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The Shortest History of Migration
- Shortest Histories, Book 14
- By: Ian Goldin
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In this visionary Shortest History of Migration, Ian Goldin uncovers key moments of cultural exchange while carefully examining empire, slavery, and war. Throughout, we meet famous explorers (Zheng He), exiles (Pablo Neruda), and everyday people in extraordinary circumstances: a Jewish man saved by the Kindertransport, a Japanese gardener who blossomed in Mexico City.
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Excellent overview
- By Michael Bailey on 21-01-26
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The Shortest History of Migration
- Shortest Histories, Book 14
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 25-03-25
- Language: English
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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? His explanation is clear enough for anyone to follow and yet precise and rigorous enough to be the best textbook for college classes on the topic. This is because its expository clarity - in its history and theory - is essentially unrivaled. Most notably, he uses the T-account method of explaining the relationship between deposits and loans, showing the inherent instability of fractional reserve banking.
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The Mystery of Banking
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 18-08-16
- Language: English
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Wrecked
- The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy
- By: Thomas M Nelson, Jerald Podair
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Wrecked links the story of America’s most infamous shipwreck to the story of an even larger disaster—the wreck of the American industrial economy. When the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, more was lost than the ship and the twenty-nine lives on board. The disaster was a human tragedy as well as an indictment of the American industrial policies that eventually cost the nation thousands of jobs and marooned hundreds of communities.
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Wrecked
- The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 25-06-26
- Language: English
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For Profit
- A History of Corporations
- By: William Magnuson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR A THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Brilliantly conceived and enlightening at every turn' Lawrence Wright We have long been suspicious of corporations recklessly pursuing profit and amassing wealth and power. But the story of the corporation didn't...
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Lucid and comprehensive
- By Anonymous on 04-07-24
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For Profit
- A History of Corporations
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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Milton Friedman
- A Guide to His Economic Thought
- By: Eamonn Butler
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the great economists of the 20th century, Milton Friedman has always challenged the prevailing economic orthodoxy. At the same time, his work has become popular because it is engagingly written and because it helps in practical prediction. Thanks to Friedman, money is now regarded as a far more powerful factor than it had been before. It offers the prospect of permanently controlling the inflation that has become the most important economic problem of our age.
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Never get tired of listening to this
- By Anonymous on 20-10-24
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Milton Friedman
- A Guide to His Economic Thought
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 05-09-12
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Central Banking
- How the Quest for Financial Stability Led to Unconventional Monetary Practices
- By: Dominic Haynes
- Narrated by: Jeff Bower
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether you’re looking to deepen your knowledge of complex banking practices, better understand the history of international finance, or simply learn more about central banking as it relates to your everyday life, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction and solid foundation for future study.
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Dull with only surface level analysis,
- By Dominic Tweed on 05-08-25
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A Brief History of Central Banking
- How the Quest for Financial Stability Led to Unconventional Monetary Practices
- Narrated by: Jeff Bower
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 31-08-23
- Language: English
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Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue
- Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
- By: Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax. Sometimes they succeed astonishingly, as when, in 18th-century Britain, a cut in the tax on tea massively increased revenue. Two leading authorities on taxation provide a fascinating and informative tour through these and many other episodes in tax history, both preposterous and dramatic....
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rofl for nerds
- By Richard Tol on 28-07-23
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Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue
- Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-05-21
- Language: English
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The Enchantments of Mammon
- How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
- By: Eugene McCarraher
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 34 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. Ignoring the motive force of the spirit, capitalism rejects the awe-inspiring divine for the economics of supply and demand. Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether or not it is acknowledged. Capitalist enchantment first flowered in the fields and factories of England and was brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit.
