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Best Sellers
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We Have Never Been Woke
- The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
- Written by: Musa al-Gharbi
- Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively.
Written by: Musa al-Gharbi
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The Social Animal
- The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
- Written by: David Brooks
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live....
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just winderfull
- By BCNigam on 28-10-24
Written by: David Brooks
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I Hate the Ivy League
- Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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From Malcolm Gladwell’s hit podcast Revisionist History comes a compendium about one of his greatest obsessions: education....
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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99% Perspiration
- A New Working History of the American Way of Life
- Written by: Adam Chandler
- Narrated by: Adam Chandler
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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99% Perspiration unpacks the misguided obsession with hard work that has come to define both the American dream and nightmare, offering insight into how we got here and hope for where we may go.
Written by: Adam Chandler
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To Govern the Globe
- World Orders and Catastrophic Change
- Written by: Alfred W. McCoy
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
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In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders....
Written by: Alfred W. McCoy
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Das Kapital
- Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie
- Written by: Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Johannes Steck, Gert Heidenreich
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Die Party ist vorbei. Der Crash ist da. Aus der Bankenkrise 2008 wurde über Nacht eine Krise der Weltwirtschaft...
Written by: Karl Marx
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We Have Never Been Woke
- The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
- Written by: Musa al-Gharbi
- Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively.
Written by: Musa al-Gharbi
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The Social Animal
- The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
- Written by: David Brooks
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live....
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just winderfull
- By BCNigam on 28-10-24
Written by: David Brooks
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I Hate the Ivy League
- Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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From Malcolm Gladwell’s hit podcast Revisionist History comes a compendium about one of his greatest obsessions: education....
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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99% Perspiration
- A New Working History of the American Way of Life
- Written by: Adam Chandler
- Narrated by: Adam Chandler
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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99% Perspiration unpacks the misguided obsession with hard work that has come to define both the American dream and nightmare, offering insight into how we got here and hope for where we may go.
Written by: Adam Chandler
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To Govern the Globe
- World Orders and Catastrophic Change
- Written by: Alfred W. McCoy
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders....
Written by: Alfred W. McCoy
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Das Kapital
- Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie
- Written by: Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Johannes Steck, Gert Heidenreich
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Abridged
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Die Party ist vorbei. Der Crash ist da. Aus der Bankenkrise 2008 wurde über Nacht eine Krise der Weltwirtschaft...
Written by: Karl Marx
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What Went Wrong
- How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . and What Other Countries Got Right
- Written by: George R. Tyler
- Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglas
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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What Went Wrong describes exactly what went wrong with the American economy, how countries around the world have avoided these problems, and what we need to do to get back on the right track.
Written by: George R. Tyler
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Written by: Thorstein Veblen
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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The controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen here appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system....
Written by: Thorstein Veblen
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Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto
- Written by: Karl Marx, Frederich Engels
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 109 hrs and 11 mins
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This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto....
Written by: Karl Marx,
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Marriage Markets
- How Inequality is Remaking the American Family
- Written by: June Carbone, Naomi Cahn
- Narrated by: Elisa Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Marriage Markets cuts through the ideological and moralistic rhetoric that drives our current debate. It offers critical solutions for a problem that will haunt America for generations to come....
Written by: June Carbone,
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The Son Also Rises
- Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
- Written by: Gregory Clark
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe....
Written by: Gregory Clark
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Career and Family
- Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity
- Written by: Claudia Goldin
- Narrated by: Nancy Crane
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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This audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home....
Written by: Claudia Goldin
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Unhumans
- The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (And How to Crush Them)
- Written by: Jack Posobiec, Joshua Lisec
- Narrated by: Chase Macdonald
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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If you don’t understand communist revolutions, you aren’t ready for what’s coming. The old rules are over. The old order is over. Accusations are evidence. Activism means bigotry and hate. Criminals are allowed to roam free. Citizens are locked up.
Written by: Jack Posobiec,
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Discrimination and Disparities
- Written by: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics....
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Thomas Sowell's Brilliance is Unmatched
- By Pranav Hyagreev on 01-05-21
Written by: Thomas Sowell
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Hillbilly-Elegie
- Die Geschichte meiner Familie und einer Gesellschaft in der Krise
- Written by: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: Dominic Kolb
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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J. D. Vance erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie - eine Geschichte vom gescheiterten Aufstieg und von der Resignation einer ganzen Bevölkerungsschicht...
Written by: J. D. Vance
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Why Growth Matters
- How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
- Written by: Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s....
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A Good birds eye view
- By Bhargava Varma on 05-03-21
Written by: Jagdish Bhagwati,
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Viral Justice
- How We Grow the World We Want
- Written by: Ruha Benjamin
- Narrated by: Ruha Benjamin
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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This audiobook narrated by Ruha Benjamin offers an inspiring and uniquely personal vision of how we can build a more just world one small change at a time....
Written by: Ruha Benjamin
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The Rise of the Global Middle Class
- How the Search for the Good Life Can Change the World
- Written by: Homi Kharas
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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The Rise of the Global Middle Class traces the history of the middle class from its origins in Victorian England to present day India....
