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    • The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,977 ratings
    • Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....

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    • How Prosperity Evolves
    • By: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,453 ratings
    • Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. The pessimists insist that we will reach a turning point and things will get worse. But they have been saying this for 200 years....

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    • The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
    • By: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 432 ratings
    • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world....

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    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,118 ratings
    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
    • By: Kurt Andersen
    • Narrated by: Kurt Andersen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,170 ratings
    • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change - and charts a way back to the future....

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    • The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
    • By: Michael Lewis
    • Narrated by: Blair Hardman, Jesse Boggs
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 439 ratings
    • A masterful account of today's money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk leads to catastrophe....

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    • How New Ideas Emerge
    • By: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 758 ratings
    • The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch - the endless fascination human beings have with design rather than evolution....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Risk
    • By: Peter L. Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Mike Fraser
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 262 ratings
    • In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past.

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    • And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
    • By: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: Matt Ridley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 788 ratings
    • Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society....

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    • Hyperinflation, Hitler's Pusch and Democracy in Crisis
    • By: Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase - translator
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From a New York Times bestselling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis that threatened to unravel the Weimar Republic....

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    • Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
    • By: Grace Blakeley
    • Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • It’s easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an era marked by war, climate crisis, political polarization, and acute inequality—and yet many of us feel powerless to do anything about these profound issues....

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    • By: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States....

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    • The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany
    • By: Adam Fergusson
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 12-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 600 ratings
    • When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nations currency depreciates beyond recovery....

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    • How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
    • By: Melissa S. Kearney
    • Narrated by: Cait Raymond
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a data-driven case for marriage by showing how the institution's decline has led to a host of economic woes—problems that have fractured American society and rendered vulnerable populations even more vulnerable.

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    • Episodes in Monetary History
    • By: Milton Friedman
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 442 ratings
    • The work of 2 obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan....

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    • How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years
    • By: Ulbe Bosma
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. Granulated sugar was first produced in India around the sixth century BC, yet for almost 2,500 years afterward sugar remained marginal in the diets of most people. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere....

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    • A Short History of Humanity
    • By: Andrew Leigh
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Harvard-trained economist Andrew Leigh presents a new way to understand the human story. From the dawn of agriculture to AI, here is story of how ingenuity, greed, and desire for betterment have, to an astonishing degree, determined our past, present, and future.

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    • When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900
    • By: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions....

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