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Principles of Economics: Business, Banking, Finance, and Your Everyday Life
by Peter Navarro
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
This course introduces both macro economics and micro economics.
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Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($23.99)
This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best-seller list since its publication....
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The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
Available on: Audio Download ($23.93) | Audio CD
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications....
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Lords of Finance
by Liaquat Ahamed
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($44.99) | MP3 CD ($31.49)
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control.
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Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Ecomomy
by Thomas Sowell
Available on: Audio Download ($27.95) | Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette ($29.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Basic Economics has been written with the thought that learning economics should be not only a relaxed experience but also an enjoyable one.
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The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
by John C. Bogle
Available on: Audio Download ($19.96) | Audio CD ($39.98)
There is no one better qualified to tell us about the failures of the American financial system and the grotesque abuses that have taken place in recent years than John C. Bogle, founder and former chief executive of the Vanguard mutual fund group.
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
Available on: Audio Download ($19.95) | Audio CD ($29.95) | Audio Cassette ($26.96) | MP3 CD ($26.96)
This is the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire.
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
by Thomas L. Friedman
Available on: Audio Download ($9.09) | Audio CD ($20.00) | Audio Cassette
Globalization is not just a phenomenon and not just a passing trend. It is the international system that replaced...
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Free to Choose
by Milton Friedman
Available on: Audio Download ($22.95) | Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette ($29.95) | MP3 CD ($26.96)
Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, teamed up to write this most convincing and readable guide, which illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society.
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Super Crunchers
by Ian Ayres
Available on: Audio Download ($26.67) | Audio CD
Economist Ian Ayres has spent the better part of his career examining the power in numbers. Decisions used to be made by traditional experts based on experience, intuition, and trial and error.
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House of Cards
by William D. Cohan
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($44.99) | MP3 CD ($31.49)
In March 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-four-year-old financial institution, was forced to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for an outrageously low price in a deal brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was desperately trying to prevent the impending catastrophic market crash.
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Ian Mitroff on Crisis Management
by Russ Volckmann
Available on: Audio Download ($3.00)
Russ Volckmann interviews Ian Mitroff, father of crisis management on critical factors in crisis management and the implications of the global financial crisis for how business leaders implement it.
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Banker to the Poor
by Muhammad Yunus
Available on: Audio Download ($16.95) | Audio CD ($19.95) | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | MP3 CD ($26.96)
In 1983 Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. He aimed to help the poor by supporting the spark of personal initiative and enterprise by which they could lift themselves out of poverty forever.
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The Trillion Dollar Meltdown
by Charles R. Morris
Available on: Audio Download ($19.56) | Audio CD ($25.16)
According to Charles R. Morris, the astronomical leverage at investment banks, with their hedge-fund and private-equity clients, virtually guarantees massive disruption in global markets. A quarter century of free-market zealotry that extolled asset striping, abusive lending, and hedge-fund secrecy will come crashing down with it.
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Applied Economics
by Thomas Sowell
Available on: Audio Download ($16.95) | Audio CD ($29.66) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
This book is geared to the average citizen with little or no economics background who would like the tools to think critically about economic issues.
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The Big Con
by Jonathan Chait
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
The Big Con is a brilliantly revealing look at how the radical ideas of a small group of economic hucksters have taken over the American political system and perverted our nation’s policies.
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The Classical Economists
by E.G. West
Available on: Audio Download ($11.95) | Audio CD ($17.95)
The classical economists pioneered a new way of thinking about the uniquely human tendency to produce, trade, consume, and accumulate.
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The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the New Economy
by Pekka Himanen
Available on: Audio Download ($16.67)
Nearly a century ago, Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism articulated the animating spirit of the industrial age. Now...
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Think India: The Rise of the World's Next Superpower and What It Means for Every American
by Vinay Rai
Available on: Audio Download ($15.00) | Audio CD ($26.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
With 1.1 billion residents, the world’s largest democracy is poised to dominate the world stage. One of India’s wealthiest men gives an insider’s view into his country’s dynamic transformation, revealing the forces and unique characteristics behind India’s meteoric rise.
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The Future of Success
by Robert B. Reich
Available on: Audio Download ($19.95)
The dizzying exuberance of the Internet-driven marketplace offers unprecedented opportunities and an ever-expanding choice of deals, products, investments, and jobs...
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Waking Dragon: The Emerging Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the World
by Peter Navarro
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
In this eye-opening series of lectures, business professor and best-selling author Peter Navarro dissects the coming China wars and their implications for all mankind.
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Discover Your Inner Economist
by Tyler Cowen
Available on: Audio Download ($15.00) | Audio CD ($26.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
In Discover Your Inner Economist, one of America’s most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning to your advantage---often when you least expect it to be relevant.
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Coal
by Barbara Freese
Available on: Audio Download ($19.50) | Audio CD ($35.10) | MP3 CD ($18.89)
The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history...
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Economic Facts and Fallacies
by Thomas Sowell
Available on: Audio Download ($19.95) | Audio CD ($80.00) | Audio Cassette ($59.95) | MP3 CD ($26.96)
Economic Facts and Fallacies is designed for people who want to understand economic issues without getting bogged down in economic jargon, graphs, or political rhetoric.
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The China Price
by Alexandra Harney
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Alexandra Harney uncovers the truth about how China is able to offer such amazingly low prices to the rest of the world. She has discovered that intense pricing pressure from Western companies combined with ubiquitous corruption and a lack of transparency exacts an unseen and unconscionable toll in human misery and environmental damage.
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