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The Velvet Rope Economy
- How Inequality Became Big Business
- By: Nelson D. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a gripping investigation of how a virtual velvet rope divides Americans in every arena of life, creating a friction-free existence for those with money on one side and a Darwinian struggle for the middle class on the other side. In...
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The Velvet Rope Economy
- How Inequality Became Big Business
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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Money for Nothing
- The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich
- By: Thomas Levenson
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The sweeping story of the world’s first financial crisis: “an astounding episode from the early days of financial markets that to this day continues to intrigue and perplex historians . . . narrative history at its best, lively and fresh with new insights” (Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer...
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Money for Nothing
- The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 18-08-20
- Language: English
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1929
- The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
- By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Narrated by: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, “the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,” comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history. With the depth of a classic history and the drama of a thriller, 1929 unravels...
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Politics and Money
- By Sean on 05-12-25
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1929
- The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
- Narrated by: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 14-10-25
- Language: English
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Material World
- A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
- By: Ed Conway
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium. The struggle for these tiny, magical materials has razed empires, demolished civilizations, fed our greed and our ingenuity for thousands of years. But the story is not over. We are often told we now live in a weightless world of information but in fact we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. And it's getting worse. To make one bar of gold, we now have to dig 5,000 tons of earth. For every tonne of fossil fuels, we extract six tonnes of other materials - from sand to stone to wood to metal.
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Well worth more than one listen
- By JCM on 25-08-23
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Material World
- A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 15-06-23
- Language: English
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Breakneck
- China's Quest to Engineer the Future
- By: Dan Wang
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. From an indispensable voice on China, comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress For close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and astounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming railways and...
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Interesting but a little simplistic
- By Derrick on 02-03-26
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Breakneck
- China's Quest to Engineer the Future
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 26-08-25
- Language: English
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The Insatiable Machine
- How Capitalism Conquered the World
- By: Trevor Jackson
- Narrated by: Eddie Lopez
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Today, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalism―it touches almost every aspect of our lives, and most people alive have never known another. Yet, a cursory look at the world around us reveals that things can't stay this way forever: an economy built on infinite...
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The Insatiable Machine
- How Capitalism Conquered the World
- Narrated by: Eddie Lopez
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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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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Overall1,026
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Performance827
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NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world...
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History made science
- By Judy Corstjens on 29-04-13
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 20-03-12
- Language: English
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Capitalism
- A Global History
- By: Sven Beckert
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani, Courtney Patterson, Robert Petkoff, and others
- Length: 42 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times Notable Book A Financial Times Best Book of the Year "A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history, agreeing and arguing with it, all the while affirming its generational importance, for decades to...
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Capitalism
- A Global History
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani, Courtney Patterson, Robert Petkoff, Mack Sanderson
- Length: 42 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 25-11-25
- Language: English
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Abundance
- How We Build a Better Future
- By: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
- Narrated by: Derek Thompson, Ezra Klein
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Decades of slashing immigration, off-shoring manufacture, preventing house-building and stalling ambitious infrastructure projects like high-speed rail means America has a shortage of workers, houses, innovative products and climate-change solutions. It's a story repeated across the Western World. To progress on the greatest challenges of our time, from housing to climate change, healthcare to infrastructure, progressives need a vision of abundance, and the ability and willingness to enact transformative strategies.
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Disappointingly thin on details
- By Louis on 26-05-25
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Abundance
- How We Build a Better Future
- Narrated by: Derek Thompson, Ezra Klein
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 18-03-25
- Language: English
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Money Mischief
- Episodes in Monetary History
- By: Milton Friedman
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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This classic work by Fortune Magazine's Economist of the Century outlines some of Friedman's most famous economic theories about our monetary system. You can hear the Nobel Prize winner and his wife, also an accomplished economist, speak at The Commonwealth Club, about their achievements in the areas of economics and public policy.
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Fascinating
- By Dawn from Kent on 04-08-18
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Money Mischief
- Episodes in Monetary History
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 16-08-12
- Language: English
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The Club
- How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport
- By: Jonathan Clegg, Joshua Robinson
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall188
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Performance161
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The never-before-told inside story of how the Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular entertainment business on the planet. How did English football - once known for its stale pies, bad book-keeping and hooligans - become a commercial powerhouse and the world's premium popular...
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Very Insightful
- By mjp1970 on 15-08-19
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The Club
- How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-12-18
- Language: English
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War and Gold
- A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
- By: Kwasi Kwarteng
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The world was wild for gold. After discovering the Americas, and under pressure to defend their vast dominion, the Habsburgs of Spain promoted gold and silver exploration in the New World with ruthless urgency. But, the great influx of wealth brought home by plundering conquistadors couldn’t compensate for the Spanish government’s extraordinary military spending, which would eventually bankrupt the country multiple times over and lead to the demise of the great empire.
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Missed opportunity
- By Mister Peridot on 29-09-14
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War and Gold
- A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-05-14
- Language: English
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1929
- Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
- By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Narrated by: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It is one of the best narrative histories I’ve read.” —The Wall Street Journal A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 Named a BEST BOOK OF 2025 by The Washington Post, TIME, The Economist, Air Mail...
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1929
- Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
- Narrated by: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 14-10-25
- Language: English
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My Life, Our Times
- By: Gordon Brown
- Narrated by: Gordon Kennedy
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
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As former Prime Minister and our longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story. In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss of his eyesight as a student and the death of his daughter within days of her birth, he shares the passionately held principles that have shaped and driven him, reminding us that politics can and should be a calling to serve.
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History Will Right The Wrongs
- By John McCluskey on 16-02-18
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My Life, Our Times
- Narrated by: Gordon Kennedy
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 07-11-17
- Language: English
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Vulture Capitalism
- How to Survive in an Age of Corporate Greed
- By: Grace Blakeley
- Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall195
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Performance179
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In Vulture Capitalism, acclaimed journalist Grace Blakeley takes on the world’s most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crisis are the intended result of our capitalist system. It’s not broken, it’s working exactly as planned. From JPMorgan to Boeing, Henry Ford to Richard Nixon, Blakeley shows us exactly where late-stage capitalism has gone wrong. Searing, explosive and timely, Vulture Capitalism is the book you need to understand what is happening in the world around you – and what you can do to change it.
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Bit boring
- By newsoundboy on 29-06-24
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Vulture Capitalism
- How to Survive in an Age of Corporate Greed
- Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 14-03-24
- Language: English
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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
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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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 the edge of Roman Syria and consider trade ventures through the Tarim territories that led Roman merchants to Han China.
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Fascinating details about all of the Roman contacts along the silk routes
- By J. Wexler on 28-09-25
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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
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 18-09-19
- Language: English
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Money
- A Story of Humanity
- By: David McWilliams
- Narrated by: David McWilliams
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance271
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*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE OBSERVER, ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES AND PROSPECT ‘A...
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Audio quality is poor
- By john phelan on 08-10-24
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Money
- A Story of Humanity
- Narrated by: David McWilliams
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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The Genesis Book
- The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin
- By: Aaron van Wirdum
- Narrated by: Christian Neale
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Bitcoin did not appear out of nowhere. For decades prior to Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention, a diverse group of computer scientists, privacy activists, and heterodox economists tried to create a digital form of money that could operate independently of government control. The Genesis Book tells the story of the people and projects that inspired the invention of the world’s first successful peer-to-peer electronic cash system.
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Good for btc history and entertaining
- By King Monkey on 13-08-25
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The Genesis Book
- The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin
- Narrated by: Christian Neale
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-06-24
- Language: English
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The Bank That Lived a Little
- Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market
- By: Philip Augar
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance60
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Bank that Lived a Little by Phillip Augar, read by Jonathan Keeble. Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little is the story of one of the most familiar names on the British...
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Mmmm. Needed more explanations for the lay reader
- By Catharine F. on 18-02-24
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The Bank That Lived a Little
- Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 13-12-18
- Language: English
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Capitalism and Slavery
- By: Eric Williams
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams' landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism and has influenced generations of historians ever since. Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the 18th and 19th centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an economic decision.
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Classic
- By T S on 21-01-23
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Capitalism and Slavery
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-04-22
- Language: English
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