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    • Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,081 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....

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    • What's Become of the Common Good?
    • By: Michael J. Sandel
    • Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 927 ratings
    • The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? Find out....

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    • How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
    • By: Keith Payne
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 678 ratings
    • Today's inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means....

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    • Or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails
    • By: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 358 ratings
    • Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important - and difficult - audience yet....

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    • Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,325 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 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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    • By: Thomas Piketty
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books....

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    • The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 766 ratings
    • 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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    • Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,073 ratings
    • Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....

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    • How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
    • By: Adam Tooze
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
    • Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 566 ratings
    • From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shock waves being felt around the world today....

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    • 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: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 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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    • Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich, and Sacrificing the Future of America
    • By: Tim Wise
    • Narrated by: Tim Wise
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In Under the Affluence, Tim Wise discusses a related issue: economic inequality and the demonization of those in need....

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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 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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    • The State of White America, 1960–2010
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 775 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that have historically joined our classes....

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    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 968 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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    • America after Meritocracy
    • By: Chris Hayes
    • Narrated by: Chris Hayes
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,036 ratings
    • A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy....

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    • The Elite Charade of Changing the World
    • By: Anand Giridharadas
    • Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,145 ratings
    • Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it....

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    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 564 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 Clash That Defined Modern Economics
    • By: Nicholas Wapshott
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 380 ratings
    • As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore the balance to economies gone awry....

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