Bestsellers
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Zero to One
- Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- By: Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
- Narrated by: Blake Masters
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24,765
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Performance20,620
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Story20,525
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla The...
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Seems Insightful Until You Think A Little Deeper
- By Mark Brandon on 10-31-14
By: Peter Thiel, and others
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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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Overall4,743
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Performance3,950
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Story3,939
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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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- By Joshua Kim on 05-01-12
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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How Countries Go Broke
- The Big Cycle
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall167
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Performance151
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Story151
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Advance copies of Ray Dalio’s new book about how countries go broke have become a hot read in Washington.” —The New York Times “This book is a gift to humanity….Ray provides a solution to what is the biggest and most certain threat to our prosperity.”...
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Trumps Playbook?
- By MT on 11-14-25
By: Ray Dalio
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4,978
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Performance4,306
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Story4,312
The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men"....
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Don't buy the first "confessions. .." buy this one
- By Bill Redfield on 02-24-16
By: John Perkins
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The Road to Serfdom, the Definitive Edition
- Text and Documents
- By: F. A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell - editor
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,706
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Performance1,469
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Story1,452
Originally publishing in 1944, The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production....
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Hayek's case for individualism over collectivism
- By Wayne on 10-27-18
By: F. A. Hayek, and others
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Coming Up Short
- A Memoir of My America
- By: Robert B. Reich
- Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall299
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Performance281
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Story281
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From political economist, cabinet member, beloved professor, media presence, and bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, fell short in...
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Interesting points of government/ labor history
- By Patrice on 09-24-25
By: Robert B. Reich
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Zero to One
- Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- By: Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
- Narrated by: Blake Masters
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24,765
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Performance20,620
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Story20,525
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla The...
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Seems Insightful Until You Think A Little Deeper
- By Mark Brandon on 10-31-14
By: Peter Thiel, and others
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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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Overall4,743
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Performance3,950
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Story3,939
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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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- By Joshua Kim on 05-01-12
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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How Countries Go Broke
- The Big Cycle
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall167
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Performance151
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Story151
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Advance copies of Ray Dalio’s new book about how countries go broke have become a hot read in Washington.” —The New York Times “This book is a gift to humanity….Ray provides a solution to what is the biggest and most certain threat to our prosperity.”...
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Trumps Playbook?
- By MT on 11-14-25
By: Ray Dalio
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4,978
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Performance4,306
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Story4,312
The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men"....
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Don't buy the first "confessions. .." buy this one
- By Bill Redfield on 02-24-16
By: John Perkins
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The Road to Serfdom, the Definitive Edition
- Text and Documents
- By: F. A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell - editor
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,706
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Performance1,469
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Story1,452
Originally publishing in 1944, The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production....
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Hayek's case for individualism over collectivism
- By Wayne on 10-27-18
By: F. A. Hayek, and others
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Coming Up Short
- A Memoir of My America
- By: Robert B. Reich
- Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall299
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Performance281
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Story281
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From political economist, cabinet member, beloved professor, media presence, and bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, fell short in...
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Interesting points of government/ labor history
- By Patrice on 09-24-25
By: Robert B. Reich
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Bad Company
- Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
- By: Megan Greenwell
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall109
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Performance99
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Story99
*VANITY FAIR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025*ONE OF NEW REPUBLIC'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR*KIRKUS' BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025*ONE OF AV CLUB'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025* "[An] indictment of an industry that has cannily tilted the playing field in its favor. Bad Company details how clichéd abstractions like...
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Healthcare shouldn’t be for profit. Ever
- By Desiree Gosson on 09-17-25
By: Megan Greenwell
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Our Dollar, Your Problem
- An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
- By: Kenneth Rogoff
- Narrated by: Evan Sibley
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance73
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Story73
Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached today’s lofty pinnacle without a certain amount of good luck.
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Interesting, Well Written
- By Nancy on 06-27-25
By: Kenneth Rogoff
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall3,587
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Performance3,007
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Story2,985
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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The Financial Times' Critique Doesn't Detract
- By Madeleine on 05-22-14
By: Thomas Piketty, and others
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Discrimination and Disparities
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Hassiem Muhammad
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance16
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Story16
An enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparities Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are...
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Sowell is humanity’s treasure
- By V on 01-21-26
By: Thomas Sowell
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Why Nothing Works
- Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back
- By: Marc J. Dunkelman
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74
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Performance71
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Story71
A provocative exploration of the forces that keep us from getting things done, and how we can restore confidence in government. “Dunkelman summarizes the history perfectly.” —David Brooks, The New York Times Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times The Economist America was...
