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Hell to Pay Cover
Author: Michael Lind | Narrator: Joe Knezevich
Release Date: May 02, 2023
From one of America’s leading thinkers, a provocative diagnosis of the cause of America’s decline—and a searing indictment of those who caused itFor nearly half a century, Americans have been bombarded by neoliberal propaganda promo...
Hell to Pay Cover
Author: Senator Bernie Sanders | Narrator: Senator Bernie Sanders
Release Date: February 21, 2023
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look likeIt...
Author: Martin Wolf | Narrator: John Lee
Release Date: February 07, 2023
From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone, and what can be done to reverse this terrifying dynamicMartin Wolf has long been one...
Author: Amy Klobuchar | Narrator: Nan McNamara and Amy Klobuchar
Release Date: April 27, 2021
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Antitrust enforcement is one of the most pressing issues facing America today—and Amy Klobuchar, the widely respected senior senator from Minnesota, is leading the charge. This fascinating history of the antitrust mov...
Author: Jonathan Levy | Narrator: John Lee
Release Date: April 20, 2021
A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead.“The best one-volume history of American capi...
Author: Michael Lind | Narrator: Robert Petkoff
Release Date: January 21, 2020
In both Europe and North America, populist movements have shattered existing party systems and thrown governments into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims that these populist insurgencies seek to overthrow liberal democracy. The truth is no l...
Author: Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | Narrator: Stephen Graybill
Release Date: September 24, 2019
From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can...
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Narrator: Joe Ochman
Release Date: February 27, 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative a...
Author: William D. Cohan | Narrator: Rob Shapiro
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible—albeit flawed—engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers...
Author: James Kwak | Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and...
Author: James Stone | Narrator: Christopher Grove
Release Date: July 05, 2016
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America’s five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality.America today confronts a host of ur...
Author: Chris Hayes | Narrator: Chris Hayes
Release Date: June 12, 2012
A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another –  from Wall S...