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Immense
- By Barney Higgins on 18-05-25
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The Enchantments of Mammon
- How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 34 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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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. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-09-25
- Language: English
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Equality Is a Struggle
- Bulletins from the Front Line, 2021-2025
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-10-25
- Language: English
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Pricing the Future
- Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
- By: George Szpiro
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Financial economist George G. Szpiro here tells the fascinating stories of the pioneers of mathematical finance who conducted the search for the elusive options pricing formula. From the broker's assistant who published the first mathematical explanation of financial markets to Albert Einstein and other scientists, Pricing the Future retraces the historical and intellectual developments that ultimately led to the widespread use of mathematical models to drive investment strategies on Wall Street.
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Beste book I have "read" on futures & derivatives.
- By Emilie on 29-09-13
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Pricing the Future
- Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 29-11-11
- Language: English
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Wealth, War, and Wisdom
- By: Barton Biggs
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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In Wealth, War, and Wisdom, legendary Wall Street investor Barton Biggs reveals how the turning points of World War II intersected with market performance. Biggs will help the 21st-century investor comprehend our own perilous times as well as choose the best strategies for the modern market economy.
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It's a history book - no real market analysis
- By Paul on 01-06-11
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Wealth, War, and Wisdom
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 03-07-08
- Language: English
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Collusion
- How Central Bankers Rigged the World
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 04-05-18
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Utopia
- An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
- By: Brad de Long
- Narrated by: Allan Aquino
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the world's leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century - a century that left us vastly richer, yet still profoundly dissatisfied. Before 1870, most people lived in dire poverty, the benefits of the slow crawl of invention continually offset by a growing...
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A liberal view point
- By Russ. M on 13-12-22
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Slouching Towards Utopia
- An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Allan Aquino
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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The Great Economists
- How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today
- By: Linda Yueh
- Narrated by: Linda Yueh
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Great Economists written and read by Linda Yueh. What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time? Since the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but...
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Part History, Part Speculation
- By nk99 on 11-06-18
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The Great Economists
- How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today
- Narrated by: Linda Yueh
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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The Measure of Progress
- Counting What Really Matters
- By: Diane Coyle
- Narrated by: Harrie Dobby
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were entirely different from those of today. In The Measure of Progress, Diane Coyle argues that the framework underpinning today's economic statistics is so outdated that it functions as a distorting lens, or even a set of blinkers. When policymakers rely on such an antiquated conceptual tool, how can they measure, understand, and respond with any precision to what is happening in today's digital economy?
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An academic and detailed but not audio book optimised production
- By Hugh R. Liddell on 14-10-25
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The Measure of Progress
- Counting What Really Matters
- Narrated by: Harrie Dobby
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 01-04-25
- Language: English
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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes
- The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
- By: Raoul McLaughlin
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran). It explores Roman dealings with the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan) and laid claim to the Indus Kingdoms. Further chapters examine the development of Palmyra as a leading caravan city on the edge of Roman Syria and consider trade ventures through the Tarim territories that led Roman merchants to Han China.
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Fascinating details about all of the Roman contacts along the silk routes
- By J. Wexler on 28-09-25
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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes
- The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 18-09-19
- Language: English
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On Classical Economics
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The classical era in the history of economics is an important part of the history of ideas in general, and its implications reach beyond the bounds of the economics profession. On Classical Economics is a book from which students can learn both history and economics. It is not simply a Cook’s tour of colorful personalities of the past but a study of how certain economic concepts and tools of analysis arose, and how their implications were revealed during the controversies that followed.
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On Classical Economics
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-09-25
- Language: English
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The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It
- By: Katharina Pistor
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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A fascinating study of the legal underpinnings of capitalism, reasons why the system must be transformed, and actions we can take Even though capitalism has been conventionally described as an economic system, it is actually a deeply entrenched legal regime. Law provides the material for coding...
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The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 19-05-26
- Language: English
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Time for Socialism
- Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021
- By: Thomas Piketty
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Over the past four years, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty documented his close observations on current events through a regular column in the French newspaper Le Monde. His pen captured the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Macron’s ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always through the lens of Piketty’s fight for a more equitable world. This collection brings together those articles.
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Time for Socialism
- Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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