American Economic History

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • De: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrado por: Janina Edwards
    • Duración: 12 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-24-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 113 calificaciones
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • De: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrado por: Karen White
    • Duración: 21 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-05-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 calificaciones
    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

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    • Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
    • De: William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
    • Narrado por: JD Jackson
    • Duración: 14 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-20-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 253 calificaciones
    • Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically....

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    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • De: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrado por: Robertson Dean
    • Duración: 17 h y 46 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-09-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,133 calificaciones
    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries
    • De: James Ledbetter
    • Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
    • Duración: 14 h y 21 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-13-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 calificaciones
    • Gold has influenced American monetary policy and has exerted an irrational influence on the national psyche for centuries....

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    • How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
    • De: Christopher Leonard
    • Narrado por: Jacques Roy
    • Duración: 10 h y 19 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-11-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 975 calificaciones
    • If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press....

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    • The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
    • De: Bethany McLean
    • Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Duración: 22 h y 30 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-11-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,014 calificaciones
    • The definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters....

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    • An American History
    • De: Lawrence B. Glickman
    • Narrado por: Rick Adamson
    • Duración: 12 h y 39 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-20-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 calificaciones
    • An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics....

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    • The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
    • De: Justene Hill Edwards
    • Narrado por: Diana Blue
    • Duración: 10 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-22-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 calificaciones
    • Historian Justene Hill Edwards unearths a major turning point in American history in this comprehensive account of the Freedman's Bank and its depositors.

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    • The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
    • De: H. W. Brands
    • Narrado por: Robertson Dean
    • Duración: 23 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-12-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 285 calificaciones
    • In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power....

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    • An American History
    • De: Tom Nicholas
    • Narrado por: Bob Souer
    • Duración: 13 h
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-03-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 calificaciones
    • A major exploration of venture financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation....

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    • How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
    • De: Hannah Farber
    • Narrado por: Linda Jones
    • Duración: 10 h y 59 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-11-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.

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    • The Story of the American Dream
    • De: David Leonhardt
    • Narrado por: Dan John Miller
    • Duración: 15 h y 52 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-24-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 calificaciones
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times’s “The Morning” newsletter provides a clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the death of the American Dream....

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    • A New Working History of the American Way of Life
    • De: Adam Chandler
    • Narrado por: Adam Chandler
    • Duración: 8 h y 30 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-07-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 calificaciones
    • 99% Perspiration unpacks the misguided obsession with hard work that has come to define both the American dream and nightmare, offering insight into how we got here and hope for where we may go.

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    • The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
    • De: T.J. Stiles
    • Narrado por: Mark Deakins
    • Duración: 28 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-21-09
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,461 calificaciones
    • A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon....

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    • Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
    • De: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Duración: 15 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-26-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,075 calificaciones
    • Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....

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    • An American Life
    • De: David Cannadine
    • Narrado por: John H. Mayer
    • Duración: 35 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-03-06
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 calificaciones
    • A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon....

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    • De: Peter Carlson
    • Narrado por: Danny Campbell
    • Duración: 10 h y 9 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-28-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 calificaciones
    • it on foot, much of it through snow, in 26 days.

      This is a marvelous, surreal voyage through the cold mountains, dark prisons, and mysterious bands of misfits living in the shadows of the Civil War....

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    • The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
    • De: Gregory Makoff, Lee C. Buchheit - foreword
    • Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Duración: 12 h y 46 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-14-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 calificaciones
    • Default is the riveting story of Argentina's sovereign debt drama, which reveals the obscure inner workings of sovereign debt restructuring. This detailed case study describes the intense fight over the role of the IMF in Argentina's 2005 debt restructuring.

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    • The Untold History of American Labor
    • De: Kim Kelly
    • Narrado por: Em Grosland
    • Duración: 12 h y 11 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-26-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 calificaciones
    • Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific....

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