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Best sellers
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21st Century Monetary Policy
- The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
- By: Ben S. Bernanke
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A former chair of the Federal Reserve explains the transformation of one our most powerful and consequential institutions....
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don't buy, horrible narration
- By Mr. Incognito on 05-18-22
By: Ben S. Bernanke
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The Bond King
- How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
- By: Mary Childs
- Narrated by: Mary Childs
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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From the host of NPR’s Planet Money comes the deeply investigated story of how one visionary, ruthless investor changed American finance forever....
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Professional reader needed
- By Paige Turner on 03-20-22
By: Mary Childs
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Important themes, with blind spots
- By Ryan on 09-01-12
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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Discrimination and Disparities
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....
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Hard Pill To Swallow - I’m better for it
- By Charles Abernathy on 01-14-19
By: Thomas Sowell
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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
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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How is it possible that a once-in-a-century pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and left millions more jobless didn't also destroy the country’s economy? One of the biggest reasons: Jay Powell and the Fed....
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ignore the political bias
- By Adam on 04-20-22
By: Nick Timiraos
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
- By: David Harvey
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so....
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Monotone reader
- By Elizabeth on 09-28-17
By: David Harvey
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21st Century Monetary Policy
- The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
- By: Ben S. Bernanke
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A former chair of the Federal Reserve explains the transformation of one our most powerful and consequential institutions....
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don't buy, horrible narration
- By Mr. Incognito on 05-18-22
By: Ben S. Bernanke
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The Bond King
- How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
- By: Mary Childs
- Narrated by: Mary Childs
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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From the host of NPR’s Planet Money comes the deeply investigated story of how one visionary, ruthless investor changed American finance forever....
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Professional reader needed
- By Paige Turner on 03-20-22
By: Mary Childs
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Important themes, with blind spots
- By Ryan on 09-01-12
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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Discrimination and Disparities
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....
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Hard Pill To Swallow - I’m better for it
- By Charles Abernathy on 01-14-19
By: Thomas Sowell
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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
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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How is it possible that a once-in-a-century pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and left millions more jobless didn't also destroy the country’s economy? One of the biggest reasons: Jay Powell and the Fed....
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ignore the political bias
- By Adam on 04-20-22
By: Nick Timiraos
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
- By: David Harvey
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so....
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Monotone reader
- By Elizabeth on 09-28-17
By: David Harvey
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
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In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....
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Data-Driven Books which Lie about Data are Useless
- By Ben on 11-02-19
By: Thomas Piketty, and others
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The System
- Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
- By: Robert B. Reich
- Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....
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Turn Off Your TV. Wake Up and Listen Now!
- By Benchmark on 03-25-20
By: Robert B. Reich
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Good Economics for Hard Times
- Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
- By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day....
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audio is not The best format for a book like this
- By CB on 12-08-19
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, and others
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A Brief History of Equality
- By: Thomas Piketty
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Thomas Piketty
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The Deficit Myth
- Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
- By: Stephanie Kelton
- Narrated by: Stephanie Kelton
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs....
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Good core idea, ruined by polemics
- By Amaze on 06-25-20
By: Stephanie Kelton
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Pandemia
- How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
- By: Alex Berenson
- Narrated by: Alex Berenson
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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The most important fact about the coronavirus pandemic that turned the world upside down in 2020 is that our response to it has been an epic overreaction driven by a disastrous confluence of public and private interests - all of them purporting to “follow the science”....
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Outstanding
- By Robert M on 11-30-21
By: Alex Berenson
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The Whiteness of Wealth
- How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans - and How We Can Fix It
- By: Dorothy A. Brown
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy....
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Thought provoking and very accessible
- By Simone on 05-16-21
By: Dorothy A. Brown
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The War on Normal People
- By: Andrew Yang
- Narrated by: Andrew Yang
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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An eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes - and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy....
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Gave me hope!
- By Libby on 02-19-19
By: Andrew Yang
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End the Fed
- By: Ron Paul
- Narrated by: Bob Craig
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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Most people don't give a second thought to the Federal Reserve, but they should. In End the Fed, Ron Paul argues that the Fed is both corrupt and dangerously autonomous....
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Very clear and understandable
- By Jonnie on 09-19-09
By: Ron Paul
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Left Behind
- The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
- By: Lily Geismer
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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​This piercingly intelligent book shows how bygone policy decisions have left us with skyrocketing income inequality and poverty in America and widened fractures within the Democratic Party that persist to this day....
By: Lily Geismer
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A Generation of Sociopaths
- How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
- By: Bruce Cannon Gibney
- Narrated by: Wayne Pyle
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
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What happens when a society is run by people who are antisocial? Welcome to baby boomer America.....
