Politics & Economy audiobooks

Capitalismo: el ideal desconocido

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

El capitalismo es un ideal moral En esta colección de ensayos, Ayn Rand y sus colegas definen una nueva visión del significado del capitalismo, su historia y sus bases filosóficas, y se proponen demoler muchos de los mitos que lo rodean. ¿Nos conduce irremediablemente el capitalismo a depresiones, monopolios, trabajo infantil o guerras? ¿Por qué... Read more

Meine Mutter hätte es Krieg genannt

By: Sara Giudice & Vera Politkowskaja

Narrated by: Heidi Jürgens

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Nach ihrer Ermordung am 7. Oktober 2006 wird die Journalistin Anna Politkowskaja auf einen Schlag zur weltweiten Symbolfigur für den Kampf um Gerechtigkeit und Meinungsfreiheit. Bis heute gilt sie als eine der wichtigsten Kritikerinnen von Putins Russland. In diesem Buch erzählt ihre Tochter zusammen mit der Journalistin Sara Giudice erstmals... Read more

Capitalismo progresista

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Narrated by: Carlos Olalla

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Un brillante y provocador manifiesto para salvar al capitalismo de sí mismo. Todos tenemos la sensación de que el sistema económico se inclina a favor de las grandes empresas. Unas pocas corporaciones dominan sectores enteros; la industria financiera regula la economía a su antojo; los gobiernos negocian acuerdos comerciales que en absoluto... Read more

The Conspiracy Tourist

By: Dom Joly

Narrated by: Dom Joly

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On his journeys he meets conspiracy theorists galore in destinations all over the world, some famous, some rather less so.

Conspiracy theories used to be fun, a bit of laugh. Did we really land on the moon? Was Paul McCartney cloned? Nowadays, however,... Read more

Salvador Allende. La izquierda chilena y la Unidad Popular

By: Daniel Mansuy

Narrated by: Axel Cornelli

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Mansuy analiza el legado político de Salvador Allende y la izquierda chilena desde la década de 1970 hasta la actualidad.
En su último libro, el filósofo y ensayista chileno Daniel Mansuy lleva a cabo un profundo análisis del legado político de Salvador Allende durante los mil días del gobierno de la Unidad Popular. A través de un ... Read more

Am Ende der gewohnten Ordnung - Warum wir Macht neu denken müssen (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Sophie Pornschlegel

Narrated by: Verena Wolfien

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Wer die Welt gestalten will, muss über Macht sprechen: Aufruf für ein neues Politikverständnis. Klima-Krise, Krieg, Rechtspopulismus - es ist anstrengend geworden, sich mit Politik zu beschäftigen. Die politischen Herausforderungen auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene sind so zahlreich, dass konstruktive Lösungen aus dem Blick geraten. Denn... Read more

Черный лебедь. Под знаком непредсказуемости

By: Нассим Николас Талеб

Narrated by: Дмитрий Креминский

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

За одно только последнее десятилетие человечество пережило ряд тяжелейших катастроф, потрясений и катаклизмов, не укладывающихся в рамки самых фантастических предсказаний. Выпускник Сорбонны и ньюйоркский финансовый гуру Нассим Талеб называет такие непрогнозируемые события Черными лебедями. Он убежден: именно они дают толчок как истории в целом,... Read more

Das Bill-Gates-Problem - Der Mythos vom wohltätigen Milliardär (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Tim Schwab

Narrated by: Frank Arnold

Length: 17 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Die erste umfassende kritische Darstellung von Bill Gates und seiner Stiftung Der Imagewechsel vom skrupellosen Kapitalisten und rücksichtslosen Microsoft-Chef zum wohltätigen Gutmenschen ist Bill Gates mit Bravour gelungen. Eine fundierte kritische Berichterstattung über den vermeintlich größten Philanthropen unserer Zeit und seine Stiftung,... Read more

Recabarren - Drama Político: Deliberación, Soberanía, Tragedia

By: Gabriel Salazar & Nelda Muray

Narrated by: La Dramática Nacional

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro, en registro teatral, apunta a "pensar" la historia política del pueblo chileno a partir de su memoria y, sobre todo, de su deliberación soberana. Está focalizado en el período 1911-1924, cuando, al abrirse un proceso constituyente de cambios radicales, las bases populares y ciudadanas activaron a alto nivel sus vínculos solidarios y... Read more

Bitcoin is Better

By: Daniel Hershberger

Narrated by: Daniel Hershberger

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you ready to see the truth?In a world where the working class struggles against the tide of unnatural inflation, this illuminating read unveils the power of bitcoin as nature's true currency. Journeying from Wall Street to the Himalayan mountains, Daniel exposes the sinister plot of the Keynesian Kings and explores how a simple, transparent,... Read more

On Great Fields

By: Ronald C. White

Narrated by: Ronald C. White

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero.

