Bestsellers
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....
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Ray Dalio, Chinas New Minister of Propoganda
- By Dudley on 01-04-22
By: Ray Dalio
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The Theory of Money and Credit
- By: Ludwig von Mises
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money ever to appear....
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Interesting read
- By Todd Woollen on 07-20-19
By: Ludwig von Mises
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The Sovereign Individual
- Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
- By: James Dale Davidson, Peter Thiel - preface, William Rees-Mogg
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the best seller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century....
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Unfortunately distopian for mosty of humanity
- By Phil on 09-29-20
By: James Dale Davidson, and others
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Bitcoin: Hard Money You Can't F*ck With
- Why Bitcoin Will Be the Next Global Reserve Currency
- By: Jason A. Williams
- Narrated by: Jessica Walker
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Hard Money You Can’t F*ck With explains bitcoin in simple, understandable terms and maps out how this "magic internet money" will grow into the best form of money we’ve ever had....
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HFSP if you do not read/listen
- By brandon on 02-12-21
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The Fiat Standard
- The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
- By: Saifedean Ammous
- Narrated by: Saifedean Ammous, Guy Swann
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global best seller The Bitcoin Standard....
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keep narrative to economics related topics
- By HM on 06-14-22
By: Saifedean Ammous
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Central Banking 101
- By: Joseph J Wang
- Narrated by: Bill Anciaux
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation and catapult it towards euphoric highs. With a few keystrokes, the Fed can conjure up trillions of dollars and fund virtually unlimited Federal spending....
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Great Knowledge & Information
- By Lloyd K. on 09-09-24
By: Joseph J Wang
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....
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Ray Dalio, Chinas New Minister of Propoganda
- By Dudley on 01-04-22
By: Ray Dalio
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The Theory of Money and Credit
- By: Ludwig von Mises
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money ever to appear....
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Interesting read
- By Todd Woollen on 07-20-19
By: Ludwig von Mises
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The Sovereign Individual
- Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
- By: James Dale Davidson, Peter Thiel - preface, William Rees-Mogg
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the best seller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century....
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Unfortunately distopian for mosty of humanity
- By Phil on 09-29-20
By: James Dale Davidson, and others
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Bitcoin: Hard Money You Can't F*ck With
- Why Bitcoin Will Be the Next Global Reserve Currency
- By: Jason A. Williams
- Narrated by: Jessica Walker
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Hard Money You Can’t F*ck With explains bitcoin in simple, understandable terms and maps out how this "magic internet money" will grow into the best form of money we’ve ever had....
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HFSP if you do not read/listen
- By brandon on 02-12-21
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The Fiat Standard
- The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
- By: Saifedean Ammous
- Narrated by: Saifedean Ammous, Guy Swann
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global best seller The Bitcoin Standard....
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keep narrative to economics related topics
- By HM on 06-14-22
By: Saifedean Ammous
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Central Banking 101
- By: Joseph J Wang
- Narrated by: Bill Anciaux
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation and catapult it towards euphoric highs. With a few keystrokes, the Fed can conjure up trillions of dollars and fund virtually unlimited Federal spending....
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Great Knowledge & Information
- By Lloyd K. on 09-09-24
By: Joseph J Wang
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Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms
- How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
- By: Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Paul Swartz
- Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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When turmoil hits, executives and investors face notoriously unreliable macroeconomic forecasts, whipsawing data, and contradictory opinions. Are disruptions transient and ephemeral-or permanent and structural?
By: Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, and others
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Good Economics for Hard Times
- Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
- By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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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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Crash of the Titans
- Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America
- By: Greg Farrell
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the intimate, fly-on-the wall tale of the decline and fall of an America icon....
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The author needs an outline or timeline
- By Stephanie on 12-19-10
By: Greg Farrell
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State and Revolution
- By: Vladimir Ilich Lenin
- Narrated by: Chris Matthews
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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State and Revolution (1917) describes the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution....
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Revolution, Not Reform
- By Earth Lover on 07-24-19
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Car Guys vs. Bean Counters
- The Battle for the Soul of American Business
- By: Bob Lutz
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2001, General Motors hired Bob Lutz out of retirement with a mandate to save the company by making great cars again....
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Opinionated and one-sided
- By Michael Parks on 06-23-11
By: Bob Lutz
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What Is to Be Done?
- By: Vladimir Lenin
- Narrated by: Adam Douglas
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement is a political pamphlet written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. Lenin contends that the working class will not become politically aware simply by struggling with employers over wages, hours and working conditions....