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A Scary Indictment of My Parents Generation
- By Angie on 10-19-17
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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
- By: John Perkins
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men"....
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Starts off interesting, but a lot of it is filler
- By Zikomo on 06-17-17
By: John Perkins
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The Economic Weapon
- The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
- By: Nicholas Mulder
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early 20th 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....
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History of sanctions during the early 20th century
- By Mehdi Mollahasani on 03-05-22
By: Nicholas Mulder
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Oneness vs. the 1%
- Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
- By: Vandana Shiva, Kartikey Shiva
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaires club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world....
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Bombshell
- By Anonymous User on 02-24-21
By: Vandana Shiva, and others
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Capital and Ideology
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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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 system....
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Big thinking at its finest
- By Amazon Customer on 03-20-20
By: Thomas Piketty, and others
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The Courage to Act
- A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
- By: Ben S. Bernanke
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to public service in Washington's halls of power....
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Way, way deep into the weeds...
- By farmhouselady on 10-14-15
By: Ben S. Bernanke
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This Changes Everything
- Capitalism vs. the Climate
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
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In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care....
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Didactic and preachy... and I agree with her
- By plau on 09-25-16
By: Naomi Klein
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Fed Up
- An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America
- By: Danielle DiMartino Booth
- Narrated by: Danielle DiMartino Booth
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is Booth's clarion call for a change in the way America's most powerful financial institution is run - before it's too late....
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straight forward brilliant
- By casey on 02-20-17
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The Forgotten Depression
- 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
- By: James Grant
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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In 1920-1921, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it, implementing policies that most 21st-century economists would call backward....
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Scoring Political Points
- By Gregory P. Louviere on 03-02-21
By: James Grant
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Stress Test
- Reflections on Financial Crises
- By: Timothy F. Geithner
- Narrated by: Timothy F. Geithner
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
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From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse....
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Credible analysis of the 2008 crisis
- By Neuron on 09-02-15
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
- By: Kate Raworth
- Narrated by: Kate Raworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality,....
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Healthy doughnut encounter!
- By Liz Lem on 08-20-18
By: Kate Raworth
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American Kleptocracy
- How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
- By: Casey Michel
- Narrated by: Joe Dwyer
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, American Kleptocracy offers the first explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known....
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Brilliant, timely, a cautionary tale
- By Victoria Eriksson on 11-24-21
By: Casey Michel
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The War on Small Business
- How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America
- By: Carol Roth
- Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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For years, government bureaucrats have been looking for ways to destroy small businesses. With coronavirus, they finally had their chance....
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2 books in 1
- By Nicholas Conrad on 07-18-21
By: Carol Roth
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Thinking Like an Economist
- How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
- By: Elizabeth Popp Berman
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change....
New releases
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21st Century Monetary Policy
- The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
- By: Ben S. Bernanke
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A former chair of the Federal Reserve explains the transformation of one our most powerful and consequential institutions. Â
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don't buy, horrible narration
- By Mr. Incognito on 05-18-22
By: Ben S. Bernanke
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Hall of Mirrors
- The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History
- By: Barry Eichengreen
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. Pain and suffering were widespread.
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The Fed Unbound
- Central Banking in a Time of Crisis
- By: Lev Menand
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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 It is a bedrock principle of the US Constitution that Congress, as representatives of the people, sets economic policy and directs government resources. This all changed 13 years ago, and even more dramatically during the pandemic. The Federal Reserve operates independently from the rest of the government, and can create as much money as it sees fit and use it without the prior approval of Congress, the courts, or the President.
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Great clarity on what the Fed is, was, does, did
- By Philo on 05-14-22
By: Lev Menand
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A Brief History of Equality
- By: Thomas Piketty
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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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.Â
By: Thomas Piketty
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The Parent Trap
- How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis
- By: Nate G. Hilger
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support, and its primary workers—parents—labor in isolation. It's almost as if parents are set up to fail—and the result is lost opportunities that limit children's success and make us all worse off. In The Parent Trap, Nate Hilger combines cutting-edge social science research, revealing historical case studies, and on-the-ground investigation to recast parenting as the hidden crucible of inequality.
By: Nate G. Hilger
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The Downfall of the American Order?
- By: Peter J. Katzenstein - editor, Jonathan Kirshner - editor
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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For 75 years, the basic patterns of world politics and the contours of international economic activity took place in the shadow of American leadership and the institutions it designed—an order designed to avoid the horrors of previous eras, including, most poignantly, two world wars and the Great Depression. But all things must pass. The global financial crisis of 2008, the legacy of two long, losing wars, and the polarizing and tumultuous presidency of Donald Trump all suggest that global affairs have reached a turning point. The implications of this are profound.
