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Audiobooks for economic history buffs

Trace the thread of history from the Feudal era to the modern mixed economy with these books on economic theory through the ages. 
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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

    $29.99 USD

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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

    $39.99 USD

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    The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes

    The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China

    by Raoul McLaughlin ...
    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 21 min

    The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran). It explores Roman dealings with the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan) and laid claim to the Indus Kingdoms. Further chapters examine the development of Palmyra as a leading caravan city on ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Red Roulette

    An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China

    by Desmond Shum ...
    Narrated by Tim Chiou ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 22 min

    “THE BOOK CHINA DOESN’T WANT YOU TO READ.” —CNNSELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by THE ECONOMIST and FINANCIAL TIMESThis “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New York Times bestseller is narrated by a man who, with his wife, Whitney Duan, rose to the top levels of power and wealth—and then fell out of favor. Whitney had been disappeared four years before, but ... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    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

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    A Little History of Economics

    by Niall Kishtainy ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the fieldWhat causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone; yet the unfamiliar jargon and math ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Slavery’s Capitalism

    A New History of American Economic Development

    by Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman ...
    Narrated by William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, Pam Ward, Ron Butler ...
    series The Early American Studies Series

    Unabridged

    13 hours 50 min

    During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world’s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery’s Capitalism argues for slavery’s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Broken Ladder

    How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die

    by Keith Payne ...
    Narrated by James Foster ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 32 min

    A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequalityToday’s inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. In The Broken Ladder psychologist Keith Payne examines how inequality divides us not just economically, but also ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Levelling

    What's Next After Globalization

    by Michael O'Sullivan ...
    Narrated by Jeff Bottoms ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 55 min

    A brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions.The world is at a turning point similar to the fall of communism. Then, many focused on the collapse itself, and failed to see that a bigger trend, globalization, was about to take hold. The benefits of globalization--through the freer ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Great Degeneration

    How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    Narrated by Paul Slack ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 18 min

    Bestselling author and world-renowned historian Niall Ferguson has won widespread acclaim for thought-provoking works such as Civilization and High Financier. The Great Degeneration tackles nothing less than the decline of Western civilization. Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the erosion of the West's once rock-solid foundations. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Enlightened Capitalists

    Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good

    by James O'Toole ...
    Narrated by David Marantz ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 4 min

    An expert on ethical leadership analyzes the complicated history of business people who tried to marry the pursuit of profits with virtuous organizational practices—from British industrialist Robert Owen to American retailer John Cash Penney and jeans maker Levi Strauss to such modern-day entrepreneurs Anita Roddick and Tom Chappell.Today’s business leaders are increasingly pressured by citizens, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Yellen

    The Trailblazing Economist Who Navigated an Era of Upheaval

    by Jon Hilsenrath ...
    Narrated by Jon Hilsenrath, Seth Podowitz ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 54 min

    “A vivid portrait of an exceptional woman and a lively history of the economic and financial crises that helped make the treasury secretary and former Fed chair who she is today.” —Sylvia Nasar, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind“Captivating. . . . Part biography, part history of ideas, the book provides a fascinating window into the ways thinking on economic policy has ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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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

    $31.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Upside of Down

    Why the Rise of the Rest is Good for the West

    by Charles Kenny ...
    Narrated by Tim Andres Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world's only superpower - so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America's well-being was assessed according to entirely different factors? In The Upside of Down, Charles Kenny argues that America's so-called decline ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Fulfillment

    Winning and Losing in One-Click America

    by Alec MacGillis ...
    Narrated by Danny Gavigan ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 22 min

    An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth “a billion dollars” that underpaid its workers while forcing them to engage in repetitive and sometimes ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    How Not to Network a Nation

    The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)

    by Benjamin Peters ...
    Narrated by Dana Hickox ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation -- to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    A Century of Wealth in America

    by Edward N. Wolff ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 38 min

    Understanding wealth in the United States-who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it-is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff, one of the world's great experts on the economics of wealth, offers an authoritative account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Planet India

    How the Fastest Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the World

    by Mira Kamdar ...
    Narrated by Shelly Frasier ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    A Lively, indispensable, cutting-edge exploration of our stake in India's gambit to transform itself from a developing country into a global powerhouse in record time. India is everywhere-Indian studios produce animated features and special effects for Hollywood movies; Indian software manages our health records; and Indian customer service centers answer our calls. A country of English speakers ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Blood Diamonds

    Tracing the Path of the World’s Most Precious Stones

    by Greg Campbell ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    The true story of the events that inspired the feature film Blood DiamondFirst discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These “blood diamonds” are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the international diamond industry. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    How the Other Half Banks

    Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

    by Mehrsa Baradaran ...
    Narrated by Priya Ayyar ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 36 min

    The United States has two separate banking systems today―one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit.Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced to wander through a Wild West of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Misunderstanding Financial Crises

    Why We Don't See Them Coming

    by Gary B. Gorton ...
    Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the United States, that such upheavals were a thing of the past. Gary B. Gorton, a prominent expert on financial crises, argues that economists fundamentally misunderstand what they are, why they occur, and why there were none in the U.S. from 1934 to 2007. Misunderstanding Financial Crises offers a back-to-basics ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    A History of the World Economy from the Iron Age to the Information Age

    by Philip Coggan ...
    Narrated by Philip Coggan, Kris Dyer ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 29 min

    A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today.From the development of international trade fairs in the twelfth century to the innovations made in China, India, and the Arab world, it turns out that historical economies were much more sophisticated that we might imagine, tied together by webs of credit and financial instruments ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Goliath

    The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

    by Matt Stoller ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Davis ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 17 min

    “Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Dark Towers

    Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

    by David Enrich ...
    Narrated by BJ Harrison ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 11 min

    “In Dark Towers, David Enrich tells the story of how one of the world’s mightiest banks careened off the rails, threatening everything from our financial system to our democracy through its reckless entanglement with Donald Trump. Darkly fascinating and yet all too real, it’s a tale that will keep you up at night.”— John Carreyrou, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of Bad ... Read more

    $31.99 USD