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Applied Economics
by Thomas Sowell
Formats: Audio Download ($16.95)
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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Banker to the Poor
by Muhammad Yunus
Formats: Audio Download ($16.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95)
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 Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
by John C. Bogle
Formats: Audio Download ($19.96)
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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Behavioral Economics
by iMinds Audio
Formats: Audio Download ($1.00)
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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The Big Con
by Jonathan Chait
Formats: Audio Download ($17.50)
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 Big Three in Economics: John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Adam Smith
by Mark Skousen
Formats: Audio Download ($19.95)
This is the fascinating story of opposing views that play a fundamental role in today's politics and economics, the ideas of the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.
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Catastrophe: The Story of Bernard L. Madoff, the Man Who Swindled the World
by Deborah Strober
Formats: Audio Download ($13.97) | Audio CD ($17.96)
In the first comprehensive account of Bernard Madoff, "Catastrophe" exposes the real story behind the financial mastermind's disastrous crimes.
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The China Price
by Alexandra Harney
Formats: Audio Download ($17.50)
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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The Classical Economists
by E.G. West
Formats: Audio Download ($11.95)
The classical economists pioneered a new way of thinking about the uniquely human tendency to produce, trade, consume, and accumulate.
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Coal
by Barbara Freese
Formats: Audio Download ($19.50) | MP3 CD ($18.89)
Average Rating:   (4.0 Stars)
The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history...
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
Formats: Audio Download ($19.95)
Average Rating: (3.6 Stars)
This is the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire.
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Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy
by Daniel Altman
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
What if you could look behind the headlines of the global economy to see how it really worked? Now you can.
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Crashes, Booms, Panics and Government Regulation
by Robert Sobel
Formats: Audio Download ($11.95)
Financial markets have an impressive history of gains and progress for prudent and judicious investors. But these advances are often interrupted by powerful and sudden setbacks or forward lurches.
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Deal Makers, Brokers, and Bankers
by Austin Lynas
Formats: Audio Download ($11.95)
The institutions and big players of Wall Street shape your financial world in a profound way; many act on behalf of millions of people as they invest pension funds, retirement plans, or other group assets.
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Discover Your Inner Economist
by Tyler Cowen
Formats: Audio Download ($15.00) | 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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Economic Facts and Fallacies
by Thomas Sowell
Formats: Audio Download ($19.95)
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 Economic Naturalists Field Guide: Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times
by Robert H. Frank
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
How do people actually behave when confronted with economic choices? And remember, almost every choice we make is economic. While our desires are boundless, our resources are limited and tradeoffs confront us at every turn.
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The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China, and What It Means for All of Us
by Robyn Meredith
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials, and monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles along newly built highways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo.
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Fairtax: The Truth
by Neal Boortz
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96)
In 2005 firebrand radio talk show host Neal Boortz and Georgia congressman John Linder created The FairTax Book, presenting the American public with a bold new plan designed to eliminate federal taxes and the IRS, jump-start the U.S. economy, bring back lost industries and jobs, and recapture billions of untaxed dollars currently hoarded by criminal and offshore businesses.
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Free Market Fantasies
by Noam Chomsky
Formats: Audio CD ($13.98)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
A refutation of the fantasies marketed as the "American Dream." The gulf between reality and a "free market" where entrepeneurs can compete on a level playing field is growing daily.
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Freedomnomics
by John Lott
Formats: Audio Download ($16.95)
Does the free market usually lead to unintended and negative consequences? Quite the opposite, says John Lott, who holds a Ph.D. in economics.
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The Future of Success
by Robert B. Reich
Formats: 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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The Go-Giver
by Bob Burg
Formats: Audio CD ($15.98)
The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success.
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The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the New Economy
by Pekka Himanen
Formats: Audio Download ($16.67)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
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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House of Cards
by William D. Cohan
Formats: Audio Download ($17.49)
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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