Politics & Economy audiobooks

Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth

By: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Narrated by: Jeff Edward Dumas

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth was a treatise written by French Enlightenment philosopher and civil servant Anne Robert Jacques Turgot. "This Essay May be Considered as the Germ of the Treatise on The Wealth of Nations, written by the Celebrated Smith" - Condorcet's Life of Turgot. Read more

Report of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms

By: Nicholas F. Brady

Narrated by: Patrick McHaffie

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the close of trading on Tuesday, October 13, 1987, to the close of trading on October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ("Dow") fell 769 points or 31 percent. On October 19, 1987, alone, the Dow fell by 508 points or 22.6 percent. Since the early 1920's, only the drop of 12.8 percent in the Dow on October 28, 1929 and the fall of... Read more

Social Life in England 1750-1850

By: F. J. Foakes-Jackson

Narrated by: Pamela Nagami MD

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ranging and engaging talks, the author describes British life between 1750-1850. There are John Wesley's horseback peregrinations over thousands of miles of English countryside. Next, Foakes-Jackson introduces... Read more

God and the State

By: Mikhail Bakunin

Narrated by: Carl Manchester

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

God and the State (called by its author The Historical Sophisms of the Doctrinaire School of Communism) is an unfinished manuscript by the Russian anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin, published posthumously in 1882. The work criticises Christianity and the then-burgeoning technocracy movement from a materialist, anarchist and individualist... Read more

Was zu sagen ist...

By: Gerald Grosz

Narrated by: Gerald Grosz

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerald Grosz trifft den Nagel auf den Kopf! Seine messerscharfen, oft polemisch-witzigen Analysen auf YouTube wie auch seine scharfzüngigen und tiefschürfenden Kommentare in Zeitungen wie der Schweizer "Weltwoche" erreichen Millionen; seine ebenso unterhaltsamen wie grundsätzlichen Diskussionen mit Sebastian Bohrn Mena auf oe24.at sehen jede... Read more

The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Jon Ingram

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party, is an 1848 political document by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world's most... Read more

Epitaph (Elegie auf die klassische Arbeiterbewegung)

By: Robert Schediwy

Narrated by: Robert Schediwy

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Gewidmet den ehemaligen Angehörigen der Sozialistischen Arbeiterjugend der Zwanziger- und Dreißigerjahre des 20. Jahrhunderts, und denen, die als Junge diese Menschen in den Sechzigerjahren noch erlebten – und die heute auch nicht mehr jung sind. Read more

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Gord Mackenzie

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Resistance to Civil Government, called Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable... Read more

Личная жизнь

By: Наина Ельцина

Narrated by: Наина Ельцина & Людмила Телень

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"И хотя я никогда не ощущала себя женой президента, понимаю, что почти десять лет находилась рядом с человеком, который по должности отвечал за огромную и очень непростую страну на переломе эпох. Мне пришлось видеть многое из того, что имело важное значение для новой России, с очень близкого расстояния. Так уж получилось – моя личная жизнь... Read more

Alles gut?

By: Ines Allerheiligen

Narrated by: Ines Allerheiligen

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Alles gut? Diese Frage stellte er mir oft. Apo war in Deutschland! Er hatte es endlich geschafft! Nun hätte alles gut werden können! Ich hatte gedacht, alle könnten zur Ruhe kommen und positiv in die Zukunft schauen. Doch die deutsche Bürokratie und Apo`s Gefühlswelt sollten mir einen gewaltigen Strich durch meine Pläne machen. Auch hatte ich... Read more

The Prince

By: Paul Adams

Narrated by: Niccolò Machiavelli

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. The descriptions within The Prince have the general theme of accepting that ends of princes, such as glory, and indeed survival, can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends. Machiavelli needs... Read more

Sei der Hammer, nicht der Nagel

By: Marco Fitz

Narrated by: Marco Fitz

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Wenn du selbstständig bist, möchtest du etwas schaffen. Bildlich gesprochen möchtest du den Nagel in die Wand bekommen. Um das zu erreichen, kannst du entweder der Hammer oder der Nagel sein. Bist du der Nagel, lässt du dich von anderen in die Wand hämmern. Du bist nicht derjenige, der bestimmt, wie fest, in welchem Winkel und wie tief du in... Read more

Капитал. Том I

By: Карл Маркс

Narrated by: Станислав Федосов

Length: 30 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Карл МАРКС. КАПИТАЛ. Критика политической экономии ТОМ ПЕРВЫЙ. КНИГА I. Процесс производства капитала Предлагаем вашему вниманию "Капитал" – одну из самых знаменитых книг за всю историю книгопечатания, книгу, которая оказала огромное влияние на ход мировой истории. Главный труд Карла Маркса по политической экономии содержит подробный анализ... Read more

