabell ...
    Narrated by William Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 19 min

    The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administration’s handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obama’s “audacity of hope” met the austerity of reality. Central to this is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009—the largest economic recovery plan in American history. Senator Mitch McConnell gave a taste of the enormity of ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    La batalla por el paraíso

    Puerto Rico y el capitalismo del desastre

    by Naomi Klein ...
    Narrated by Valentina Latina ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 4 min

    Entre los escombros del huracán Maria, los puertorriqueños y los “Puertopians” ultra-ricos están atrapados en una batalla campal sobre cómo reconstruir la isla. En esta vital y asombrosa investigación, la autora de best-sellers y activista Naomi Klein, revela cómo las fuerzas de las políticas de "shock" y del capitalismo del desastre, buscan minar la visión radical y resiliente de una recuperación ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Public Option

    How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality

    by Ganesh Sitaraman, Anne L. Alstott ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    Whenever you go to your local public library, send mail via the post office, or visit Yosemite, you are taking advantage of a longstanding American tradition: the public option. Some of the most useful and beloved institutions in American life are public options-yet they are seldom celebrated as such. These government-supported opportunities coexist peaceably alongside private options, ensuring ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Practical Innovation in Government

    How Front-Line Leaders Are Transforming Public-Sector Organizations

    by Alan G Robinson, Dean M. Schroeder ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    This book is a comprehensive guide to an exciting new approach that managers at any level can use to transform their corners of government.Whether people want more government or less, everyone wants an efficient government. Traditional thinking is that this requires a government to be run more like a business. But a government is not a business, and this approach merely replaces old problems with ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Modern Detective

    How Corporate Intelligence Is Reshaping the World

    by Tyler Maroney ...
    Narrated by William DeMeritt ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 12 min

    A fascinating examination of the world of private investigators by a 21st-century private eye.Today's world is complicated: companies are becoming more powerful than nations, the lines between public and corporate institutions grow murkier, and the internet is shredding our privacy. To combat these onslaughts, people everywhere -- rich and not so rich, in business and in their personal lives -- ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial