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Understanding Global Trade
- By: Elhanan Helpman
- Narrated by: Kevin Charles Minatrea
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Global trade is of vital interest to citizens as well as policymakers, yet it is widely misunderstood. This compact exposition of the market forces underlying international commerce addresses both of these concerned groups, as well as the needs of students and scholars. Although it contains no equations, it is almost mathematical in its elegance, precision, and power of expression. Understanding Global Trade provides a thorough explanation of what shapes the international organization of production and distribution and the resulting trade flows.
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Dull
- By Kevin Fenwick on 31-03-14
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Understanding Global Trade
- Narrated by: Kevin Charles Minatrea
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-01-13
- Language: English
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River of Dark Dreams
- Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
- By: Walter Johnson
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an "empire for liberty" populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves.
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River of Dark Dreams
- Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 19-10-21
- Language: English
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Global Inequality
- A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
- By: Branko Milanovic
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice.
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Global Inequality
- A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-07-17
- Language: English
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The Wages of Whiteness
- Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
- By: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.
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Reasonable Historical Tome
- By Snowball on 04-03-22
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The Wages of Whiteness
- Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 31-05-17
- Language: English
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A Call to Arms
- Mobilizing America for World War II
- By: Maury Klein
- Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
- Length: 35 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents - and to do so it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war began. Never in the nation's history did it have to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts.The Axis powers might have fielded better trained soldiers, better weapons, better tanks and aircraft.
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A Call to Arms
- Mobilizing America for World War II
- Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
- Length: 35 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-12-13
- Language: English
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Poverty
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Philip N. Jefferson
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us. He shows how a person's level of vulnerability to adverse changes in their life is very much dependent on the circumstances of their birth, including where their family lived, whether it was peacetime or wartime, whether they had access to clean water, and whether they are male or female.
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Poverty
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 13-11-18
- Language: English
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The Sickness is the System
- When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
- By: Richard D. Wolff
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist system into a tailspin. The consequences of these mounting and intertwined crises will shape our future. In this unique collection of over 50 essays, The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself, Richard D. Wolff argues clearly that "returning to normal" no longer responds adequately to the accumulated problems of US capitalism.
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The Sickness is the System
- When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 29-06-21
- Language: English
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Check Your Financial Privilege
- By: Alex Gladstein
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Alex Gladstein has a lot to say about Bitcoin, human rights, financial privilege, and personal freedom. In Check Your Financial Privilege, he says it, starting with the fact that anyone born into a reserve currency like the euro, yen, or pound has financial privilege over the 89 percent of the world population born into weaker systems. As CSO of the Human Rights Foundation, Gladstein is uniquely positioned to detail the rise of Bitcoin from cypherpunk dream to the real-life Bitcoin stories happening to real people across the globe.
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A real eyeopener
- By Leaby on 29-12-24
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Check Your Financial Privilege
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 16-08-22
- Language: English
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
- By: Benjamin M. Friedman
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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From one of the nation's preeminent experts on economic policy, a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking that explores the profound influence of an until-now unrecognized force—religion. "Friedman has given us an original and brilliant new perspective on the...
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Heavy going
- By Michael Josem on 03-05-21
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 26-01-21
- Language: English
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The Quants
- How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
- By: Scott Patterson
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT. With him was Ken...
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Decent introduction to the subject.
- By Mr on 04-01-19
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The Quants
- How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 02-02-10
- Language: English
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EuroTragedy
- A Drama in Nine Acts
- By: Ashoka Mody
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Blending economic analysis with political drama, EuroTragedy is a groundbreaking account of the euro's history and tragic consequences. In this vivid and compelling chronicle, Ashoka Mody describes how the euro improbably emerged through a narrow historical window as a flawed compromise wrapped in a false pro-European rhetoric of peace and unity.
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Easy to understand how the euro has acted as a catalyst for European decline
- By Simon Brady on 16-04-21
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EuroTragedy
- A Drama in Nine Acts
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 20-08-19
- Language: English
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The Great Crashes
- Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them
- By: Linda Yueh
- Narrated by: Linda Yueh
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in modern financial history. Since America's Wall Street Crash of 1929, the global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in financial history. From the currency crises of the 1980s, to Japan's...
