Politics & Economy audiobooks

Das Ende der Geduld (ungekürzt)

By: Kirsten Heisig

Narrated by: Dunja Hayali

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Mehr Konsequenz im Umgang mit jugendlichen Gewalttätern: Jugendliche Gewalttäter - sie werden immer brutaler und jünger. Viele Menschen meiden mittlerweile bestimmte Straßen, Plätze und Stadtviertel sowie nächtliche Fahrten in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln. Eltern und Lehrer fürchten die Gewalt in ihren Schulen, Polizei und Sozialarbeiter kommen... Read more

Беларусская революция. Начало

By: Татьяна Щитцова

Narrated by: Татьяна Щитцова

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Курс доктора философских наук, профессора Европейского гуманитарного университета, главного редактора журнала «Тоpos» Татьяны Щитцовой "Беларусская революция. Начало".Какие структурные предпосылки определяют ключевые черты и уникальность Беларусской революции?Курс поможет понять, что способствовало протестной мобилизации беларусского... Read more

La Constitución Sin Autoridad no es Traición

By: Lysander Spooner

Narrated by: Jorge Ramírez

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Lysander Spooner fue un filósofo político, abolicionista y escritor estadounidense del siglo XIX. Es conocido por su defensa del individualismo radical y su crítica al Estado y al sistema legal.Uno de los ensayos más conocidos de Spooner es "La Constitución sin Autoridad", en el cual argumenta que la Constitución de Estados Unidos no tiene una... Read more

The ANC Billionaires

By: Pieter du Toit

Narrated by: Joe Vaz

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

‘We were talking about the rise of Japan, about Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars … globalisation, technology. And they were still banging on about the Freedom Charter.’ – Anglo American’s Michael Spicer on the ANC in the mid-1980s In 1985, a group of white South African business leaders, led by Gavin Relly, the executive chairperson of Anglo American,... Read more

The Great Crashes

By: Linda Yueh

Narrated by: Linda Yueh

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in modern financial history.

Since the Wall Street Crash in 1929, financial meltdowns have repeatedly sent shockwaves through our world. From the currency crises of the 1980s and 1990s, to Japan's housing crash, the dot com boom and bust, the global financial... Read more

Not so Black and White

By: Kenan Malik

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars.

Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits most when anti-racists speak in racial terms?

The ‘culture wars' have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. This book takes the long view,... Read more

Sobre la producción de seguridad

By: Gustave de Molinari

Narrated by: Jorge Ramirez

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

En "Sobre la Producción de Seguridad", Molinari argumenta que la seguridad, al igual que cualquier otro bien o servicio, puede ser producida de manera eficiente y efectiva por el mercado libre, en lugar de ser un monopolio estatal. Sostiene que la competencia y la libre empresa pueden proporcionar servicios de seguridad superiores a los que... Read more

Carbon Technocracy

By: Victor Seow

Narrated by: Jim Lee

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Audiobook edition

A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine.

The coal-mining town of Fushun in China’s Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early twentieth century, this pit grew like a widening maw over the ensuing... Read more

Pisces Moon

By: Douglas Valentine

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire is a sweeping critical analysis of Western colonialism, its foundational beliefs in militarism, patriarchy, Christianity, and white supremacy; and its destructive impact on the nations of Southeast Asia and, ultimately, America.Valentine focuses on the “dark arts” of empire: the black bag of CIA covert... Read more

Everyday Utopia

By: Kristen R. Ghodsee

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal), “spirited and inspiring” (Jacobin) tour through the ages in search of the thinkers and communities that have dared to reimagine how we might better live our daily lives.

In the 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras—a man remembered today more for his theorem about right-angled triangles than... Read more

Seven Crashes

By: Harold James

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart



The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into "good" crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and "bad" crises,... Read more

Manhood

By: Josh Hawley

Narrated by: Josh Hawley

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Nationally best-selling author (The Tyranny of Big Tech), constitutional lawyer, and U.S. senator for the state of Missouri argues that the character of men and the male virtue that goes along with it is a necessary ingredient to a functioning society and a healthy, free republic.

A free society that despises manhood will not remain free.

