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Mauro F. Guillén
How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
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4.2
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
Rebecca Henderson
How Business Can Save the World
25 min
3.9
Angrynomics
Angrynomics
Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth
How we can rearrange our economies to produce more equality and less anger
19 min
4.1
The Value of Everything
The Value of Everything
Mariana Mazzucato
Making and Taking in the Global Economy
25 min
4.4
Private Government
Private Government
Elizabeth Anderson
How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
29 min
4.1
The Deficit Myth
The Deficit Myth
Stephanie Kelton
Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
25 min
3.8
Moneyland
Moneyland
Oliver Bullough
Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back
19 min
4.4
Hawai'i
Hawai'i
Sumner La Croix
Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change
24 min
4.3

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The Mind's Mirror
Gregory Mone
Risk and Reward in the Age of AI
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The Truth About Immigration
The Truth About Immigration
Zeke Hernandez
Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
19 min
The Shortest History of Economics
The Shortest History of Economics
Andrew Leigh
Explore Key Economic Moments and Their Impact on Today’s World
18 min
4.2
The Wages of Destruction
The Wages of Destruction
Adam Tooze
The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
20 min
In This Economy?
In This Economy?
Kyla Scanlon
How Money & Markets Really Work
16 min
4.3
Grow the Pie
Grow the Pie
Alex Edmans
How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit
21 min
4.4
Free and Equal
Free and Equal
Daniel Chandler
A Manifesto for a Just Society
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3.7
The Algebra of Wealth
The Algebra of Wealth
Scott Galloway
A Simple Formula for Financial Security
17 min
3.9
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For a New Liberty
For a New Liberty
Murray N. Rothbard
The Libertarian Manifesto
27 min
4.2
Austerity
Austerity
Alberto Alesina
When It Works and When It Doesn't
21 min
3.9
Narrative Economics
Narrative Economics
Robert J. Shiller
How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
25 min
4.3
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
Yanis Varoufakis
A Brief History of Capitalism
26 min
4.4
Dark Towers
Dark Towers
David Enrich
Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
31 min
4.4
Winners Take All
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
22 min
4.1
Americana
Americana
Bhu Srinivasan
A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
37 min
4.3
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
27 min
4.5
Good Economics for Hard Times
Good Economics for Hard Times
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
30 min
4.0
The War on Normal People
The War on Normal People
Andrew Yang
The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
24 min
4.5
This Could Be Our Future
This Could Be Our Future
Yancey Strickler
A Manifesto for a More Generous World
27 min
4.4
An Economist Walks into a Brothel
An Economist Walks into a Brothel
Allison Schrager
And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
19 min
4.0
How to Do Nothing
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
Resisting the Attention Economy
19 min
4.3
Amazon
Amazon
Natalie Berg & Miya Knights
How the World’s Most Relentless Retailer will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce
24 min
4.4
Blowout
Blowout
Rachel Maddow
Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
27 min
4.2
The AI Economy
The AI Economy
Roger Bootle
Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age
22 min
4.0
The Future of Capitalism
The Future of Capitalism
Paul Collier
Facing the New Anxieties
20 min
3.9
Utopia for Realists
Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman
And How We Can Get There
26 min
4.4
Capitalism and Freedom
Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman
The definitive statement of Friedman's immensely influential economic philosophy
19 min
4.4
The Third Pillar
The Third Pillar
Raghuram Rajan
The Revival of Community in a Polarized World
26 min
4.5
Crashed
Crashed
Adam Tooze
How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
29 min
4.4
The Curse of Bigness
The Curse of Bigness
Tim Wu
Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
33 min
4.6
The Square and the Tower
The Square and the Tower
Niall Ferguson
Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
42 min
4.3
The Bitcoin Standard
The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous
The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
27 min
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