Louis Rukeyser Audiobooks

Alfred Marshall, (1842-1924) a British economics professor at Oxford University, developed economics into a more rigorous, professional discipline than ever before.

Jean Paul Getty and John Templeton are great examples of “bargain hunters” or “contrarians,” who seek to find promising stocks that are out of favor or fashion—and therefore undervalued.

The classical economists pioneered a new way of thinking about the uniquely human tendency to produce, trade, consume, and accumulate.

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.

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.

Carl Menger (1840-1921) and Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk (1851-1914), working in Vienna in the late nineteenth century, rejected the classical and Marxian ideas that value can be measured objectively.

Benjamin Graham developed "value investing," a style adopted by Warren Buffett, one of history's most successful investors…

For centuries, gold has been considered a safe haven; it is tangible, unlike an account balance, and its value is relatively stable, especially as a hedge against inflation.

The Great Economic Thinkers series is a collection of audio presentations that explain, in understandable language, the major ideas of historys most important economists. Special emphasis is placed on each thinkers attitude toward capitalism, revealing their influence in todays debate on economic progress and prosperity.

Saving, budgeting, and investing are keys to creating wealth— but there are many different philosophies about how to approach this essential task.