Global Economic History

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    • Your Shortcut to the Most Important Ideas on Capitalism, Finance, and the Global Economy
    • By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-17
    • Language: English
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    • 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism, and the global economy....

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    • An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters 2nd Edition
    • By: Pietra Rivoli
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
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    • Using a simple, everyday T-shirt as a lens through which to explore the business, economic, moral, and political complexities of globalization in a historical context, Travels encapsulates a number of complex issues into a single identifiable object that will strike a chord .... 

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    • When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist system into a tailspin. The consequences of these mounting and intertwined crises will shape our future....

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    • Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies
    • By: William T. Vollmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Series: Carbon Ideologies, Book 2
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
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    • The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where "America's best friend" is not merely a fuel, but a "heritage"....

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    • A Global History of Financial Bubbles
    • By: William Quinn, John D. Turner
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
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    • Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts, and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles....

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    • The User's Guide
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
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    • Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works - in real-world terms....

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    • A Warning to the Global Middle Class
    • By: Joel Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 476 ratings
    • Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Sven Beckert
    • Narrated by: Jim Frangione
    • Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 557 ratings
    • Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating audiobook tells the story of how European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry....

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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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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 104 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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    • A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
    • By: Branko Milanovic
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale....

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    • A History of Global Capitalism Since 1945
    • By: Mike Mason
    • Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Both erudite and accessibly written, Turbulent Empires provides an insightful and sweeping analysis of world political and economic history that is an ideal introduction to postwar political science, history, and development studies....

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    • How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
    • By: Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force....

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    • A Literary History
    • By: Mark Steven
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
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    • A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat....

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    • The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
    • By: Chrystia Freeland
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically....

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    • The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
    • By: Peter Zeihan
    • Narrated by: Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,927 ratings
    • Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Find out more....

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    • The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939
    • By: Charles R. Morris
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Macreconomics is a social science, and such a massive event always takes its shape from a terrible confluence of factors....

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