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Great To Read the Unfiltered Works of the World’s Monsters
- By Bob Savage on 10-30-24
By: Vladimir Lenin
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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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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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Slouching Towards Utopia
- An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
- By: J. Bradford DeLong
- Narrated by: Allan Aquino
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the world’s leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied....
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A clear but sometimes one-sided economic history
- By Anon on 11-22-22
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Narrative Economics
- How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
- By: Robert J. Shiller
- Narrated by: Susan Osman, Robert J. Shiller - introduction
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The stories people tell - about economic confidence or panic, housing booms, the American dream, or Bitcoin - affect economic outcomes. Narrative Economics explains how we can begin to take these stories seriously. It may be Robert Shiller's most important book to date....
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Such boring narration (returned)
- By William J Brown on 10-08-19
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Arguing with Zombies
- Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
- By: Paul Krugman
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Paul Krugman
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no stronger foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won’t die....
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One of the most decisive and partisan books I’ve read
- By Bob on 03-11-20
By: Paul Krugman
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The Prosperity Paradox
- How Innovation Can Lift Nations out of Poverty
- By: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, Karen Dillon
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Clayton M. Christensen and coauthors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity and offers a groundbreaking solution for true and lasting change....
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Simplistic, lack of insights
- By D. Cameron on 05-24-21
By: Clayton M. Christensen, and others
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The Mystery of Banking
- By: Murray N. Rothbard
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Talk about great timing. Rothbard's extraordinary book unravels the mystery of banking: What is legitimate enterprise and what is a government-backed shell game that can't last? Find out....
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Completely incompetent narrator
- By Lisa on 01-24-19
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The Blue Sweater
- Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
- By: Jacqueline Novogratz
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Novogratz
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty....
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A Heartfelt Testament
- By Gallantly Rabbit! on 01-23-11
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Economics 101
- From Consumer Behavior to Competitive Markets—Everything You Need to Know About Economics
- By: Alfred Mill
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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So much of the world revolves around economics, so why do most texts make it so dull and difficult to learn? But learning economics doesn’t have to be boring. In Economics 101, you’ll see how learning economics can be engaging....
By: Alfred Mill
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Prosperity Without Growth
- Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
- By: Tim Jackson
- Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In this new edition, Tim Jackson brings his explosive book up to date exploring both the philosophical basis for a lasting prosperity and the conceptual foundations for the economy of tomorrow....
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essential reading
- By Anonymous User on 10-10-24
By: Tim Jackson
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality....
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Documents how US plutocracy oppresses citizens
- By BruceK on 04-14-17
By: Noam Chomsky
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Trillion Dollar Triage
- How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
- By: Nick Timiraos
- Narrated by: Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs....
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Hard to listen. Mostly an anti Trump book.
- By NL on 04-17-22
By: Nick Timiraos
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China, US & the Future of Global Economy
- By: Meg Rithmire
- Narrated by: Meg Rithmire
- Length: 57 mins
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Professor Rithmire's lecture explains the past, present, and future of economic interdependence of China and the US, making sense of its role in the global financial crisis of 2008 and the adjustments taking place in its wake....
By: Meg Rithmire
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A Letter Concerning Toleration
- By: John Locke
- Narrated by: Philip Ray
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in Latin in 1689. It was Locke's response to the problem of religion and government; he proposed religious toleration as the answer....
By: John Locke
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Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
- By: Vladimir Ilyich
- Narrated by: Yosef Kent
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperialist colonialism as the final stage of capitalist development to ensure greater profits....
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This narrator may literally be a bot.
- By scarecrow on 08-28-21
By: Vladimir Ilyich
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How Nations Escape Poverty
- Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity
- By: Rainer Zitelmann
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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During the twentieth century, Vietnam and Poland were both victims not only of devastating wars, but also of socialist planned economies that destroyed whatever war hadn’t already.
By: Rainer Zitelmann
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Other People's Money
- The Real Business of Finance
- By: John Kay
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates....
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Listened twice. Everyone must read this.
- By Tristan on 01-18-16
By: John Kay
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The Money Mafia
- A World in Crisis
- By: Paul T. Hellyer
- Narrated by: Leslie James
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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With more than 65 years of participation in and observation of political and economic systems, Paul T. Hellyer analyzes what he believes has gone wrong with the world and its economy....
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A plan for the "New" New world order!
- By frank on 01-15-18
By: Paul T. Hellyer
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Understandable Economics
- Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know
- By: Howard Yaruss
- Narrated by: Howard Yaruss
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Understandable Economics provides the context, tools, and foundational knowledge listeners need to thoroughly understand our economy, determine which policies would work best, and champion those policies effectively....
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Sophomoric and stilted
- By : on 02-06-23
By: Howard Yaruss