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Nordisk socialisme
- På vej mod en demokratisk økonomi
- By: Pelle Dragsted
- Narrated by: Morten Rønnelund
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Finanskrise, klimaforandringer og voksende social og økonomisk ulighed har de seneste år fået stadig flere til at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved den kapitalistiske økonomi. Samtidig er socialistiske idéer om en demokratisering af økonomien igen sat på dagsordenen. Men hvordan kan økonomien styres mere demokratisk? Hvad betyder det at demokratisere ejerskabet, og hvem skal egentlig eje virksomheder og banker? Hvilken rolle skal markedsmekanismer spille? Og hvordan skaber vi en økonomi, der sikrer mest mulig frihed og indflydelse for den enkelte.
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Nordisk socialisme
- På vej mod en demokratisk økonomi
- Narrated by: Morten Rønnelund
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 20-05-21
- Language: Danish
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Undercurrent
- A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience
- By: Natasha Carthew
- Narrated by: Natasha Carthew
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Natasha Carthew grew up in rural poverty in Cornwall, battling limited opportunities, precarious resources, escalating property prices, isolation and a community marked by the ravages of inequality. Her world existed alongside the postcard picture Cornwall, where wealth and privilege converged on sandy beaches and expensive second homes. In the rockpools and hedgerows of the natural world, Natasha found solace in the beauty of the landscape, and in the mobile library she found her means of escape. In her first non-fiction audiobook she returns to the cliff-paths of her childhood.
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Honesty
- By Happy Days Mum on 29-04-24
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Undercurrent
- A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience
- Narrated by: Natasha Carthew
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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Wealth Supremacy
- How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises
- By: Marjorie Kelly
- Narrated by: Tiffany Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Kelly argues instead for the democratization of ownership, including public ownership of vital services, worker-owned businesses, and more. She sketches the outlines of a nonextractive capitalism that would be subordinate to the public interest. This is an ambitious reimagining of the very foundations of our economy and society.
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Wealth Supremacy
- How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises
- Narrated by: Tiffany Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-08-23
- Language: English
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Imagination
- A Manifesto
- By: Ruha Benjamin
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
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Imagination: A Manifesto offers visionary examples and tactics to push beyond the constraints of what we think, and are told, is possible. This book is for anyone who is ready to take to heart Toni Morrison's instruction: "Dream a little before you think."
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Imagination
- A Manifesto
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 30-04-24
- Language: English
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Janesville
- An American Story
- By: Amy Goldstein
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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A Washington Post reporter's intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin - Paul Ryan's hometown - and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class. This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills - but it's not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long enough to notice what happens next, when a community with a can-do spirit tries to pick itself up.
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excellent and sad story of a town
- By rikki on 17-08-20
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Janesville
- An American Story
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 18-04-17
- Language: English
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Global Inequality
- A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
- By: Branko Milanovic
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice.
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Global Inequality
- A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-07-17
- Language: English
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Ours Was the Shining Future
- The Story of the American Dream
- By: David Leonhardt
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
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Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world's most powerful country? And what happened to the "American dream"? Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Leonhardt examines the past century of American history, from the Great Depression to today's Great Stagnation, in search of an answer.
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Ours Was the Shining Future
- The Story of the American Dream
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- By: Thorstein Veblen
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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In this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed in society results from the tendency to believe that true accomplishment lies in arriving at a condition of ostentatious wealth and status.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Dr. Dylan Evans on 01-10-23
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 19-12-17
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
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Part social reportage, part socialist polemic, The Road to Wigan Pier sets out a hellish vision of a broken Britain before delivering a meditation on how we can create a more egalitarian society. Having travelled to the industrial north of England on assignment from his editor, Orwell's confronting, stark descriptions of the social injustice, cramped slum housing, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment he encounters are written with unblinking honesty, anger and humanity.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 20-12-21
- Language: English
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Stolen Pride
- Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
- By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel "stolen"? Hochschild's research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation.
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Stolen Pride
- Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
- By: Lauren Hough
- Narrated by: Lauren Hough, Cate Blanchett
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. As a child, however, she had none. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own self robbed from her. The cult took her all over the globe - to Germany, Japan, Texas, Chile - but it wasn't until she finally left for good that Lauren understood she could have a life beyond 'The Family'. Along the way, she's loaded up her car and started over, trading one life for the next.