Written by: Homi Kharas
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Offshore
- Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
- Written by: Brooke Harrington
- Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore.
Written by: Brooke Harrington
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Elite Networks
- The Political Economy of Inequality
- Written by: Vuk Vukovic
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political power.
Written by: Vuk Vukovic
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Eighteen
- A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
- Written by: Alice Loxton
- Narrated by: Alice Loxton
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to – unless you’ve got the plague....
Written by: Alice Loxton
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Equality for Women = Prosperity for All
- The Disastrous Global Crisis of Gender Inequality
- Written by: Augusto Lopez-Claros, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani, Augusto Lopez-Claros, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Gender inequality in the fields of education, law, employment and wages lead to incalculable social and political disparities. These disparities in turn give rise to endemic poverty and violence, to individual frustration, social instability, and cultural disaffection....
Written by: Augusto Lopez-Claros,
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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- Written by: Kathryn Paige Harden
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....
Written by: Kathryn Paige Harden
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Equal Is Unfair
- America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
- Written by: Don Watkins, Yaron Brook
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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In this timely and thought-provoking work, Don Watkins and Yaron Brook reveal that almost everything we've been taught about inequality is wrong....
Written by: Don Watkins,
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Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
- Written by: Nathan Schneider
- Narrated by: Matt Amendt
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Since the financial crash of 2008, the cooperative movement has been coming back with renewed vigor. Everything for Everyone chronicles this economic and social revolution. Cooperative enterprise is poised to help us reclaim faith in our capacity for creative, powerful democracy....
Written by: Nathan Schneider
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Why You Won't Get Rich
- How Capitalism Broke Its Contract with Hard Work
- Written by: Robert Verkaik
- Narrated by: Chris Clarkson
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality....
Written by: Robert Verkaik
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Elite Capture
- How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)
- Written by: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smth
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
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A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends....
Written by: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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The Many-Headed Hydra
- Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
- Written by: Peter Linebaugh
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
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Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history....
Written by: Peter Linebaugh
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All the Money in the World
- How the Forbes 400 Make - and Spend - Their Fortunes
- Written by: Peter W. Bernstein
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge fund honchos, All the Money in the World gives us the lowdown....
Written by: Peter W. Bernstein
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The System
- Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
- Written by: Robert B. Reich
- Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....
Written by: Robert B. Reich
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Homestand
- Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
- Written by: Will Bardenwerper
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Batavia, New York—between Rochester and Buffalo—hosted its first professional baseball game in 1897. Despite decades of deindustrialization and evaporating middle-class jobs, the Batavia Muckdogs endured. When Major League Baseball cravenly shut them down in 2020—along with forty-one other minor league teams—the town fought back, reviving the Muckdogs as a summer league team comprised of college players.
Written by: Will Bardenwerper
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Care
- The Highest Stage of Capitalism
- Written by: Premilla Nadasen
- Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care seems simple enough. Care is about nurturing, feeding, nursing, assisting, and loving human beings. It is "the work that makes all other work possible." But as historian Premilla Nadasen argues, we have only begun to understand the massive role it plays in our lives and our economy.
Written by: Premilla Nadasen
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Elite Networks
- The Political Economy of Inequality
- Written by: Vuk Vukovic
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Elite networks are informal social networks between politicians in power and top executives of politically connected firms where personal ties and long-term interactions build trust and loyalty between involved actors. Both groups draw benefits from these interactions; politicians stay in power, and corporate executives extract rents for their firms. Firms reward connected executives with higher salaries thus widening the dispersion of earnings in society. In Elite Networks, Vuk Vukovic offers a different perspective on the long-run origins of inequality.
Written by: Vuk Vukovic
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What Went Wrong
- How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . and What Other Countries Got Right
- Written by: George R. Tyler
- Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglas
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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What Went Wrong describes exactly what went wrong with the American economy, how countries around the world have avoided these problems, and what we need to do to get back on the right track.
Written by: George R. Tyler
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Unjust Debts
- How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
- Written by: Melissa B. Jacoby
- Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too many—a safety valve designed to provide a mechanism for restarting lives and businesses when things go wrong financially. Legal scholar Melissa B. Jacoby shows how bankruptcy has also become an escape hatch for powerful individuals, corporations, and governments, contributing in unseen and poorly understood ways to race, gender, and class inequality in America.
Written by: Melissa B. Jacoby
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Poverty for Profit
- How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor
- Written by: Anne Kim
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Ironically, these enormous sums fuel the "corporate poverty complex," a vast web of hidden industries and entrenched private-sector interests that profit from the bureaucracies regulating the lives of the poor.
Written by: Anne Kim
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Homestand
- Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
- Written by: Will Bardenwerper
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Batavia, New York—between Rochester and Buffalo—hosted its first professional baseball game in 1897. Despite decades of deindustrialization and evaporating middle-class jobs, the Batavia Muckdogs endured. When Major League Baseball cravenly shut them down in 2020—along with forty-one other minor league teams—the town fought back, reviving the Muckdogs as a summer league team comprised of college players.
