Politics & Economy audiobooks

Foolproof

By: Sander van der Linden

Narrated by: Sander van der Linden

Length: TBA

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

Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy

By: unknown

Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan & Diontae Black

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Would our world be a better place if some of us were benders? Can Katara repair the world through care? Is Toph a disability pride icon? What does it mean for Zuko to be bad at being good? Can we tell whether uncle Iroh is a fool or a sage?



On the face of it, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a story about a lone superhero. However, saving the world... Read more

The Power of Hope

By: Carol Graham

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton reveals why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critical metrics that predict future life outcomes. In this timely... Read more

Capitalist Punishment

By: Vivek Ramaswamy

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A Wall Street cartel has quietly seized control of the American economy, and they are forcing governments and businesses to bow down to their political agenda—using your money to do it.Three Wall Street firms have quietly amassed more money than Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Andrew Carnegie, and John Rockefeller combined. But the money isn’t even... Read more

Pandora's Gamble

By: Alison Young

Narrated by: Pamela Almand

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some elite scientists don’t want the public to entertain: Did the COVID-19 pandemic start with a lab leak in Wuhan, China?
 
This is an obvious question. Yet there’s been an extraordinary effort by government officials in China, as well as leading... Read more

Lessons from the Covid War

By: Covid Crisis Group

Narrated by: Derek Shetterly

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times
 
Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a depressing cycle of panic followed... Read more

Del Origen del Dinero

By: Carl Menger

Narrated by: Jorge Ramirez

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Menger, considerado uno de los fundadores de la escuela austriaca de economía, escribió un famoso ensayo titulado "Sobre el origen del dinero", publicado en 1892. En este ensayo, Menger argumenta que el dinero no fue inventado por los gobiernos o los mercados, sino que surgió espontáneamente de las interacciones económicas entre las... Read more

Escape from Overshoot

By: Peter A. Victor

Narrated by: Robert Lawrence

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Earth overshoot will end either by design or by disaster. Which future should we choose? Earth is in overshoot. The cumulative impact of 8 billion humans combined with the relentless pursuit of economic growth in the name of "progress" has stressed the planet beyond its limits. We must act now. Surveying economic alternatives and charting... Read more

Pertinax

By: Simon Elliott

Narrated by: Christopher Ashman

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the very top through hard work, grit and determination.



Born in AD 126, Pertinax made a late career change from working as a grammar teacher to a position in the army. As he moved up the ranks and further along the... Read more

Cold Peace

By: Michael W. Doyle

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold War.



With a historian's eye and a theorist's ingenuity, Michael Doyle, whose writings on liberal peace have revolutionized modern statesmanship, cogently assesses the tectonic shifts threatening a global order that has held for more than seventy years. As tensions among China, Russia,... Read more

The Secret Gate

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible true story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan—and how a brave Afghan mother and a compassionate American officer engineered a daring escape—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours

“Reads like a thriller . . . The Secret Gate is a fast-paced escape narrative,... Read more

The Future is Degrowth

By: Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter & Aaron Vansi...

Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with... Read more

The Everyday Feminist

By: Latanya Mapp Frett

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin & Latanya Mapp Frett

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An invigorating exploration of impactful feminist movements and strategies for replicating their success

In The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact-Driving Movements We Need Now More than Ever, accomplished feminist activist and executive Latanya Mapp Frett delivers a powerful and practical exploration of the factors that make... Read more

Age of Emergency

By: Erik Linstrum

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. Although this period has conventionally been dubbed "postwar," it was punctuated by a succession of hard-fought, long-running conflicts that were geographically diffuse, morally ambiguous, and impervious to neat... Read more

Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach

By: Kristie Macrakis

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control spies' minds by chemical means. But these weren't human spies. Instead, the United States expanded its reach around the globe... Read more

The Drive for Dollars

By: Eric A. Morris, Jeffrey R. Brown & Brian D. Taylor

Narrated by: Derek Dysart

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the interplay between finance, freeways, and urban form in the twentieth century and their enduring impact on American cities and neighborhoods in the twenty-first.



American cities are distinct from almost all others in the degree to which freeways and freeway travel dominate urban landscapes. In The Drive for Dollars, Brian D.... Read more

Birth

By: Rebecca Grant

Narrated by: Marisa Blake, Emana Rachelle, Dara Rosenberg & ...

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“An important book...Grant is a good storyteller, subtle and compassionate.” —The New York Times Book Review

In the tradition of Random Family and Evicted, a gripping blend of rigorous, intimate on-the-ground reporting and deep social history of reproductive health that follows three first-time mothers as they experience pregnancy and childbirth... Read more

Grant at 200

By: Chris Mackowski & Frank J. Scaturro

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Ulysses S. Grant stood at the center of the American Civil War maelstrom. The Ohio native answered his nation's call to service and finished the war as a lieutenant general in command of the United States Army. Four years later, he ascended to the presidency to better secure the peace he had helped win on the battlefield. Despite his major... Read more

Nuestro Enemigo El Estado

By: Albert Jay Nock

Narrated by: Sebastian Borjas

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Nuestro enemigo el Estado" es un ensayo escrito por Albert Jay Nock en 1935. En él, el autor aborda la creciente influencia del Estado en la vida de los individuos y argumenta que esta influencia es perjudicial para la libertad y el bienestar humano.Nock critica el papel del Estado como un ente paternalista que se encarga de tomar decisiones en... Read more

Social Security Disability Revealed

By: Spencer Bishins

Narrated by: Spencer Bishins

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A former Social Security Administration (SSA) attorney goes behind the scenes to show you why it’s so difficult to win a Social Security Disability case. Working as an Attorney Advisor for over 10 years, the author drafted and reviewed thousands of disability decisions. During this time, he learned why the system is stacked against the claimant... Read more

La Mano Invisible

By: Adam Smith

Narrated by: Sebastian Borjas

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Adam Smith fue un economista y filósofo escocés que vivió en el siglo XVIII y es conocido por sus ideas sobre el capitalismo y la libre empresa. Una de sus ideas más famosas es la "mano invisible", que se refiere a un mecanismo invisible que guía el mercado hacia un equilibrio óptimo, sin necesidad de regulaciones gubernamentales.Según Smith,... Read more

Burden of Billions

By: Kunwar Vaibhaw Singh

Narrated by: Fallen Heights

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanity's worst curse- GREED -once again played its dice in a vicious move!You must have read so much about the immense death and destruction that the World War 1 caused. The dreadful fate it brought upon humanity. However, a much deeper and cruel assault was made by the forces of war on the common masses which is hardly ever told. The assault... Read more

Cuidados y Beneficios De La Inflación

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

La inflación, en economía, es el aumento generalizado y sostenido de los precios de los bienes y servicios existentes en el mercado durante un determinado período de tiempo. Cuando el nivel general de precios sube, con cada unidad de moneda se adquieren menos bienes y servicios. Es decir, que la inflación refleja la disminución del poder... Read more

Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx & Freidrich Engels

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 109 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as-well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto. One of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. It rapidly acquired readership throughout the world when published,... Read more