Poverty Economics

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    • A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
    • Written by: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2012-01-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

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    • An International Perspective
    • Written by: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2015-09-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • One of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in the country argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality....

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    • Economic Possibilities for Our Time
    • Written by: Jeffrey Sachs
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hilgartner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2009-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists....

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • Written by: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2004-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • The Economic Classic with a New Foreword
    • Written by: Henry George, Ayrton Parham - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eli Snuggs
    • Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2022-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Capitalism has blessed the world with wealth and technological miracles. It has also cursed it with urban slums, powerless workers, and the vicious boom-and-bust economy. If only there were some way to fix the problems of capitalism and keep all its benefits....

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    • A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
    • Written by: George F. Gilder
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2012-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Hailed as "the guide to capitalism", the New York Times best seller Wealth and Poverty is one of the most influential economics books of all time....

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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • Written by: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2016-06-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 377 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • Written by: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2012-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
    • Written by: David S. Landes
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2021-07-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance....

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    • Written by: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • History, Measurement, and Policy
    • Written by: Martin Ravallion
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 32 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2024-02-27
    • Language: English
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    • The Economics of Poverty reviews critically past and present debates on poverty, spanning both rich and poor countries.

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    • Written by: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2020-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live....

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • Written by: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2016-03-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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    • Written by: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2012-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago....

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    • Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • Written by: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: Philip N. Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-13
    • Language: English
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    • In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us....

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    • Living on Almost Nothing in America
    • Written by: Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2015-09-01
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

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    • Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
    • Written by: Andrea Elliott
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2021-10-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter, weaving the story of her childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north....

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    • A Newfoundland Childhood
    • Written by: Wayne Johnston
    • Narrated by: Wayne Johnston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood.

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    • Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity
    • Written by: Mark Robert Rank
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2023-04-25
    • Language: English
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    • The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the twenty-first century—why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? One of the nation's leading authorities provides the answer....

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