The... Read more

Foolproof

By: Sander van der Linden

Narrated by: Sander van der Linden

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From fake news to conspiracy theories, from inflammatory memes to misleading headlines, misinformation has swiftly become the defining problem of our era. The crisis threatens the integrity of our democracies, our ability to cultivate trusting relationships, even our physical and psychological well-being—yet most attempts to combat it have... Read more

Carta Sobre la Tolerancia

By: John Locke

Narrated by: Jorge Ramirez

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

"Carta sobre la Tolerancia" (también conocida como "Carta acerca de la Tolerancia") fue publicada por primera vez en 1689 y aborda el tema de la tolerancia religiosa y la separación entre el poder civil y el poder religioso. En su obra, Locke argumenta a favor de la libertad de conciencia y la tolerancia hacia las diferentes creencias... Read more

Lo que se ve y lo que no se ve

By: Frédéric Bastiat

Narrated by: Jorge Ramírez

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"Lo que se ve y lo que no se ve" es una expresión utilizada por el economista francés Frédéric Bastiat para ilustrar un importante concepto económico. Bastiat escribió un ensayo titulado "Lo que se ve y lo que no se ve" en el que presenta su famoso principio.El principio básico detrás de "Lo que se ve y lo que no se ve" es que, en cualquier... Read more

The Shadow Docket

By: Stephen Vladeck

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed legal scholar exposes the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law—all behind closed doors  The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes “shadow... Read more

King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 20 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator!

This program is narrated by Dion Graham, narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won multiple Earphones and Audie Awards.

"Dion Graham superbly narrates this riveting audiobook, emulating the majestic cadence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, speeches. He... Read more

The New China Playbook

By: Keyu Jin

Narrated by: Jenapher Zheng

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Keyu Jin is a brilliant thinker.” —Tony Blair, former prime minster of the United Kingdom

A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy.

China's economy has been booming for decades now. A formidable and emerging power on the world stage, the China that most Americans picture is only a rough sketch,... Read more

Lost at Sea

By: John Wukovits

Narrated by: Nathan Agin

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The forgotten story of American war hero Eddie Rickenbacker's crash landing in the Pacific during World War II, and his incredible twenty-three-day crusade to keep his crew alive

In the darkest days of World War II, an unlikely civilian was sent to deliver a letter from Washington to General MacArthur in New Guinea. Eddie Rickenbacker was a... Read more

The Yellow Pad

By: Robert E. Rubin

Narrated by: Fred Melamed & Robert E. Rubin

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Rubin, former secretary of the Treasury and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, shares thoughts on decision-making developed over more than six decades in markets, business, government, and politics, and offers readers an astute and original guide for navigating uncertain times

In 1958, as a college sophomore, Robert Rubin took a class that... Read more

Lincoln's God

By: Joshua Zeitz

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Lincoln’s spiritual journey from spiritual skeptic to America's first evangelical Christian presidentbeliever—a conversion that changed both the Civil War and the practice of religion itself.

Abraham Lincoln, unlike most of his political brethren, kept organized Christianity at arm’s length. He never joined a church and only sometimes attended... Read more

Power and Progress

By: Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 15 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity--in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world.

Throughout history, technological change — whether it... Read more

Rangers, Scouts, and Raiders

By: Michael F. Dilley

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout history there has always been a need, in military forces, for special units. In the past, these units have usually been ad hoc formations that were disbanded after their mission was complete. It has only been since the early 1950s that such units have remained active, but even in recent times special purpose, special mission units... Read more

قلوبهم معنا وقنابلهم علينا

By: أحلام مستغانمي

Narrated by: عائشة خراط

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

«عندما تكون الديمقراطية هبة الاحتلال.. كيف لك أن تتعلم الحرية من جلادك؟!». بطريقةٍ سلسلة وكلماتٍ منتقاة بعناية شديدة، تكتب الكاتبة الجزائرية أحلام مستغانمي هذا الكتاب؛ إذ تستعرض آلام الوطن العربي بأسلوبٍ ساخر ومحزن، وتسرد حقائق تاريخية وسياسية في قالبٍ أدبي فريد لتخرج مقالات سياسية بنكهةٍ مختلفة. تتحدث الكاتبة عن أهم الأحداث السياسية في... Read more