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  • Capital and Ideology cover art

    • Capital and Ideology

    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings

    • 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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    • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings

    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • The Great Leveler

    • Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Walter Scheidel
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....

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    • Discrimination and Disparities

    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings

    • Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....

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  • Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism cover art

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    • Unbound

    • How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It
    • By: Heather Boushey
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • From one of Washington’s most influential voices on economic policy, a lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not just fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and stability....

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    • The Price of Inequality

    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable....

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    • The Economics Book

    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential audio reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work....

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    • Globalists

    • The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
    • By: Quinn Slobodian
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings

    • In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization....

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    • Trade Wars Are Class Wars

    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings

    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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    • Stolen

    • How to Save the World from Financialisation
    • By: Grace Blakeley
    • Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 13-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings

    • For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....

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    • Austerity

    • The History of a Dangerous Idea
    • By: Mark Blyth
    • Narrated by: Fred Stella
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse....

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    • Chavs

    • The Demonization of the Working Class
    • By: Owen Jones
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 902 ratings
    • In this investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the caricature....

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    • As Gods Among Men

    • A History of the Rich in the West
    • By: Guido Alfani
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Alfani argues that the position of the rich and super-rich in Western society has always been intrinsically fragile; their very presence has inspired social unease. In the Middle Ages, an excessive accumulation of wealth was considered sinful; the rich were expected not to appear to be wealthy....

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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
    • Release date: 20-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 923 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • Democracy at Work

    • A Cure for Capitalism
    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings

    • Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society....

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    • The People's Republic of Walmart

    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings

    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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    • Split: Class Divides Uncovered

    • Outspoken by Pluto
    • By: Ben Tippet
    • Narrated by: Saul Jones
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve....

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