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Economics Audiobooks

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    Bad Samaritans

    The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

    by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    Narrated by Jim Bond ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 15 min

    With irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of real-life examples, Ha-Joon Chang blasts holes in the "World Is Flat" orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other neo-liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, today's economic superpowers-from the United ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    Socialism

    An Economic and Sociological Analysis

    by Ludwig von Mises ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 7 min

    Published in 1922 during those dark and dreary years of socialism's near-complete triumph, Socialism stunned the socialist world. Mises has given us a profoundly important treatise that assaults socialism in all its guises, a work that discusses every major aspect of socialism and leaves no stone unturned. A few of the numerous topics discussed include the success of socialist ideas; life under ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Palo Alto

    A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

    by Malcolm Harris ...
    Narrated by Patrick Harrison ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 20 min

    The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip assemblers, showing how Northern California created the world as we know itPalo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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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

    $44.99 USD

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    Range

    Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

    by David Epstein ...
    Narrated by Will Damron ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 46 min

    The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more.“The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes“Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.” —Daniel H. Pink... ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    American Amnesia

    How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Rich

    by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson ...
    Narrated by Holter Graham ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 29 min

    A “provocative” (Kirkus Reviews), timely, and topical work that examines what’s good for American business and what’s good for Americans—and why those interests are misaligned.In American Amnesia, bestselling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson trace the economic and political history of the United States over the last century and show how a viable mixed economy has long been the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Chip War

    The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology

    by Chris Miller ...
    Narrated by Stephen Graybill ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 38 min

    The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The New York Times).You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Essential Hayek, The (Essential Scholars)

    by Donald J. Boudreaux ...
    Narrated by Satauna Howery, Michael Lenz ...
    Audiobook 1 - Essential Scholars

    Unabridged

    2 hours 43 min

    Nobel laureate economist F.A.Hayek first revolutionized economists' understanding of markets, and then profoundly challenged the public's understanding of government. Hayek is one of only a few social scientists over the past 200 years who thoroughly rethought the relationship between individual people and both the market and the state. While countless works have discussed the importance of Hayek ... Read more

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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

    $19.99 USD

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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

    $29.99 USD

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    The Fiat Standard

    The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization

    by Saifedean Ammous ...
    Narrated by Saifedean Ammous, Guy Swann ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 44 min

    n The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global bestseller The Bitcoin Standard.This time, Ammous delves into the world's earlier shift from the gold standard to today's system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy

    An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity

    by Joseph E Stiglitz ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 53 min

    Inequality is a choice.The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the facts tell a different story—the U.S. today lags behind most other developed nations in measures of inequality and economic mobility. For decades, wages have stagnated for the majority of workers while economic ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Kochland

    The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

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

    Unabridged

    23 hours 15 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * WINNER OF THE J ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD * FINANCIAL TIMES’ BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * NPR FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 * FINALIST FOR THE FINACIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF 2019 * KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOKS OF 2019**“Superb…Among the best books ever written about an American ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    Human Action, Third Revised Edition

    A Treatise on Economics

    by Ludwig von Mises ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    42 hours 42 min

    Ludwig von Mises is to economics what Albert Einstein is to physics, and Human Action is his greatest work. It is a systematic study that covers every major topic in the science of economics. It is also one of the most convincing indictments of socialism and statism ever penned. When it first appeared in English in 1949, it was a sensation, the largest and most scientific defense of human freedom ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    Built to Last

    Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

    by Jim Collins ...
    Narrated by Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras ...
    Audiobook 2 - Good to Great

    Abridged

    6 hours 16 min

    Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    Regeneration

    Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

    by Paul Hawken ...
    Narrated by Feodor Chin, Bahni Turpin, Lauren Baldwin, Geoffrey Boyes, Alana Kerr Collins, Caroline McLaughlin, Gisela Chípe ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 18 min

    A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller DrawdownRegeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    This Changes Everything

    Capitalism vs. The Climate

    by Naomi Klein ...
    Narrated by Ellen Archer ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 44 min

    The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    The Caesars Palace Coup

    How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street

    by Max Frumes, Sujeet Indap ...
    Narrated by Chris Kipiniak ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 22 min

    It was the most brutal corporate restructuring in Wall Street history. The 2015 bankruptcy brawl for the storied casino giant, Caesars Entertainment, pitted brilliant and ruthless private equity legends against the world's most relentless hedge fund wizards. The Caesars bankruptcy put a twist on the old-fashioned casino heist. Through a $27 billion leveraged buyout and a dizzying string of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Priced Out

    The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care

    by Uwe E. Reinhardt ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 13 min

    From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive-and why it doesn't have to be. Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Sum of the People

    How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age

    by Andrew Whitby ...
    Narrated by David Piggott ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 10 min

    This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance.In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a tradition of counting people that goes back at least ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The One Minute Millionaire

    The Enlightened Way to Wealth

    by Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen ...
    Narrated by Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 41 min

    Two mega-bestselling authors with decades of experience in teaching people how to achieve extraordinary wealth and success share their secrets.Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the phenomenal Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Robert G. Allen, one of the world’s foremost financial experts, have helped thousands of people become millionaires. Now it’s your turn.Is it possible to make a million ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises

    by Ray Dalio ...
    Narrated by Stephen Graybill ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 52 min

    **Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles—whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide—**shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. This template allowed his firm, Bridgewater Associates, to anticipate 2008’s events and navigate them well while others struggled badly.As he ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Power and Progress

    Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

    by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 50 min

    The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the worldA thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communication can either ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Economic Facts and Fallacies

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 46 min

    Economic Facts and Fallacies is designed for people who want to understand economic issues without getting bogged down in economic jargon, graphs, or political rhetoric. Writing in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues, including many that are widely disseminated in the media and by ... Read more

    $19.99 USD