“A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in the preservation of the Union and therefore in the making... Read more

A Fabulous Failure

By: Nelson Lichtenstein & Judith Stein

Narrated by: Tom Campbell

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poised to enact a progressive transformation of the US economy, touching everything from health care to trade to labor relations. Yet by the time he left office, the nation's economic and social policies had instead lurched dramatically... Read more

Terror and Truth

By: Stephen A. King & Roger Davis Gatchet

Narrated by: Edward Herrman

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen A. King and Roger Davis Gatchet examine how Mississippi confronts its history of racial violence and injustice through civil rights tourism. Mississippi's civil rights memorials include a vast constellation of sites and experiences—from the humble Fannie Lou Hamer Museum in Ruleville to the expansive Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in... Read more

The Quiet Warrior

By: Thomas B. Buell

Narrated by: Chris Monteiro

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance. Spruance, victor of the battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea and commander of the Fifth Fleet in the invasions of the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Marianas, and Okinawa, is one of the towering figures in American naval history. Yet his reserved, cerebral... Read more

Food Politics

By: Robert Paarlberg

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today's global food landscape.



The third edition of Food Politics has been updated to reflect the latest developments and research on today's global food landscape, including the realities of food markets, farm production methods, food manufacturing, and dietary health... Read more

Bradley

By: Charles Whiting

Narrated by: Dallas Britt

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of fifty Bradley was a career officer who had never seen a day of action on the battlefield. Yet, by the end of the war, he had led American soldiers through some of the bloodiest fighting of World War Two—the final defeat of the Germans' Afrika Korps, the invasion of Sicily, and the historic Normandy invasion, before leading the... Read more

The Isolated Presidency

By: Jordan T. Cash

Narrated by: Joshua Saxon

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

How powerful is the President of the United States? For many scholars, this is a question that can be answered only by considering factors outside the office itself, such as the president's popularity, personal clout, political talents, or institutional relationships.



In The Isolated Presidency, Jordan T. Cash reframes this question to instead... Read more

A New Universal Dream

By: Steve Farrell

Narrated by: Asa Siegel

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1990s, Steve Farrell cofounded and led two high-growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley that were featured in the INC500 and spanned the United States and Europe.



A New Universal Dream is the inspiring story of Steve's journey from the pursuit of wealth and traditional ideas of success toward a more fulfilling life of caring... Read more

Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 31 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.  Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the... Read more

Depraved New World

By: John Crace

Narrated by: George Weightman

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

AS FEATURED IN WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2023 From bestselling author and beloved Guardiancolumnist John Crace comes a blisteringly hilarious tour through the whirlwind of post-Brexit Britain, from the ousting of Boris to the dawn of a new era . . . sort of. O brave new world, that has such people in't. Or not. William Shakespeare clearly had... Read more

Sparks

By: Ian Johnson

Narrated by: Ian Johnson

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The past is a battleground in many countries, but in China it is crucial to political power. In traditional China, dynasties rewrote history to justify their rule by proving that their predecessors were unworthy of holding power. Marxism gave this a modern gloss, describing history as an unstoppable force heading toward Communism's triumph. The... Read more

Game Changer

By: Jean-Manuel Izaret & Arnab Sinha

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The right pricing strategy can change the entire trajectory of a business, a market, and even society at large. To help you create your best pricing strategy efficiently and confidently, two leaders from BCG are introducing fresh perspectives on pricing that take you far beyond the realm of mind-numbing numbers.

In Game Changer, Jean-Manuel... Read more

Footsloggers

By: Peter Hart

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to the experiences of those men who were there. And often, there was nowhere more dangerous than on the ground.



In Footsloggers, Peter Hart reconstructs one infantry battalion's war in staggering detail. Based on his interviews with members of the 16th... Read more

The Dissident

By: David Herszenhorn

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin’s nemesis Alexey Navalny— lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience and anti-war crusader. THE DISSIDENT is the story of how... Read more