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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
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto
- Written by: Karl Marx, Frederich Engels
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 109 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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Career and Family
- Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity
- Written by: Claudia Goldin
- Narrated by: Nancy Crane
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
- Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times
- Written by: Dana Frank
- Narrated by: Jenna Rose Stein
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Four stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression.
Written by: Dana Frank
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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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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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Class War
- A Literary History
- Written by: Mark Steven
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat....
Written by: Mark Steven
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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
- Unabridged
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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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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Wanted: Toddler’s Personal Assistant
- How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me About the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America
- Written by: Stephanie Kiser
- Narrated by: Stephanie Kiser
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all . . .
Written by: Stephanie Kiser
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Six Degrees of Separation
- Written by: John Guare
- Narrated by: Chuma Hunter-Gault, Alan Alda, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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In a Fifth Avenue apartment high above Central Park, a weathy art dealer and his wife are trying to interest a moneyed friend in a $2 million investment when an unexpected young guest arrives...
Written by: John Guare
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This Is Europe
- The Way We Live Now
- Written by: Ben Judah
- Narrated by: Dan Connolly
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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A portrait of Europe as it has never been seen before, told through twenty extraordinary stories of the people who live and breathe it....
Written by: Ben Judah
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As Gods Among Men
- A History of the Rich in the West
- Written by: Guido Alfani
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
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Alfani argues that the position of the rich and super-rich in Western society has always been intrinsically fragile; their very presence has inspired social unease. In the Middle Ages, an excessive accumulation of wealth was considered sinful; the rich were expected not to appear to be wealthy....
Written by: Guido Alfani
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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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Living a Committed Life
- Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself
- Written by: Lynne Twist
- Narrated by: Lynne Twist
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Living a Committed Life demonstrates the power of dedication that goes beyond the self and teaches how to live a committed life that enables you to draw on resources and capacities from your most authentic self....
Written by: Lynne Twist
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Unequal
- How Extreme Inequality Is Damaging Democracy and What We Can Do About It
- Written by: David Buckham, Robyn Wilkinson, Christiaan Straeuli
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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The leading lights of the tech revolution – Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk – have been hailed as savants and saviours of the modern age. And yet they are at the forefront of wealth inequality not seen since the heyday of the robber barons in the late 19th century....
Written by: David Buckham,
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The Viral Underclass
- The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
- Written by: Steven W. Thrasher
- Narrated by: Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl, Steven W. Thrasher
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society....
Written by: Steven W. Thrasher
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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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Billionaire Wilderness
- The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
- Written by: Justin Farrell
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face....
Written by: Justin Farrell
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Kaste
- Die Ursprünge unseres Unbehagens
- Written by: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Maya Alban-Zapata
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
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Rassismus, Sexismus, Klassismus sind Sprachen der Unterdrückung. Die Grammatik, die ihnen unsichtbar zugrunde liegt, ist das System der Kaste. In...
Written by: Isabel Wilkerson
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Pedigree
- How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
- Written by: Lauren A. Rivera
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status. Yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs....
Written by: Lauren A. Rivera