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Uneven, but a strong basis for big picture thought
- By Philo on 04-27-22
By: Peter J. Katzenstein - editor, and others
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21st Century Monetary Policy
- The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
- By: Ben S. Bernanke
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A former chair of the Federal Reserve explains the transformation of one our most powerful and consequential institutions. Â
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don't buy, horrible narration
- By Mr. Incognito on 05-18-22
By: Ben S. Bernanke
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Hall of Mirrors
- The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History
- By: Barry Eichengreen
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. Pain and suffering were widespread.
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The Fed Unbound
- Central Banking in a Time of Crisis
- By: Lev Menand
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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 It is a bedrock principle of the US Constitution that Congress, as representatives of the people, sets economic policy and directs government resources. This all changed 13 years ago, and even more dramatically during the pandemic. The Federal Reserve operates independently from the rest of the government, and can create as much money as it sees fit and use it without the prior approval of Congress, the courts, or the President.
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Great clarity on what the Fed is, was, does, did
- By Philo on 05-14-22
By: Lev Menand
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A Brief History of Equality
- By: Thomas Piketty
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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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.Â
By: Thomas Piketty
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The Parent Trap
- How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis
- By: Nate G. Hilger
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support, and its primary workers—parents—labor in isolation. It's almost as if parents are set up to fail—and the result is lost opportunities that limit children's success and make us all worse off. In The Parent Trap, Nate Hilger combines cutting-edge social science research, revealing historical case studies, and on-the-ground investigation to recast parenting as the hidden crucible of inequality.
By: Nate G. Hilger
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The Downfall of the American Order?
- By: Peter J. Katzenstein - editor, Jonathan Kirshner - editor
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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For 75 years, the basic patterns of world politics and the contours of international economic activity took place in the shadow of American leadership and the institutions it designed—an order designed to avoid the horrors of previous eras, including, most poignantly, two world wars and the Great Depression. But all things must pass. The global financial crisis of 2008, the legacy of two long, losing wars, and the polarizing and tumultuous presidency of Donald Trump all suggest that global affairs have reached a turning point. The implications of this are profound.
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Uneven, but a strong basis for big picture thought
- By Philo on 04-27-22
By: Peter J. Katzenstein - editor, and others
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Thinking Like an Economist
- How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
- By: Elizabeth Popp Berman
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way of thinking-an "economic style of reasoning" - became dominant in Washington between the 1960s and the 1980s and how it continues to dramatically narrow debates over public policy today.
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The Bond King
- How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
- By: Mary Childs
- Narrated by: Mary Childs
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. Ten thousand dollars and countless casino bans later, he was hooked, so he enrolled in business school. The Bond King is the story of how that whiz kid made American finance his casino.Â
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Professional reader needed
- By Paige Turner on 03-20-22
By: Mary Childs
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The Wall and the Bridge
- Fear and Opportunity in Disruption's Wake
- By: Glenn Hubbard
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Free-market economists often have noted that there are winners and losers in a competitive capitalist world. The question of how to deal with the difficult real-life consequences faced by the losers, however, has largely been ignored. Populist politicians have tried repeatedly to address the issue by creating walls - of both the physical and economic kinds - to insulate communities and keep competition at bay. Economist Glenn Hubbard argues that because they delay needed adaptations to the ever-changing world, walls are essentially backward-looking and ultimately destined to fail.Â
By: Glenn Hubbard
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A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide
- By: Cyd Harrell
- Narrated by: Taylor Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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This friendly guide is for technology people who work, or want to work, in the public sector. Cyd Harrell outlines the types of projects, partnerships, and people that civic technologists encounter, and the methods they can use to make lasting change. She focuses on principles to help technologists find the right way to do the most good, starting with finding the people already doing the work. Based on her years of government tech partnerships, Cyd offers practical advice on how to build alliances with public sector partners, what tech (and non-tech) skills are most useful, and more.
By: Cyd Harrell
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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
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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How is it possible that a once-in-a-century pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and left millions more jobless didn't also destroy the country’s economy? One of the biggest reasons: Jay Powell and the Fed. Trillion Dollar Triage is the inside story of how an unassuming civil servant created trillions of dollars from thin air, fended off a barrage of attacks from Donald Trump, and made sure the worst economic shock since the 1930s didn’t turn into a second depression.Â
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- By Adam on 04-20-22
By: Nick Timiraos
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Left Behind
- The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
- By: Lily Geismer
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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For decades, the Republican Party has been known as the party of the rich: arguing for “business-friendly” policies like deregulation and tax cuts. But this incisive political history shows that the current inequality crisis was also enabled by a Democratic Party that catered to the affluent. The result is one of the great missed opportunities in political history: a moment when we had the chance to change the lives of future generations and were too short-sighted to take it.Â
By: Lily Geismer