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The Oligarchs
- Wealth and Power in the New Russia
- By: David Hoffman
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance122
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A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy. David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for
The Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men Hoffman reveals how a few players managed to take over Russia's cash-strapped economy and then divvy it up in loans-for-shares deals.
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A great narrative ruined by appalling narration
- By Simon on 10-11-16
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The Oligarchs
- Wealth and Power in the New Russia
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 17-02-14
- Language: English
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Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
- By: Peter Brown
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 31 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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Story19
Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity.
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not suitable for audiobook
- By carl hindsgaul on 19-03-22
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Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 31 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 19-09-12
- Language: English
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Work
- A History of How We Spend Our Time
- By: James Suzman
- Narrated by: Matt Jamie
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance48
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Story47
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever-more automated present. The work we do brings us meaning, moulds our values, determines our social status and dictates how we spend most of our time. But this wasn't always the case: for 95 percent of our species' history, work held a radically different importance. How, then, did work become the central organisational principle of our societies? How did it transform our bodies, our environments, our views on equality and our sense of time?
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Thought provoking, excellent narration
- By Daniel Rock on 16-12-23
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Work
- A History of How We Spend Our Time
- Narrated by: Matt Jamie
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-10-20
- Language: English
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The Invisible Hook
- The Hidden Economics of Pirates
- By: Peter T. Leeson
- Narrated by: Jeremy Gage
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance25
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Story25
Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late 17th- and early 18th-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior.
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Patronising and Repetative
- By David on 30-10-11
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The Invisible Hook
- The Hidden Economics of Pirates
- Narrated by: Jeremy Gage
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-09-09
- Language: English
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The History of Money
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall100
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Performance77
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Story78
From primitive man's cowrie shells to the electronic cash card, from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange, The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives--economic, political, and personal.
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Journalistic account entertaining delivered
- By Horley, G on 27-02-21
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The History of Money
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 16-02-10
- Language: English
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The Battle of Bretton Woods
- John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
- By: Benn Steil
- Narrated by: Philip Rose
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance32
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Story31
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of 44 nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The actual story surrounding the historic Bretton Woods accords, however, is full of startling drama, intrigue, and rivalry, which are vividly brought to life in Benn Steil's account.
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Gripping and dull
- By Jason on 06-06-14
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The Battle of Bretton Woods
- John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
- Narrated by: Philip Rose
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-04-13
- Language: English
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall721
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Performance609
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Story595
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns.
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The most talked about non-fiction book this year
- By David on 08-08-14
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 22-05-14
- Language: English
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Misbehaving
- The Making of Behavioral Economics
- By: Richard H. Thaler
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,091
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Performance925
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Story917
Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth - and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world.
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Behavioural Economics in Perspective
- By Judy Corstjens on 27-01-16
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Misbehaving
- The Making of Behavioral Economics
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 18-05-15
- Language: English
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Keynes
- The Return of the Master
- By: Robert Skidelsky
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance15
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Story15
Keynes's preeminent biographer, Robert Skidelsky, brilliantly synthesizes from Keynes' career and life the aspects of his thinking that apply most directly to the world we currently live in. In so doing, Skidelsky shows that Keynes's mixture of pragmatism and realism, which distinguished his thinking from the neo-classical or Chicago school of economics that has been the dominant influence since the Thatcher-Reagan era and which made possible the raw market capitalism that created the current global financial crisis, is more pertinent and applicable than ever.
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Tedious
- By Terra72 on 21-02-16
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Keynes
- The Return of the Master
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 30-11-09
- Language: English
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The Economics of Inequality
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance43
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Story42
Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty’s The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics. This work now appears in English for the first time.
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feel cheated
- By Thomas Richardson on 21-02-22
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The Economics of Inequality
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 22-09-15
- Language: English
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After the Music Stopped
- The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
- By: Alan S. Blinder
- Narrated by: Graham Vick
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Alan S. Blinder - esteemed Princeton professor, Wall Street Journal columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan - is one of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers. In After the Music Stopped, he delivers a masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we must do to recover from it.
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After the Music Stopped
- The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
- Narrated by: Graham Vick
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 17-06-14
- Language: English
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Arthashastra
- A Masterpiece on Economic Policies
- By: Kautilya
- Narrated by: Suyash Mohan
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Arthashastra is an ancient Indian text on statecraft and governance, written by Kautilya, a philosopher and statesman. This edition features the original text with a beautifully designed cover. With insights on politics, economics, and military strategy, this book remains relevant to modern-day readers interested in leadership and governance.
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Arthashastra
- A Masterpiece on Economic Policies
- Narrated by: Suyash Mohan
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 18-08-25
- 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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Overall19
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Performance12
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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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Masters of the Universe
- Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
- By: Daniel Stedman Jones
- Narrated by: Ken Maxon
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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This book - the first comprehensive transatlantic history of the rise of neoliberal politics - presents a surprising answer. Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since. Daniel Stedman Jones argues that there was nothing inevitable about the victory of free-market politics.
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Incredible
- By Amazon Customer on 14-02-21
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Masters of the Universe
- Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
- Narrated by: Ken Maxon
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 05-12-12
- Language: English
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The Son Also Rises
- Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
- By: Gregory Clark
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance9
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How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries.
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The Son Also Rises
- Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 19-03-14
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
- The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
- By: Robert J. Gordon
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 30 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance33
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In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from 45 to 72 years. The Rise and Fall of American Growth provides an in-depth account of this momentous era.
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Good book; monotonous reading
- By carlota on 15-11-17
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
- The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 30 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 26-07-16
- Language: English
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When America First Met China
- An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
- By: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance3
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Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China.
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When America First Met China
- An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
- Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-06-13
- Language: English
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Chasing the White Dog
- An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in the Moonshine Capital of the World
- By: Max Watman
- Narrated by: Max Watman
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In Chasing the White Dog, journalist Max Watman traces the historical roots and contemporary story of hooch. He takes us to the backwoods of Appalachia and the gritty nip joints of Philadelphia, from a federal courthouse to Pocono Speedway, profiling the colorful characters who make up white whiskey's lore. Along the way, Watman chronicles his hilarious attempts to distill his own moonshine - the essential ingredients and the many ways it can all go wrong - from his initial ill-fated batch to his first successful jar of 'shine.
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Chasing the White Dog
- An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in the Moonshine Capital of the World
- Narrated by: Max Watman
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 11-10-13
- Language: English
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Capitalism and the Jews
- By: Jerry Z. Muller
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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Overall9
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Performance9
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The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality to explain why the Jewish experience with capitalism has been so important and complex - and so ambivalent.
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Succinct and sober
- By domo on 26-11-23
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Capitalism and the Jews
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-05-12
- Language: English
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The Great Contraction, 1929-1933
- By: Milton Friedman
- Narrated by: A. C. Fellner
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Performance5
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The Great Contraction, 1929-1933 argued that the Federal Reserve could have stemmed the severity of the Depression, but failed to exercise its role of managing the monetary system and ameliorating banking panics. This edition of the original text includes a new preface by Anna Jacobson Schwartz, as well as a new introduction by the economist Peter Bernstein.
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The Great Contraction, 1929-1933
- Narrated by: A. C. Fellner
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 17-09-09
- Language: English
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