Modern Economics

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    • The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers
    • By: Mark Skousen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
    • Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 443 ratings
    • Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer....

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    • The Lives and Ideas of The Great Thinkers
    • By: Mark Skousen
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics—the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today’s rigorous social science....

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    • The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers, Second Edition
    • By: Mark Skousen
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • The dramatic story of the great economic thinkers, their lives, quirks, and ideas as told by a free-market economist, now in its second edition.....

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    • Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
    • By: Stephanie Kelton
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Kelton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,599 ratings
    • Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs....

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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 378 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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    • The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
    • By: Don Thompson
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world....

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    • The Inside Story of Our Turbulent Relationship with Modern Finance
    • By: Christopher Varelas, Dan Stone
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • A provocative and entertaining voyage into the turbulent heart of modern money that sheds new light on the rise of our threatening and complicated financial system, how money became our adversary, and why finding a new course is crucial to a healthy society....

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    • Fountainhead of the Modern Microeconomics Revolution
    • By: Eamonn Butler
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • The Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises is increasingly recognized as one of the most important originators of modern economic thought....

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    • What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It
    • By: Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, Elizabeth Ames
    • Narrated by: Carol Monda
    • Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It explains what’s behind the worst inflationary storm in more than forty years—one that is dominating the headlines and shaking Americans by their pocketbooks....

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    • The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Richard White
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....

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    • David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship of two towering Enlightenment thinkers that had great consequences for modern thought....

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    • The Invisible Fist of the Market
    • By: Michael Taillard
    • Narrated by: Michael Grinter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This book demonstrates how economic tools have been used throughout history to accomplish goals of military conflict, how they can be used more effectively than traditional means of warfare in the modern era, and how we can derive a better understanding of economic strategy applicable....

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    • The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
    • By: Nicholas Mulder
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early 20th century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war....

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    • How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
    • By: William L. Silber
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the 19th century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president FDR during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world during the 1970s altered the course of US and world history....

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    • By: Tim Harford
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 367 ratings
    • This audiobook paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us....

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    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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    • How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
    • By: Barry Estabrook
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright...

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