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US Federal Reserve
by iMinds Audio
Credits: Audio Download
Learn about the US Federal Reserve with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to broaden your mind.
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Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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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Super Crunchers
by Ian Ayres
Credits: Audio Download
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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Free to Choose
by Milton Friedman
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
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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The Trillion Dollar Meltdown
by Charles R. Morris
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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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Behavioral Economics
by iMinds Audio
Credits: Audio Download
Learn about Behavioral Economics with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to broaden your mind.
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Principles of Economics: Business, Banking, Finance, and Your Everyday Life
by Peter Navarro
Credits: Audio Download
This course introduces both macro economics and micro economics.
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Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Ecomomy
by Thomas Sowell
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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
Credits: Audio Download
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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The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
Credits: Audio Download
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications....
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
by Thomas L. Friedman
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Globalization is not just a phenomenon and not just a passing trend. It is the international system that replaced...
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
Credits: Audio Download | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
This is the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire.
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Ian Mitroff on Crisis Management
by Russ Volckmann
Credits: Audio Download
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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House of Cards
by William D. Cohan
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
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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Banker to the Poor
by Muhammad Yunus
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
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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Lords of Finance
by Liaquat Ahamed
Credits: Audio Download | MP3 CD
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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The Age of Turbulence
by Alan Greenspan
Credits: Audio CD
"This book is in part a detective story. After 9/11 I knew, if I needed further reinforcement, that we are living in a new world - the world of a global capitalist economy that is vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-correcting, and fast-changing than it was even a quarter century earlier..."
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The Big Con
by Jonathan Chait
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
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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Applied Economics
by Thomas Sowell
Credits: Audio Download | Audio 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 Age of Turbulence
by Alan Greenspan
Credits: Audio CD
"This book is in part a detective story. After 9/11 I knew, if I needed further reinforcement, that we are living in a new world - the world of a global capitalist economy that is vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-correcting, and fast-changing than it was even a quarter century earlier..."
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The Classical Economists
by E.G. West
Credits: Audio Download
The classical economists pioneered a new way of thinking about the uniquely human tendency to produce, trade, consume, and accumulate.
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Supercapitalism
by Robert Reich
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
From one of the nations most valued voices on politics, business, and the economy, the bestselling author of "Locked in the Cabinet" and "The Work of Nations" discusses the clash between capitalism and democracy, in this timely, impassioned, and highly important book.
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The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the New Economy
by Pekka Himanen
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
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
Credits: Audio Download
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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