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Good introduction and explanation of crashes for lay person.
- By Mark Lancaster on 07-04-24
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The Great Crashes
- Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them
- Narrated by: Linda Yueh
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-05-23
- Language: English
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Crash Bang Wallop
- The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World
- By: Iain Martin
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world. Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were...
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Crash Bang Wallop
- The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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First Responders
- Inside the U.S. Strategy for Fighting the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis
- By: Ben S. Bernanke - editor, Timothy F. Geithner - editor, Henry M. Paulson Jr. - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
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Edited by three of the policymakers who led the government's response to the crisis, with chapters written by the teams tasked with finding policy solutions, this book provides a comprehensive accounting of the internal debates and controversies surrounding the measures that were taken to stabilize the financial system and the economy. Offering previously untold insight into the key choices (including rejected options) and a frank evaluation of successes and failures, this volume is both an important historical document and an indispensable guide for confronting future financial calamities.
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First Responders
- Inside the U.S. Strategy for Fighting the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 04-02-20
- Language: English
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The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
- The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
- By: George Soros
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros, the legendary financier and philanthropist, writes about the origins of the crisis and proposes a set of policies that should be adopted to confront it.
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WARNING: Contains no answers
- By Adam on 17-06-08
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The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
- The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 16-05-08
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Doom
- Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises (Haney Foundation Series)
- By: Richard Vague
- Narrated by: Kevin Meyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Financial crises happen time and again in post-industrial economies - and they are extraordinarily damaging. Building on insights gleaned from many years of work in the banking industry and drawing on a vast trove of data, Richard Vague argues that such crises follow a pattern that makes them both predictable and avoidable. A Brief History of Doom examines a series of major crises over the past 200 years in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, and China - including the Great Depression and the economic meltdown of 2008.
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A Brief History of Doom
- Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises (Haney Foundation Series)
- Narrated by: Kevin Meyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 23-08-19
- Language: English
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Crisis Economics
- A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
- By: Nouriel Roubini, Stephen Mihm
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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This myth shattering book reveals the methods Nouriel Roubini used to foretell the current crisis before other economists saw it coming and shows how those methods can help us make sense of the present and prepare for the future. Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini electrified his profession and...
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Crisis Economics
- A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 11-05-10
- Language: English
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Popular Economics
- What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You About Economics
- By: John Tamny
- Narrated by: Daniel Penz
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Forbes editor John Tamny uses entertaining stories from sports, movies, popular culture, and famous businesses to demonstrate the basic principles of economics. The Rolling Stones, the Dallas Cowboys, and Paris Hilton become examples of good and bad tax policy. The Godfather, Gone With the Wind, and The Sopranos reveal the downside of antitrust regulation while the Michigan Wolverines' 2007 loss to Appalachian State explains why regulations often fail to achieve their intended purposes.
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Popular Economics
- What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You About Economics
- Narrated by: Daniel Penz
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 13-04-15
- Language: English
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Adventurers
- The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
- By: David Howarth
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
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The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious merchants to search for new forms of investment, not least in risky overseas enterprises-and for these "adventurers" the most profitable bet of all would be on the Company. Through a host of stories and fascinating details, David Howarth brings to life the Company's way of doing business—from the leaky ships and petty seafarers of its embattled early days to later sweeping commercial success.
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An excellent detail-packed and jaunty history
- By Rachel Redford on 13-06-23
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Adventurers
- The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 28-03-23
- Language: English
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The Origins of Value
- The Financial Innovations That Created Modern Capital Markets
- By: William N. Goetzmann - editor, K. Geert Rouwenhorst - editor
- Narrated by: Christine Marshall
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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From the invention of interest in Mesopotamia and the origin of paper money in China, to the creation of mutual funds, inflation-indexed bonds, and global financial securities, here is a sweeping survey of financial innovations that have changed the world. Written by a distinguished group of experts - including Robert Shiller, Niall Ferguson, Valerie Hansen, and many others - The Origins of Value traces the evolution of finance through 4,000 years of history.
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The Origins of Value
- The Financial Innovations That Created Modern Capital Markets
- Narrated by: Christine Marshall
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-02-14
- Language: English
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