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The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- By: Chen Jian, Odd Arne Westad
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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Performance7
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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world.
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fascinating period expertly told
- By Little Chandler on 28-11-24
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The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 29-10-24
- Language: English
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Globalists
- The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
- By: Quinn Slobodian
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance44
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In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, author Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level.
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Gets there in the end
- By Frank Amin on 29-07-22
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Globalists
- The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-06-18
- Language: English
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Can’t We Just Print More Money?
- Economics in Ten Simple Questions
- By: Rupal Patel, The Bank of England, Jack Meaning
- Narrated by: Rupal Patel, Jack Meaning
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance78
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Story77
Brought to you by Penguin. Why are all my clothes made in Asia? How come I'm so much richer than my great-great grandma? And what even is money? Whether you're buying lunch, looking for a job, or applying for a mortgage, the thing we call 'the economy' is going to set the terms. A pity, then...
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good book let down by narration
- By Michael Sinclair on 12-07-22
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Can’t We Just Print More Money?
- Economics in Ten Simple Questions
- Narrated by: Rupal Patel, Jack Meaning
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 19-05-22
- Language: English
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Power Failure
- The Rise and Fall of General Electric
- By: William D. Cohan
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 28 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance36
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Brought to you by Penguin. A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporation Perhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing storied leaders and...
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Enlightenment
- By Brian B. on 18-10-24
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Power Failure
- The Rise and Fall of General Electric
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 28 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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The Corporation That Changed the World
- How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
- By: Nick Robins
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall125
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Performance103
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Story103
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles, and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today.
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Fascinating
- By Jim on 06-06-17
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The Corporation That Changed the World
- How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 17-05-17
- Language: English
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The History of Money
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall100
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Performance77
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Story78
From primitive man's cowrie shells to the electronic cash card, from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange, The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives--economic, political, and personal.
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Journalistic account entertaining delivered
- By Horley, G on 27-02-21
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The History of Money
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 16-02-10
- Language: English
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall718
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Performance606
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Story592
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns.
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The most talked about non-fiction book this year
- By David on 08-08-14
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 22-05-14
- Language: English
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Slavery's Capitalism
- A New History of American Economic Development
- By: Sven Beckert - editor, Seth Rockman - editor
- Narrated by: William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance22
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During the 19th century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.
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Eye-opening and enlightening
- By Shirley on 13-03-23
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Slavery's Capitalism
- A New History of American Economic Development
- Narrated by: William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, Pam Ward, Ron Butler
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 07-03-17
- Language: English
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Plagues upon the Earth
- Disease and the Course of Human History
- By: Kyle Harper
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance31
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Story31
Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by technological progress. He shows that the story of disease is entangled with the history of slavery, colonialism, and capitalism, and reveals the enduring effects of historical plagues all around us, in patterns of wealth, health, power, and inequality.
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Fascinating.
- By Sigrin on 26-03-25
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Plagues upon the Earth
- Disease and the Course of Human History
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 15-12-21
- Language: English
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Surviving Rome
- The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent
- By: Kim Bowes
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor. Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokles. She reveals how the economic changes of the period created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day laborers and slaves.
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An deep dive into what Ancient Rome was really like for the majority who lived there!
- By Max on 09-12-25
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Surviving Rome
- The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-11-25
- Language: English
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This Time Is Different
- Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
- By: Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall69
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Performance43
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Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing - and recovering -their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different" - claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. This book proves that premise wrong.
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Not for the general reader
- By James on 20-11-11
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This Time Is Different
- Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 09-11-09
- Language: English
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The Ascent of Money
- By: Niall Ferguson
- Narrated by: Hugh Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall640
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Performance502
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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential back-story behind all history.
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Half worth it
- By Anonymous on 11-07-20
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The Ascent of Money
- Narrated by: Hugh Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-09-09
- Language: English
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The Big Short
- Inside the Doomsday Machine
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Michael Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance18
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Brought to you by Penguin. THE OUTRAGEOUS NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW AN OSCAR- AND BAFTA-WINNING FILM From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller, tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that...
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Great recollection of 2008 Wall Street events.
- By Alexandru - Nicolae Zotescu on 23-02-26
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The Big Short
- Inside the Doomsday Machine
- Narrated by: Michael Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 14-10-25
- Language: English
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Tower of Basel
- The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
- By: Adam LeBor
- Narrated by: John Mawson
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world's most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and in-depth interviews with key decision-makers -- including Paul Volcker, the former chairman of...
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How much legacy and monoculture shapes modern world
- By Anca on 12-03-26
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Tower of Basel
- The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
- Narrated by: John Mawson
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- By: Zachary D. Carter
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall95
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Performance74
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas “A timely, lucid and compelling...
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Brilliant, excoriating, fascinating, devastating
- By Fletcher Christian on 07-07-20
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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China's Economy
- What Everyone Needs to Know®
- By: Arthur R. Kroeber
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance47
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China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America.
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Interested and detailed
- By Charles Robinson on 06-10-19
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China's Economy
- What Everyone Needs to Know®
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 24-07-18
- Language: English
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- By: Max Weber
- Narrated by: Monroe Clark McBride
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance30
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Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day powerful and fascinating. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the Protestant ethic made possible and encouraged the development of capitalism in the West.
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This is an academic essay
- By Bluesview on 22-05-18
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Monroe Clark McBride
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 28-08-17
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Gold
- Myth, Money, Politics and Power
- By: Dominic Frisby
- Narrated by: Dominic Frisby
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance62
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Brought to you by Penguin. Gold (noun): A precious, yellow metal, prized for its beauty. Inert, immune to corrosion, highly malleable though with little utility. Seen as pure wealth. The definitive biography of the metal that has shaped our world – and may yet determine its fate. The Secret...
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Interesting but partisan
- By J. Dixon on 03-10-25
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The Secret History of Gold
- Myth, Money, Politics and Power
- Narrated by: Dominic Frisby
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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The Land Trap
- A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
- By: Mike Bird
- Narrated by: Mike Bird
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD "One of those books that changes the way you see the world. Gripping, urgent, important." ED CONWAY "This wonderful book is as welcome as it is overdue ... shines a much-needed light on this essential topic." RORY...
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A fascinating and detailed account of Land
- By Clarke Pitts on 10-02-26
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The Land Trap
- A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
- Narrated by: Mike Bird
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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The Invisible Doctrine
- The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)
- By: George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall261
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Performance243
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Brought to you by Penguin. We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; even the planet we inhabit – the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most...
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I was blind but now I see!!!
- By Amazon Customer on 18-03-26
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The Invisible Doctrine
- The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-05-24
- Language: English
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