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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Peter Zeihan
Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
21 min
4.1
Slouching Towards Utopia
Slouching Towards Utopia
J. Bradford DeLong
An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
32 min
3.7
MegaThreats
MegaThreats
Nouriel Roubini
Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
16 min
3.8
Money Men
Money Men
Dan McCrum
A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
21 min
4.5
Cloudmoney
Cloudmoney
Brett Scott
Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
19 min
4.2
Two and Twenty
Two and Twenty
Sachin Khajuria
How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win
16 min
4.5
Earth for All
Earth for All
Sandrine Dixson-Decleve
A Survival Guide for Humanity
17 min
4.6
How the World Really Works
How the World Really Works
Vaclav Smil
The Science of Our Past, Present and Future
22 min
4.4
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The Truth About Giving Back
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Robert Kiyosaki's Book Recommendations
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Understanding Inflation & Recessions
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Conservative Economists & Thinkers
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Conservative Ideologies
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Blinks by Nobel Laureates in Economics
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This Is Universal Basic Income
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Inflation Matters
Inflation Matters
Pete Comley
Inflationary Wave Theory, Its Impact on Inflation Past and Present ... and the Deflation Yet to Come
19 min
4.4
Stop. Think. Invest.
Stop. Think. Invest.
Michael Bailey
​​A Behavioral Finance Framework for Optimizing Investment Portfolios
27 min
3.9
The Dying Citizen
The Dying Citizen
Victor Davis Hanson
How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
18 min
2.7
Shutdown
Shutdown
Adam Tooze
How Covid Shook the World's Economy
24 min
3.3
The Constitution of Liberty
The Constitution of Liberty
Friedrich A. Hayek
In Defense of Freedom and a Free Society
24 min
3.9
The Raging 2020s
The Raging 2020s
Alec Ross
Companies, Countries, People – and the Fight for Our Future
28 min
3.9
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Thomas Sowell
Uncovering popular fallacies in economics
19 min
3.4
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph Schumpeter
Essential analysis on where the world economy is headed
23 min
4.2
Mission Economy
Mission Economy
Mariana Mazzucato
A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
20 min
4.0
The Promise of Bitcoin
The Promise of Bitcoin
Bobby C. Lee
The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You
26 min
4.2
Kochland
Kochland
Christopher Leonard
The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
23 min
4.2
The Sum of Us
The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee
What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
30 min
4.1
Work Won't Love You Back
Work Won't Love You Back
Sarah Jaffe
How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
24 min
3.7
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
Nicole Perlroth
The Cyberweapons Arms Race
34 min
4.7
A Little History of Economics
A Little History of Economics
Niall Kishtainy
A whistle-stop tour of the major questions posed by economists through the centuries, from Aristotle to Thomas Piketty
26 min
4.5
COVID-19: The Great Reset
COVID-19: The Great Reset
Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret
A vision for what the post-Covid world could look like
24 min
3.6
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century
Erik Olin Wright
A pragmatic strategic guide to building an alternative economic system
35 min
4.1
A World Without Work
A World Without Work
Daniel Susskind
Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
23 min
4.1
Flash Crash
Flash Crash
Liam Vaughan
A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
18 min
4.6
Post Corona
Post Corona
Scott Galloway
From Crisis to Opportunity
19 min
4.1
The Economists’ Hour
The Economists’ Hour
Binyamin Appelbaum
False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
26 min
4.4
Licence to be Bad
Licence to be Bad
Jonathan Aldred
How Economics Corrupted Us
27 min
4.1
One Billion Americans
One Billion Americans
Matthew Yglesias
The Case for Thinking Bigger
24 min
4.2
Evil Geniuses
Evil Geniuses
Kurt Andersen
The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
26 min
3.9

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