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, 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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    • 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 379 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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    • 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 148 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 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 1,592 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 46 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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    • 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 106 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 141 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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    • Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
    • By: Deirdre N. McCloskey
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 20 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Bourgeois Dignity is a feast of intellectual riches from one of our most spirited and ambitious historians....

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    • How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created
    • By: William Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Based upon the premise that mankind experienced virtually zero economic growth from the dawn of time until 1820, this provocative, big-picture book identifies the four conditions necessary for sustained economic progress....

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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 188 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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    • A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • By: John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • In The Company, the largely unknown history of the joint-stock company is presented by the editors of Economist....

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