Economic disparity

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    • The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality....

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    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....

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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: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale....

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    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • The History of a Dangerous Idea
    • By: Mark Blyth
    • Narrated by: Fred Stella
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse....

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    • How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
    • By: Katharina Pistor
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? Find out....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 12-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Walter Scheidel
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....

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    • How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids
    • By: Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 15-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Parents everywhere want their children to do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this varies enormously. Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti reveal that in countries with increasing economic inequality, parents push harder to ensure their children have a path to success....

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    • How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
    • By: Richard V. Reeves
    • Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle....

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    • A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
    • By: Klaus Schwab, Peter Vanham - contributor
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Our global economic system is broken. But we can replace the current picture of global upheaval, unsustainability, and uncertainty with one of an economy that works for all people, and the planet....

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    • The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
    • By: Karen Petrou
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Engine of Inequality reveals how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy....

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    • How to Save the World from Financialisation
    • By: Grace Blakeley
    • Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 13-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....

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    • A Guide to His Economic Thought
    • By: Eamonn Butler
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • One of the great economists of the 20th century, Milton Friedman has always challenged the prevailing economic orthodoxy....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential audio reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work....

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    • How Capitalism Broke Its Contract with Hard Work
    • By: Robert Verkaik
    • Narrated by: Chris Clarkson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality....

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    • The World Leaders Who Changed Economics
    • By: Vince Cable
    • Narrated by: Edward Mitchell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A captivating economic history of government all over the world....

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    • Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
    • By: Peter Temin
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, play an important part in the widening gap between rich and poor....

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