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The Entrepreneurs
- The Relentless Quest for Value
- By: Derek Lidow
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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As far back as we can trace human history, there have been entrepreneurs. Almost five millennia ago, copper tool manufacturers set up a factory in what today is southwest Spain, profiting for hundreds of years from trade around the Mediterranean. Papyri document the diverse investments of an ancient Egyptian businessperson, from grain-yielding land to flax for linen cloth. What do these figures have in common with renowned modern entrepreneurs, and how do their similarities help us achieve a deeper understanding of entrepreneurship?
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The Entrepreneurs
- The Relentless Quest for Value
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-12-22
- Language: English
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Europe Since 1989
- A History
- By: Philipp Ther
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago School achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course of the political, economic, and social changes that transformed Europe over the next quarter century. This award-winning book provides the first comprehensive history of post-1989 Europe.
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Europe Since 1989
- A History
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 27-06-17
- Language: English
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River of Dark Dreams
- Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
- By: Walter Johnson
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
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When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an "empire for liberty" populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves.
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River of Dark Dreams
- Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 19-10-21
- Language: English
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
- The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
- By: Daina Ramey Berry
- Narrated by: Pippa Vos
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives—including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the senior years, and death—in the early American domestic slave trade.
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
- The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
- Narrated by: Pippa Vos
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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Rogue Economics
- Capitalism's New Reality
- By: Loretta Napoleoni
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Economist and syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni argues that the world is undergoing rapid and unexpected great transformations fueled by what she calls rogue economics. Eagerly awaited around the world (translation rights have already been sold throughout Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia), Napoleoni's account is based on top-to-bottom primary-source interviews from banking executives in New York to Russian prostitutes to London morgue workers.
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Outstanding.
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Rogue Economics
- Capitalism's New Reality
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 17-09-09
- Language: English
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Mass Flourishing
- How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
- By: Edmund Phelps
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating not just unprecedented material wealth but "flourishing"--meaningful work, self-expression, and personal growth for more people than ever before?
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Cannot get engaged enough to complete the book
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Mass Flourishing
- How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-12-13
- Language: English
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When Money Talks
- A History of Coins and Numismatics
- By: Frank L. Holt
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then, dig into your purse or pocket for that one artifact that they would immediately recognize. Historian Frank L. Holt takes us on a journey through the history of numismatics, the study of coins - one of the oldest and most important contributions to the arts and humanities.
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When Money Talks
- A History of Coins and Numismatics
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 28-12-21
- Language: English
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Investment Atlas II
- Using History as a Financial Tool
- By: Ken Winans
- Narrated by: Steve Corona
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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In his acclaimed new book Investment Atlas II: Using History as a Financial Tool, Winans shows listeners how to become profitable users of investment history rather than future victims of it. Just as travelers use a road atlas to learn about their destination and prevent the embarrassing and costly act of getting lost, Winans encourages investors to learn from history in order to successfully tackle the age-old challenges inherent in profitable investing.
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Investment Atlas II
- Using History as a Financial Tool
- Narrated by: Steve Corona
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 24-07-20
- Language: English
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Small, Medium, Large
- How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse
- By: Colleen A. Dunlavy
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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An engrossing new work of economic history, Small, Medium, Large will make scholars, students, and general audiences alike think differently about the history of mass production and consumption.
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Small, Medium, Large
- How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-11-24
- Language: English
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Financing Opportunity
- How Financial Markets Have Fueled American Prosperity for More than Two Centuries
- By: Norbert J. Michel, Jennifer J. Schulp
- Narrated by: Michael Lyons
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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By providing historical context and a thorough yet easily accessible explanation of US financial markets, authors Norbert Michel and Jennifer Schulp provide a much-needed counterpoint to current debates and criticisms. "Financing Opportunity" not only busts many popular myths about financial markets but also proposes ways to improve how our financial markets function. With financial markets and American opportunity so closely tied, financial policy is vital to supporting growth, productivity, and prosperity.
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Financing Opportunity
- How Financial Markets Have Fueled American Prosperity for More than Two Centuries
- Narrated by: Michael Lyons
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 30-09-24
- Language: English
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Le quai de Ouistreham
- By: Florence Aubenas
- Narrated by: Fabienne Loriaux
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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"La crise. On ne parlait que de ça, mais sans savoir réellement qu'en dire, ni comment en prendre la mesure. Tout donnait l'impression d'un monde en train de s'écrouler."
