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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Overall24,755
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Performance20,611
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Story20,516
#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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How Countries Go Broke
- The Big Cycle
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall166
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Performance150
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Story150
#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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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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Overall4,738
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Performance3,945
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Story3,934
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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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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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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Overall107
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Performance97
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Story97
*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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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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Overall297
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Performance279
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Story279
#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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Highly recommend!
- By Mia Su Cary on 08-27-25
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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Overall24,755
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Performance20,611
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Story20,516
#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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How Countries Go Broke
- The Big Cycle
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall166
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Performance150
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Story150
#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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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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Overall4,738
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Performance3,945
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Story3,934
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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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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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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Overall107
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Performance97
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Story97
*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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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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Overall297
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Performance279
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Story279
#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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Highly recommend!
- By Mia Su Cary on 08-27-25
By: Robert B. Reich
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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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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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Overall74
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Performance70
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Story70
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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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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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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Overall3,588
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Performance3,008
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Story2,986
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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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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End The Fed
- By: Ron Paul
- Narrated by: Bob Craig
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall951
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Performance687
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Story689
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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Good Economics for Hard Times
- By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,341
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Performance1,100
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Story1,088
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. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps...
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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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Discrimination and Disparities
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Hassiem Muhammad
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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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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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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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 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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Overall1,660
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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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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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The Chile Project
- The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
- By: Sebastian Edwards
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance33
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Story33
In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the story of how the neoliberal economic model came to an end in 2021, when Gabriel Boric was elected president, vowing that "If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave"....
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Combining history, ethnography, politic
- By John Murphy on 06-05-23
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No es normal [It Is Not Normal]
- By: Viri Ríos
- Narrated by: Maya Zapata
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance65
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Story65
En una seductora mezcla de rigor académico con historias insólitas, Viri Ríos - instructora de política pública, académica y periodista - devela el juego de intrincadas reglas....
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Temas de izquierda
- By Mario R. Aguilera on 02-20-24
By: Viri Ríos
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Why The New Deal Matters
- By: Eric Rauchway
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance26
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Story26
The New Deal was instated at a time of mass unemployment and the rise of fascistic government models and functioned as a bulwark of American democracy. This book looks at how this legacy, both for good and ill, informs the current debates around governmental responses to crises....
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Great book, horrible narration
- By Lucas Dolan on 05-06-22
By: Eric Rauchway
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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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Overall192
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Performance165
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Story165
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 on 02-24-21
By: Vandana Shiva, and others
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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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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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Overall756
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Performance665
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Story662
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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The Great Reversal
- How America Gave Up on Free Markets
- By: Thomas Philippon
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance110
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Story110
Why are cellphone plans so much more expensive in the United States than in Europe? It seems a simple question. But the search for an answer took Thomas Philippon on an unexpected journey through some of the most complex and hotly debated issues in modern economics....
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Eye-opening, but better as a book - a must-READ
- By Ash on 11-29-19
By: Thomas Philippon
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Así no es [It's Not Like That]
- No creas todo lo que te dicen sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e ingresos [Don't Believe Everything They Tell You About Meritocracy, Middle Class, Classism, Salaries and Income]
- By: Viri Ríos, Ray Campos
- Narrated by: Kerygma Flores
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance32
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Story32
¿El pobre es pobre porque quiere? ¿Los jóvenes son más flojos que antes y por eso ganan menos? ¿Quienes reciben programas sociales los gastan en tonterías? ¿Los estados del norte trabajan más que los del sur? ¿Tu jefe ya no te puede subir el sueldo?
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Libro que todos debemos conocer
- By Aldair Mendoza on 01-05-26
By: Viri Ríos, and others
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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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Overall127
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Performance114
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Story113
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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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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Un pequeño empujón [Nudge]
- El impulso que necesitas para tomar mejores decisiones sobre salud, dinero y felicidad [Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness]
- By: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein, Belén Urrutia Domínguez - traductor
- Narrated by: Leto Dugatkin
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance18
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Story18
El libro que inspiró a Barack Obama los fundamentos de la política al demostrar el poder de un pequeño empujón....
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El contenido es superior extraordinario
- By Hugo Samuel Balderas on 06-26-25
By: Richard H. Thaler, and others
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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