Written by: Will Bardenwerper
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Care
- The Highest Stage of Capitalism
- Written by: Premilla Nadasen
- Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care seems simple enough. Care is about nurturing, feeding, nursing, assisting, and loving human beings. It is "the work that makes all other work possible." But as historian Premilla Nadasen argues, we have only begun to understand the massive role it plays in our lives and our economy.
Written by: Premilla Nadasen
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Elite Networks
- The Political Economy of Inequality
- Written by: Vuk Vukovic
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Elite networks are informal social networks between politicians in power and top executives of politically connected firms where personal ties and long-term interactions build trust and loyalty between involved actors. Both groups draw benefits from these interactions; politicians stay in power, and corporate executives extract rents for their firms. Firms reward connected executives with higher salaries thus widening the dispersion of earnings in society. In Elite Networks, Vuk Vukovic offers a different perspective on the long-run origins of inequality.
Written by: Vuk Vukovic
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What Went Wrong
- How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . and What Other Countries Got Right
- Written by: George R. Tyler
- Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglas
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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What Went Wrong describes exactly what went wrong with the American economy, how countries around the world have avoided these problems, and what we need to do to get back on the right track.
Written by: George R. Tyler
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Unjust Debts
- How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
- Written by: Melissa B. Jacoby
- Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too many—a safety valve designed to provide a mechanism for restarting lives and businesses when things go wrong financially. Legal scholar Melissa B. Jacoby shows how bankruptcy has also become an escape hatch for powerful individuals, corporations, and governments, contributing in unseen and poorly understood ways to race, gender, and class inequality in America.
Written by: Melissa B. Jacoby
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Poverty for Profit
- How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor
- Written by: Anne Kim
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Ironically, these enormous sums fuel the "corporate poverty complex," a vast web of hidden industries and entrenched private-sector interests that profit from the bureaucracies regulating the lives of the poor.
Written by: Anne Kim
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The Plunder of Black America
- How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
- Written by: Calvin Schermerhorn
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Historian Calvin Schermerhorn traces four hundred years of Black dispossession and decapitalization—what Frederick Douglass called plunder—through the stories of families who have strived to earn and keep the fruits of their toils. Their struggles reveal that the ever-evolving strategies to strip Black income and wealth have been critical to sustaining a structure of racialized disadvantage. These accounts also tell of the quiet heroism of those who worked to overcome obstacles and defy the plunder.
Written by: Calvin Schermerhorn
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Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time
- Written by: Noam Chomsky, C. J. Polychroniou
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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He examines the crumbling of the social fabric and the fractures of the Biden era, including the halting steps toward a Green New Deal, the illegitimate authority of the Supreme Court, in particular its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the ongoing fallout from COVID-19. Chomsky also untangles the roots of the War in Ukraine, the diplomatic tensions among the United States, China, and Russia, and considers the need for climate action on an international scale.
Written by: Noam Chomsky,
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Wage-Labour and Capital and Value, Price, and Profit
- Written by: Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Yosef Kant
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price, and Profit by Karl Marx is a compelling introduction to Marxist economic theory, combining two of his most influential works. In Wage-Labour and Capital, Marx explores the relationship between labor and capital, illuminating how the commodification of labor under capitalism generates profit for capitalists at the expense of workers. In Value, Price, and Profit, Marx delves deeper into the mechanisms of capitalist economies, discussing the labor theory of value, the creation of surplus value, and the inherent exploitation of wage labor.
Written by: Karl Marx
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Poison Ivy
- How Elite Colleges Divide Us
- Written by: Evan Mandery
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Evan Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive "Ivy-plus" schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college degree continues to be the surest route to upward mobility, the inequality bred in our broken higher education system is now a principal driver of skyrocketing income inequality everywhere.
Written by: Evan Mandery
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99% Perspiration
- A New Working History of the American Way of Life
- Written by: Adam Chandler
- Narrated by: Adam Chandler
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” This phrase, arguably Thomas Edison’s most famous quote, has been drilled into the minds of generations of Americans. A fairly straightforward iteration of the idea that innovation, discovery, and ingenuity are the result of drive and grit above all, it has also come to represent much darker myths: that hard work always leads to success and that achievement is the product of individuals and not communities.
Written by: Adam Chandler
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The Hidden History of the American Dream
- The Demise of the Middle Class—and How to Rescue Our Future
- Written by: Thom Hartmann
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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The widening wealth gap is all too familiar to many Millennials and GenZers, especially when home ownership and the lack of debt seem like faraway fantasies. And it's no surprise when they only hold about 4.6% of the country's wealth while Boomers held 22% at around the same age. So what happened to the promise of the American Dream? In this entry of his celebrated Hidden History series, Thom Hartmann uncovers the rise of the American middle class through the progressive policies of FDR, through to its downfall with the increasing privatization and economic deregulations of the Reagan era.
Written by: Thom Hartmann