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Can't stop until it's finished
- By R. Talbot on 26-05-21
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
- Narrated by: Lauren Hough, Cate Blanchett
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 29-04-21
- Language: English
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Fractured
- Why Our Societies Are Coming Apart and How We Put Them Back Together Again
- By: Jon Yates
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more understanding, tolerant and even friendly we become. Combining fresh analysis with a wealth of fascinating examples, Jon Yates demonstrates the ways in which our societies have become disconnected, so that most of us spend less and less time with people who are different - as defined by age, race or class, earning power or education.
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This is brilliant. A must read.
- By Anonymous User on 07-09-22
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The Alternative
- How to Build a Just Economy
- By: Nick Romeo
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Journalist Nick Romeo has spent years covering the world's most innovative economic and policy ideas for the New Yorker. Romeo takes us on an extraordinary journey through the unforgettable stories and successes of people working to build economies that are more equal, just, and liveable....
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The Alternative
- How to Build a Just Economy
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 18-01-24
- Language: English
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Lost in Work
- Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)
- By: Amelia Horgan
- Narrated by: Libby Mai
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie—at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfilment, 'work' means precarity, anxiety and alienation. In this audiobook, beautifully narrated by award-winning actor Libby Mai, Amelia Horgan poses three big questions: what is work? How does it harm us? And what can we do about it?
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Lost in Work
- Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)
- Narrated by: Libby Mai
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 10-12-22
- Language: English
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The Privateers
- How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
- By: Josh Cowen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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This thought-provoking work traces the origins of voucher-based education reform to mid-twentieth-century fears over school desegregation. It shows how, in the intervening decades, a cabal of billionaire conservatives supporting a host of special political interests-including economic libertarianism, religious choice, and parental rights-have converged around the issue of education freedom in an ongoing culture war. Through deliberate policymaking, legislation, and litigation, Cowen reveals, an insular advocacy network has enacted a flawed system for education finance driven largely by dogma.
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The Privateers
- How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-09-24
- Language: English
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The Mind and Society, Volume I
- By: Vilfredo Pareto
- Narrated by: Daniel Natal
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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Dive into the profound insights of Vilfredo Pareto in The Mind and Society, a timeless exploration of human behavior and social dynamics. Pareto's keen observations and analytical brilliance illuminate the complex interplay of power, elites, and the intricate web that shapes the mind and structures our societies.
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The Mind and Society, Volume I
- Narrated by: Daniel Natal
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 23-02-24
- Language: English
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From the Ashes
- Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
- By: Sarah Jaffe
- Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, of unraveling hopes and expectations, of dreams curtailed, of aspirations desiccated. At the same time, we are denied the means of mourning the futures that are being so brutally curtailed. At such a moment, taking the time to grieve is a radical act. Through in-depth reporting intertwined with memoir, Sarah Jaffe shows how public memorialization has become more than a refusal or a protest: it is a path to imagining a better world.
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From the Ashes
- Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
- Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-09-24
- Language: English
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The 9.9 Percent
- The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
- By: Matthew Stewart
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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In 21st century America, the top 0.1 percent of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90 percent have lost ground. What’s left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9 percent that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth. Collectively, the members of this group control more than half of the wealth in the country - and they are doing whatever it takes to hang on to their piece of the action in an increasingly unjust system.
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Excellent
- By Sophia K on 24-08-22
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The 9.9 Percent
- The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 12-10-21
- Language: English
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Heartland
- A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
- By: Sarah Smarsh
- Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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An eye-opening, topical, and moving memoir of one woman’s experience of working-class poverty in America. Born a fifth-generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side and the product of generations of teenage mothers on her maternal side, Smarsh grew up in a family of labourers trapped in a cycle of poverty. She learned about hard work and also absorbed painful lessons about economic inequality, eventually coming to understand the powerful forces that have blighted the lives of poor and working-class Americans living in the heartland.
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Powerful memoir and critique
- By Arlene Finnigan on 23-11-21
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Heartland
- A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
- Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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Das Kapital
- Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie
- By: Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Johannes Steck, Gert Heidenreich
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Die Party ist vorbei. Der Crash ist da. Aus der Bankenkrise 2008 wurde über Nacht eine Krise der Weltwirtschaft. Da ist guter Rat teuer, und man beginnt sich an die Spekulationsblasen und Krisen der Vergangenheit zu erinnern. Kapitalismuskritik ist wieder in Mode, bleibt aber meist an der Oberfläche. Doch wie keinem anderen Ökonomen ist es vor 150 Jahren Karl Marx gelungen, die aberwitzigen Bewegungen des Kapitals und seinen Hang zur Selbstzerstörung zu beleuchten.
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Das Kapital
- Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie
- Narrated by: Johannes Steck, Gert Heidenreich
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 23-12-13
- Language: German
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