Politics & Economy audiobooks

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By: Станіслаў Шушкевіч

Narrated by: Станіслаў Шушкевіч

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Cучасныя мэмуары. Чытае аўтар. Упершыню гучалі на хвалях Радыё Свабода з 02.08.2004 па 06.09.2004.
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Dogwhistles and Figleaves

By: Jennifer Mather Saul

Narrated by: Clare Staniforth

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

It is widely accepted that political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist and more accepting of wildly implausible conspiracy theories. Dogwhistles and Figleaves explores ways in which such changes—both of which defied previously settled norms of political speech—have been brought about. Jennifer Saul shows that two linguistic... Read more

Viral Deception

By: Robert Enochs

Narrated by: James Wilson

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you ready to uncover the truth behind the most disturbing global crises of our time? "Viral Deception: Unveiling COVID's Hidden Agenda" takes you on a riveting journey that may forever change your perception of the pandemic and the powers orchestrating it. Witness how a seemingly natural epidemic could be the smoke screen of this century,... Read more

Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle

By: Friedrich Hayek

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle" is a seminal work by Friedrich Hayek, originally published in 1929. In this book, Hayek presents his theory of the business cycle, which emphasizes the role of monetary factors in generating economic fluctuations. He argues that central bank policies, particularly the manipulation of interest rates and... Read more

Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?

By: Dorothy Hoobler

Narrated by: Danny Campbell, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Gibson Fr...

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An “irresistibly readable” (David Michaelis, New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor) collection of love letters by American presidents to their wives—and lovers—revealing an intimate and deeply personal side of our leaders.

Our presidents loom so large in history that we often forget they are human. Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love... Read more

The End of Race Politics

By: Coleman Hughes

Narrated by: Coleman Hughes

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called ‘anti-racist’ movement is driving us—ironically—toward a new kind of racism.

As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic... Read more

What Would Reagan Do?

By: Chris Christie

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America’s last great president?

A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?, Christie takes a fresh look at President Ronald Reagan’s character-driven political... Read more

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

By: Olivia Cheung & Steve Tsang

Narrated by: Rebecca Lam

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of the last half dozen years, China's supreme leader Xi Jinping has made extraordinary changes which have profound implications not only for the Chinese people but nations throughout the world. Given how swiftly and fundamentally China's relations with the rest of the world are changing under Xi's rule, it is imperative that we... Read more

Prices and Production

By: Friedrich Hayek

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Prices and Production" is a seminal work by Friedrich Hayek, originally published in 1931. In this book, Hayek delves into the Austrian theory of the business cycle, offering a detailed analysis of the role of prices and production in the economic cycle. He critiques the prevailing Keynesian view of the time and argues that fluctuations in the... Read more

Narcotopia

By: Patrick Winn

Narrated by: Patrick Winn

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping true story of an indigenous people running the world’s mightiest narco-state—and America’s struggle to thwart them. 
 
In Asia’s narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and China. Their 30,000-strong army, wielding missiles and attack... Read more

Killing Kennedy:

By: Jack Roth

Narrated by: Kyle Colton

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Startling new insights into the JFK assassinationIn Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences, author Jack Roth interviews researchers, scholars, eyewitnesses, and family members of those who were part of the tangled web of US intelligence operations associated with the Cold War and the circumstances surrounding the... Read more

Hit 'Em Where It Hurts

By: Rachel Bitecofer & Aaron Murphy

Narrated by: Rachel Bitecofer

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can win elections at one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our nation’s democracy

“Bitecofer hits hard against the GOP tactics of fear and anger and the Democrats’ status quo narratives around political engagement and winning elections.”—Michael Steele, former RNC... Read more

Litigating the Pandemic

By: Susan M. Sterett

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic would be problems in other climate-related disasters, too.



Many of these governance problems wound up in court. Businesses filed insurance claims... Read more

The Case for Open Borders

By: John Washington

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, over 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border. As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we... Read more

Medgar and Myrlie

By: Joy-Ann Reid

Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller“Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights work in the single most hostile and dangerous environment in America.”—from Medgar and MyrlieBy MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of... Read more

Blockchain Radicals

By: Joshua Dávila

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Blockchain Radicals uncovers the radical political potential of the blockchain, showing how it can be used by the left in the fight against capitalism.



Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by unscrupulous... Read more

Strange Burdens

By: Sugata Srinivasaraju

Narrated by: Derek Denzil

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Strange Burdens is not a biography but a book of political commentary. It examines and analyses Rahul Gandhi's ideas and leadership since he officially entered politics in March 2004. It journeys all the way to the conclusion of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar on 30 January 2023 and captures the dilemmas of hisdisqualification a couple of... Read more

The Stolen Wealth of Slavery

By: David Montero

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This groundbreaking book tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today, showing how our modern economy was built on the backs of enslaved Black people—and lays out a clear argument for reparations that shows exactly what was stolen, who stole it, and to whom it is owed.
 
In this timely, powerful, investigative... Read more

How Polarization Begets Polarization

By: Thomas L. Brunell, Bernard Grofman & Samuel Mer...

Narrated by: Thomas L. Brunell

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Extreme polarization in American politics is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members... Read more

Doing Business in Uncertain Times

By: Ramesh Nair

Narrated by: Karan Vats

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In the event of a crisis, everyone looks to the leaders for direction. Ramesh Nair is a veteran of steering organizations through the ebbs and flows of economic upheaval including the daunting onslaught of Covid-19 and earlier the debilitating 2008 economic downturn. ... Read more

Our Ancient Faith

By: Allen C. Guelzo

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today—by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize

*Winner of the 2024 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize*

"It is altogether fitting and proper that, with this meditation on democracy and its... Read more

On the Origins of Money

By: Carl Menger

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"On the Origins of Money" is a seminal work by Carl Menger, an Austrian economist, published in 1892. In this book, Menger explores the evolution and emergence of money through a detailed analysis of economic history and human behavior. The work is considered a foundational contribution to the Austrian School of Economics. Menger's "On the... Read more

Emplaced Resistances in Occupied Palestine

By: Suzanne H. Hammad

Narrated by: Muaz Dembinski, Suzanne H. Hammad, Malak Albakr...

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this deeply personal study, Hammad illuminates an agenda of place, meaning and resistance in territorial struggles through the telling of a less-heard story of how residents of Bil'in understand their world and their lives in the occupied Palestinian West Bank landscape. Taking a case study of a contested and divided Palestinian village... Read more

Liberalism In the Classical Tradition

By: Ludwig von Mises

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"Liberalism In the Classical Tradition" is a seminal work written by Ludwig von Mises, an Austrian economist and philosopher. Originally published in 1927 as "Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus" (Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis), it was later translated into English in 1962. The book provides a... Read more