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O Caminho da Servidão
- By: F. A. Hayek
- Narrated by: Ronnie de Campos Mello
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Hayek defende que todas as formas de coletivismo levam inevitavelmente à tirania e à supressão das liberdades, como se observou no nazismo alemão, no regime socialista da União Soviética e nos países do bloco comunista. O autor demonstra como a concentração do poder nas mãos de um limitado número de burocratas provoca divergências acerca da implementação das políticas econômicas, incitando o uso da força pelo governo para que suas medidas sejam toleradas. “O caminho tão defendido da liberdade se tornaria então o caminho da servidão”.
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Perfeito paradigma entre liberalismo e socialismo
- By Amazon Customer on 03-07-20
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O Caminho da Servidão
- Narrated by: Ronnie de Campos Mello
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 04-07-18
- Language: Portuguese
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The Great Persuasion
- Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression
- By: Angus Burgin
- Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Just as today’s observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider many of the most basic assumptions of our market-centered world.
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The Great Persuasion
- Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression
- Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 26-02-13
- Language: English
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Dumb Money
- How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation
- By: Daniel Gross
- Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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In this up to the minute account of the current financial crisis, Dan Gross goes step by step through the timeline leading up to the October 2008 bail-out and explains what exactly happened. Using information and statistics only weeks old, he offers a thorough and enlightening analysis of where we all go from here.
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Dumb Money
- How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation
- Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 23-02-09
- Language: English
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The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution
- Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy
- By: Joseph Fishkin, William E. Forbath
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 21 hrs and 44 mins
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Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political and constitutional thought.
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The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution
- Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 21 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 18-07-23
- Language: English
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A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America
- By: Susan Dunn
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the ruthless onslaught of the Nazi army and air force. Great Britain stood alone, a fragile bastion between Germany and American immersion in war. In the Pacific world, Japan had extended its tentacles deeper into China. Susan Dunn dramatically brings to life the most vital and transformational period of Roosevelt's presidency.
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A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 17-04-18
- Language: English
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American Amnesia
- How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Rich
- By: Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
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Like every other prospering democracy, the United States developed a mixed economy that channeled the spirit of capitalism into strong growth and healthy social development. In this bargain, government and business were as much partners as rivals. Public investments in education, science, transportation, and technology laid the foundation for broadly based prosperity.
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American Amnesia
- How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Rich
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 29-03-16
- Language: English
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Shenzhen - Zukunft Made in China
- Zwischen Kreativität und Kontrolle - die junge Megacity, die unsere Welt verändert
- By: Frank Sieren
- Narrated by: Frank Sieren
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
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Wer wissen möchte, wie wir und vor allem unsere Kinder bald schon leben, welche Technologien sie und die Welt prägen werden, muss durch Shenzhen streifen. Die 12-Millionen-Metropole in Südchina gehört zu den innovativsten Städten der Welt. Eine Megacity, die quasi aus dem Nichts entstand, wo Nachhaltigkeit und moderne Lebensqualität selbstverständlich sind, aber eben auch Gesichtserkennung und der gläserne Mensch. Die Cloud in Shenzhen weiß alles. Die Shenzhener Techies stellen inzwischen das Silicon Valley in den Schatten, ihre Start-ups zählen zu den wertvollsten der Welt.
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Shenzhen - Zukunft Made in China
- Zwischen Kreativität und Kontrolle - die junge Megacity, die unsere Welt verändert
- Narrated by: Frank Sieren
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 06-07-21
- Language: German
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How the Other Half Banks
- Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
- By: Mehrsa Baradaran
- Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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The United States has two separate banking systems today - one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services to cover emergency expenses and pay for necessities - all thanks to deregulation that began in the 1970s.
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How the Other Half Banks
- Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
- Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 31-08-16
- Language: English
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¿Qué falla con la economía?
- Manual urgente para combatir la incertidumbre
- By: Robert Skidelsky, Alexandre Casanovas López - traductor
- Narrated by: Santiago Gómez, Simon Gómez
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Una crítica vehemente y documentada al modo en el que entendemos hoy la economía. En su búsqueda de certidumbres científicas, la economía ha acabado imponiéndonos una visión del mundo demasiado estrecha y ha creado una ortodoxia que no es sana. Muchas de las decisiones más relevantes para nuestras sociedades se toman siguiendo premisas falsas y modelos económicos erróneos. La manera en que se enseña en la universidad no transmite a los estudiantes qué es lo más importante y verdadero de la vida humana.
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¿Qué falla con la economía?
- Manual urgente para combatir la incertidumbre
- Narrated by: Santiago Gómez, Simon Gómez
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 24-05-24
- Language: Spanish
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Cubed
- A Secret History of the Workplace
- By: Nikil Saval
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work - our work - gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it is - and what it might become.