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Contents don't match the label
- By Conor on 06-03-25
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Super Imperialism (Third Edition)
- The Economic Strategy of American Empire
- By: Michael Hudson
- Narrated by: Evan Sibley
- Length: 21 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
This edition of Super Imperialism is the finalized version of the analysis that Michael Hudson first published in the wake of President Nixon severing the dollar's link to gold in August 1971.
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Fantastic
- By daniel on 02-13-26
By: Michael Hudson
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall782
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Performance674
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Story673
In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book -- written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) -- Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. In A...
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Honest introspection required
- By Niki on 03-31-17
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The Unaccountability Machine
- Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind
- By: Dan Davies
- Narrated by: Peter Dickson
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
How life and the economy became a black box—a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.
By: Dan Davies
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End The Fed
- By: Ron Paul
- Narrated by: Bob Craig
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall952
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Performance688
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Story690
In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve. Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country's economy could not...
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Very clear and understandable
- By Jonnie on 09-19-09
By: Ron Paul
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The Great Transformation
- The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
- By: Karl Polanyi, Joseph E. Stiglitz - foreword
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance13
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Story13
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the great transformation of the Industrial Revolution.
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Self regulating markets eventually fail
- By Robert Ziegler on 02-15-25
By: Karl Polanyi, and others
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
- Or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails
- By: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall387
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Performance328
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Story322
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international best seller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world...
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Super Digestible
- By Sean on 06-30-22
By: Yanis Varoufakis
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The Privatization of Everything
- How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
- By: Donald Cohen, Allen Mikaelian
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance25
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Story25
The Privatization of Everything, by the founder of In the Public Interest, chronicles the efforts to turn our public goods into private profit centers. Ever since Ronald Reagan labeled government a dangerous threat, privatization has touched every aspect of our lives....
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Consider me recruited!
- By Anonymous on 07-27-25
By: Donald Cohen, and others
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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World
- A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate
- By: Dani Rodrik
- Narrated by: Jim Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
This audiobook narrated by Jim Lee shares practical approaches to confronting today's most daunting global issues.
By: Dani Rodrik
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The War on Normal People
- The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
- By: Andrew Yang
- Narrated by: Andrew Yang
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,186
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Performance3,617
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Story3,599
***New York Times Bestseller*** From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic...
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I Would Vote For Him
- By Tommie Sexton on 07-09-18
By: Andrew Yang
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Decades of Decadence
- How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America's Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity
- By: Marco Rubio
- Narrated by: Marco Rubio
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance47
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Story47
Thirty years of telling Americans they don’t need families, communities, or a shared history is destroying what made our country the envy of the world. While many Americans have worried about China, open borders, opioids, failing communities, and families in crisis, our elites have told us...
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A wake-up call
- By Dave Mahanes on 06-15-23
By: Marco Rubio
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall1,662
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Performance1,379
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Story1,371
A New York Times Bestseller A “clear and vigorously written book” (Foreign Affairs), from the leading thinker of modern monetary theory, that delivers a bold new understanding for how to build a prosperous society Myths about deficits have long hobbled us as a country. Supporting the economy...
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Good core idea, ruined by polemics
- By Amaze on 06-25-20
By: Stephanie Kelton
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Dead Aid
- Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
- By: Dambisa Moyo, Niall Ferguson - foreword
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall141
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Performance120
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Story119
A national best-seller, Dead Aid unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth...
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Dangerous / Right Wing US view
- By David O'Donovan on 03-05-19
By: Dambisa Moyo, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall466
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Performance398
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Story389
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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Economic romanticizing, not economic thinking
- By LAM X LUU on 04-05-18
By: Kate Raworth
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The Constitution of Liberty
- The Definitive Edition
- By: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall126
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Performance113
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Story112
From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government....
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very detailed and important
- By Big Kyle 570 on 06-17-20
By: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, and others
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Governing the Commons
- The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Canto Classics)
- By: Elinor Ostrom
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Story2
The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common resource problems.
By: Elinor Ostrom
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The Injustice of Place
- Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
- By: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance4
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Story4
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. “This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted)...
By: Kathryn J. Edin, and others
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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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Overall378
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Performance311
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Story307
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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This Changes Everything
- Capitalism vs. The Climate
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,594
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Performance1,381
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Story1,371
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...
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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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A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021
- By: Alan S. Blinder
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall96
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Performance80
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Story80
Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States....
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Listen for Nixon's Sake
- By Tricia on 10-26-22
By: Alan S. Blinder