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Le quai de Ouistreham
- Narrated by: Fabienne Loriaux
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-08-10
- Language: French
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Easy Money, Book 2
- The Evolution of the Global Financial System to the Great Bubble Burst
- By: Vivek Kaul
- Narrated by: Kaushik Ramachandran
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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The second book in the Easy Money trilogy discusses how the global financial system evolved in the aftermath of the First World War and how that finally led to the dot-com crash in the United States, in the early 2000s. It gives an overview of how in the aftermath of the First World War, Europe was in major trouble. The book also analyzes how the United Kingdom of Great Britain, which was once the premier nation of the world, lost out to its former colony, the United States of America.
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Easy Money, Book 2
- The Evolution of the Global Financial System to the Great Bubble Burst
- Narrated by: Kaushik Ramachandran
- Series: Easy Money Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 11-01-19
- Language: English
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The Outline of Sanity
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Seth Trey
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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The experiments of both Capitalism and Communism are almost complete, and they both lead to one big organization controlling everything you do. In 1925, when this book was first published, it was true, and it is even truer today.
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The Outline of Sanity
- Narrated by: Seth Trey
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 31-07-24
- Language: English
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JPMorgan's Fall and Revival
- How the Wave of Consolidation Changed America's Premier Bank
- By: Nicholas P. Sargen
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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This book tells the untold story of how JPMorgan became a universal bank in the 1980s-1990s and the events leading to it being acquired by Chase in 2000. It depicts the challenges Morgan's leaders, Lew Preston and Dennis Weatherstone, confronted when the firm's business model was disrupted by the developing country debt crisis, up to its current management with Jamie Dimon.
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JPMorgan's Fall and Revival
- How the Wave of Consolidation Changed America's Premier Bank
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-12-20
- Language: English
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The Theory of Business Enterprise
- By: Thorstein Veblen
- Narrated by: Sal Stevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) is a political economy book by Thorstein Veblen which examines the growing corporate domination of culture and the economy. At its core, The Theory of Business Enterprise is an analysis of two intertwined but clashing motivations: that of business and that of industry. Business is the making of profits. Industry is the making of goods.
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The Theory of Business Enterprise
- Narrated by: Sal Stevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-05-19
- Language: English
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The Einstein of Money
- The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
- By: Joe Carlen
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Warren Buffett has repeatedly acknowledged Benjamin Graham, a man he personally studied and worked under, as the primary influence on his investment approach. Indeed, there is a direct line between the record-shattering investing performance of Buffett (and other value investors) and Graham's life. In six books and dozens of papers, Graham—widely known as the "Dean of Wall Street"—left an extensive account of an investing system that, as Buffett can attest to, actually works!
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- By Mr on 06-05-20
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The Einstein of Money
- The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 28-09-12
- Language: English
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Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
- By: Philip S. Foner, Robin D.G. Kelley - foreword
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
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In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of black workers’ contribution to the American labor movement.
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Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 31-12-19
- Language: English
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The Little Big Number
- How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do About It
- By: Dirk Philipsen
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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In one lifetime GDP, or gross domestic product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, and purpose.
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The Little Big Number
- How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 25-05-15
- Language: English
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The Rush
- America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
- By: Edward Dolnick
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves - for the first time ever - to imagine a future of ease and splendor.
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The Rush
- America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-08-14
- Language: English
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Scandal!
- Amazing Tales of Scandals that Shocked the World and Shaped Modern Business
- By: The Editors of Fortune Magazine
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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Consider, for example, the case of the Swedish match king. At one time, Ivar Kreuger, manufactured almost half of the world's matches, with monopolies in 16 countries. He had so much money that he was a reliable lender to many countries, becoming known as the 'saviour of Europe' for his willingness to give aid to banks crippled by World War I. At the time of the 1929 market crash, his was the most widely held stock in the world. When he killed himself three years later, the whole thing went up in flames.
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Scandal!
- Amazing Tales of Scandals that Shocked the World and Shaped Modern Business
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 19-08-13
- Language: English
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