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Cubed
- A Secret History of the Workplace
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 22-04-14
- Language: English
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The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure
- Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy’s Only Hope
- By: John Allison
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? Answer: no. Not only is free-market capitalism good for the economy, it is our only hope for recovery. As the nation’s longest-serving CEO of one of the top 25 financial institutions, John Allison has had a unique inside view of the events leading up to the financial crisis.
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Excellent
- By Felicity Evans on 03-09-22
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The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure
- Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy’s Only Hope
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 27-09-12
- Language: English
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The Great Depression
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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The Great Depression was one of the most trying eras in American history. All aspects of the US were affected. After the stock market crash of 1929, the nation was thrust into a decade of turmoil and change - in government, the economy, and culture. Many of the changes brought about by the Great Depression remain today.
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The Great Depression
- A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 11-06-18
- Language: English
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Franchise
- The Golden Arches in Black America
- By: Marcia Chatelain
- Narrated by: Machelle Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald's have long symbolized capitalism's villainous effects on our nation's most vulnerable communities. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place? In Franchise, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast food companies, black capitalists, and civil rights leaders, who believed they found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality.
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Franchise
- The Golden Arches in Black America
- Narrated by: Machelle Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-01-20
- Language: English
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New Retirement Rules
- Strategies for Succeeding in the Coming Economic Collapse
- By: Dennis Tubbergen
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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The premise of this book is that where we are headed economically is predictable. Economic cycles and money cycles have existed for 2,500 years. I have concluded from my study of economic history that where we are today economically speaking and where we go from here is as predictable as the sun rising and setting each day.
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New Retirement Rules
- Strategies for Succeeding in the Coming Economic Collapse
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 30-08-16
- Language: English
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How the Economy Works
- Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
- By: Roger E. A. Farmer
- Narrated by: John Curran
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
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The financial crisis that crested in 2008 destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking that had guided policymakers for a generation. But what will take its place? In How the Economy Works, one of our leading economists provides a jargon-free exploration of the current crisis, offering a powerful argument for how economics must change to get us out of it. Roger E. A. Farmer traces the swings between classical and Keynesian economics since the early 20th century, gracefully explaining the elements of both theories.
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How the Economy Works
- Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
- Narrated by: John Curran
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 29-12-15
- Language: English
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Masterless Men
- Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
- By: Keri Leigh Merritt
- Narrated by: Keri Leigh Merritt
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
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With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor whites could not compete - for jobs or living wages - with profitable slave labor. Though impoverished whites were never subjected to the daily violence and degrading humiliations of racial slavery, they did suffer tangible socioeconomic consequences as a result of living in a slave society.
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Masterless Men
- Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
- Narrated by: Keri Leigh Merritt
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 12-04-19
- Language: English
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Becoming Facebook
- The 10 Challenges That Defined the Company That's Disrupting the World
- By: Mike Hoefflinger
- Narrated by: Nicholas Techosky
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Facebook's founding is legend: In a Harvard dorm, wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg invented a new way to connect with friends...and the rest is history. But for the people who actually molded this great idea into a game-changing $300 billion company, the experience was far more tumultuous and uncertain than we might expect. Mike Hoefflinger was one of those Facebook insiders.
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Not a business book. No substance.
- By Jennifers Daddy on 10-05-18
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Becoming Facebook
- The 10 Challenges That Defined the Company That's Disrupting the World
- Narrated by: Nicholas Techosky
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-04-17
- Language: English
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Une brève histoire de la pensée économique
- By: Jean-Marc Daniel
- Narrated by: Jean-Marc Daniel
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Comment s'est construite et comment a évolué la pensée économique ? De l'antiquité aux théories économiques les plus récentes, les idées des grands économistes sont présentées ici dans leur contexte historique. Une série de séquences fluides et claires. Cet enregistrement se présente comme une série chronologique de séquences fluides et claires où les idées s'enrichissent mutuellement pour former un débat continu, une grande construction pleine de passerelles. Une introduction brillante à l'économie.
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Une brève histoire de la pensée économique
- Narrated by: Jean-Marc Daniel
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-01-24
- Language: French
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The Wealth of Nations
- By: Adam Smith
- Narrated by: Alan Munro
- Length: 45 hrs and 28 mins
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First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth. A fundamental work in classical economics. The book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets.
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The worse narration I have ever heard..
- By Kindle Customer on 13-06-20
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The Wealth of Nations
- Narrated by: Alan Munro
- Length: 45 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 14-02-20
- Language: English
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The Essential Hayek
- Essential Scholars
- By: Donald J. Boudreaux
- Narrated by: Satauna Howery
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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Nobel laureate economist F. A. Hayek first revolutionized economists' understanding of markets, and then profoundly challenged the public's understanding of government.
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The Essential Hayek
- Essential Scholars
- Narrated by: Satauna Howery
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-02-23
- Language: English
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