Abenteuer mit Gigi

By: Fabian Haedge

Narrated by: Amelie Plaas-Link

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Was sind Grundrechte? Wofür brauchen wir sie? Und wie beeinflussen sie unseren Alltag? Entdecke mit Mia und Ben die deutschen Grundrechte und begleite sie bei ihrem spannenden Abenteuer über Freundschaft und Zusammenhalt. An einem unbeschwerten Samstag führt ein schicksalhafter Zufall Ben und Mia mit der geheimnisvollen Adlerdame Gigi... Read more

The New World Order

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Brandon Johnson

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The New World Order is a non-fiction book written by H.G. Wells and was published by Secker & Warburg in January 1940. In The New World Order, Wells proposed a framework of international functionalism that could guide the world towards achieving world peace. To achieve these ends, Wells asserted that a socialist and scientifically planned... Read more

Ленин

By: Леонид Млечин

Narrated by: Леонид Млечин & Владимир Левашев

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Студия АРДИС предлагает вашему вниманию аудиокнигу известного журналиста, международного обозревателя, телеведущего Леонида Млечина "Ленин", открывающую авторский цикл, посвящённый людям и событиям последних ста лет отечественной истории. Владимир Ильич Ленин был, без сомнения, самым выдающимся соблазнителем России в ХХ столетии. Одно из... Read more

Сталин

By: Леонид Млечин

Narrated by: Леонид Млечин & Владимир Левашев

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Студия АРДИС предлагает вашему вниманию аудиокнигу известного журналиста, международного обозревателя, телеведущего Леонида Млечина "Сталин" из авторского цикла, посвящённого людям и событиям последних ста лет отечественной истории. Почему в нашем обществе не прекращаются споры о Сталине? Что в этом человеке было такого, что и сейчас заставляет... Read more

Хрущёв

By: Леонид Млечин

Narrated by: Леонид Млечин & Владимир Левашев

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Студия АРДИС предлагает вашему вниманию аудиокнигу известного журналиста, международного обозревателя, телеведущего Леонида Млечина "Хрущёв" из авторского цикла, посвящённого людям и событиям последних ста лет отечественной истории. Оставшийся в памяти необузданным бузотером, нелепо выглядевший, Никита Сергеевич Хрущёв недооценён отечественной... Read more

Capital and Interest

By: Frédéric Bastiat

Narrated by: Michele Fry

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense essays tried to battle the rise of socialist ideology after the French revolution, where provisional governments were rivaling each other for power. Of central concern was who should control the money. How is wealth created? How should it be divided amongst... Read more

Economics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Geoffrey Edwards

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Economics may not have been written by Aristotle. The author provides examples of methods used by the state to raise money including debt, currency devaluation, commodity controls, tariffs, sales tax, fines, violence and sacrilege. Read more

Eryxias

By: Plato

Narrated by: Geoffrey Edwards

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Eryxias is a Socratic dialogue attributed to Plato, but which is considered spurious. It is set in the Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios, and features Socrates in conversation with Critias, Eryxias, and Erasistratus. Eryxias may not have been written by Plato. The dialogue discusses whether wealth has value and what the aim of philosophy should be. Read more

Food Guide for War Service at Home

By: Katherine Blunt, Frances Swain & Florence Powde...

Narrated by: Maria Kasper

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The long war has brought hunger to Europe; some of her peoples stand constantly face to face with starvation. To meet all this great food need in Europe—and meeting it is an imperative military necessity—we must be very careful and economical in our food use here at home. We must eat less; we must waste nothing; we must equalize the distribution... Read more

Брежнев

By: Леонид Млечин

Narrated by: Леонид Млечин & Владимир Левашев

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Студия АРДИС предлагает вашему вниманию аудиокнигу известного журналиста, международного обозревателя, телеведущего Леонида Млечина "Брежнев" из авторского цикла, посвящённого людям и событиям последних ста лет отечественной истории. Личный архив генерального секретаря ЦК КПСС, председателя президиума Верховного Совета СССР, председателя Совета... Read more

Fundamentals of Prosperity

By: Roger Babson

Narrated by: Phil Chenevert

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

What these principles are and whence they come to us. "The fact is, we have become crazy over material things. We are looking only at the structure above ground. We are trying to get more smoke from the chimney. We are looking at space instead of service, at profits instead of volume. With our eyes focused on the structure above ground, we have... Read more