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    • How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper
    • By: Paul Sheard
    • Narrated by: Michael Langan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Money issues dominate the news, but economic jargon and the complexity of it all can be bamboozling for regular folks. Paul Sheard, a leading economist and research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, is known for his ability to see the forest and the trees and demystify complex economic phenomena....

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    • From Consumer Behavior to Competitive Markets—Everything You Need to Know About Economics
    • By: Alfred Mill
    • Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • So much of the world revolves around economics, so why do most texts make it so dull and difficult to learn? But learning economics doesn’t have to be boring. In Economics 101, you’ll see how learning economics can be engaging....

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    • How Finance Wins
    • By: Lawrence R. Jacobs, Desmond King
    • Narrated by: Bob Reed
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Fed Power is the first sustained examination of the Fed as a potent political institution that systematically provides concealed advantages to a privileged few....

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    • By: Menzie Chinn, Jeffrey A. Frieden
    • Narrated by: Ira Rosenberg
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A clear, authoritative guide to the crisis of 2008, its continuing repercussions, and the needed reforms ahead....

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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 Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
    • By: Karen Petrou
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Engine of Inequality reveals how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy....

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    • How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
    • By: Judith Stein
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory....

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    • The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
    • By: Dani Rodrik
    • Narrated by: James Conlan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works....

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    • Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street
    • By: Kathleen Day
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the US financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their freedom....

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    • The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
    • By: Jeanna Smialek
    • Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Jeanna Smialek
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • A fascinating deep dive into one of the most powerful and least understood American institutions—the Federal Reserve....

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    • The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
    • By: Rana Foroohar
    • Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 496 ratings
    • Through colorful stories of both “Takers”, those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers”, businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward....

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    • Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
    • By: Luigi Zingales
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment - paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism - on a country’s economy....

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    • Finance for the Rest of Us
    • By: Gerald Epstein
    • Narrated by: Kent Klineman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform.

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    • Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject—In One Book!
    • By: Elaine Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Economics provides you with all the concepts you need to understand the fundamental issues....

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    • How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World
    • By: Karl Denninger, Charles Hugh Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Christy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • How the wealthy and powerful abuse finance to skim immense profits....

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    • During the Impending Collapse, How Do You Increase Your Riches?
    • By: Iraida Perez
    • Narrated by: Tanvir Karim
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-24
    • Language: English
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    • In an era marked by economic turbulence and societal upheaval, "A Drastic Decrease" offers a beacon of hope and a strategic roadmap for those looking to not just survive, but thrive.

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    • False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
    • By: Binyamin Appelbaum
    • Narrated by: Dan Bittner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • In this fascinating character-driven history, a New York Times editorial writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist spotlights the American economists who championed the rise of markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world....

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    • How to Profit from the Economic Collapse
    • By: Peter D. Schiff
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 526 ratings
    • The economic and monetary disaster, which Peter Schiff warned of in the bestselling first edition of Crash Proof, is no longer hypothetical - it is here today....

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    • Everything You Need to Know to Survive the Financial Crisis
    • By: Jonathan D. Pond
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-09
    • Language: English
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    • Consumers looking to protect their financial future in today's turbulent economy will find all the right advice in Safe Money in Tough Times....

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