Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Women Who Shaped Politics

By: Sophy Ridge

Narrated by: Julie Teal

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From royalty to suffragettes and from campaigners to contemporary rebels, Sky News Presenter Sophy Ridge explains the ways that women have changed the face of politics.

Sophy Ridge, presenter for Sky News, has uncovered the extraordinary stories of the women who have shaped British politics.

Never has the role of women in the political world ever... Read more

Cecil Beaton

By: Hugo Vickers

Narrated by: Hugo Vickers

Length: 27 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Cecil Beaton was one of Britain's greatest cultural icons - not just as a photographer capturing some of the most celebrated portraits of the 20th century but also as designer of the iconic sets and costumes for the films My Fair Lady and Gigi.

In 1980, Beaton personally chose Hugo Vickers to be his biographer, entrusting him with his diaries... Read more

Any Money Monday

By: Ivan F. Rivero

Narrated by: Dalan Decker

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Money. That which almost all of us chase. Whether we like it or not, that's why most of us set the alarm, hopefully only from Monday to Friday.And what if I tell you that the flow of money is infinite, and that only a few people open and close the tap at will? Yes, it may sound like a joke, a cheap trick of a parlor. In fact, it's not magic,... Read more

The Essential Natural Law (Essential Scholars)

By: Samuel Gregg

Narrated by: Charity Spencer

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Few ideas have been as influential in the development of moral, political, legal, and economic thought in the broad Western tradition as the idea of natural law. It is also true that the understanding of natural law and its influence on specific norms and institutions—rights, justice, private property, rule of law, limited government, etc.—is... Read more

Burden of Billions

By: Kunwar Vaibhaw Singh

Narrated by: Fallen Heights

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanity's worst curse- GREED -once again played its dice in a vicious move!You must have read so much about the immense death and destruction that the World War 1 caused. The dreadful fate it brought upon humanity. However, a much deeper and cruel assault was made by the forces of war on the common masses which is hardly ever told. The assault... Read more

I am Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Steven Jay Cohen, Kathleen Gati,...

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the 32nd hero in the New York Times bestselling biography series for ages 5 to 9.

Before Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the judge, she was a young Jewish girl growing up in Brooklyn, inspired by books, past female trailblazers, and her mother to make the world a better, more just place... Read more

Исследование и урегулирование международных конфликтов

By: Роза Турарбекова

Narrated by: Роза Турарбекова

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Курс Розы Турарбековой "Исследование и урегулирование международных конфликтов" на дистанционной платформе Летучего университетаНаша жизнь наполнена конфликтами и в определенном смысле движима ими. Переживая и разрешая внутриличностные и межличностные, внутригрупповые и межгрупповые конфликты, мы учимся формулировать и отстаивать свою позицию,... Read more

அமர வாழ்வு - Amara Vazhvu

By: Kalki

Narrated by: Shanti Somanathan

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

அமரர் கல்கியின் ரசிகர்களின் மனம் கவர்ந்த ஒரு சிறப்பு குறு நாவல்Cover Photo Credit : அரஸ் & Kalki magazine Read more

Descartes, John Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Voltaire, and Adam Smith

By: Days of History

Narrated by: James Smith

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you curious about the Enlightenment thinkers and their groundbreaking ideas?Do you want a comprehensive understanding of the philosophical, economic, and social transformations that took place in the 17th and 18th centuries?Then, you need to get your hands on this book!Inside, you'll find: A thorough exploration of the lives and ideas of six... Read more

The Alternative

By: Nick Romeo

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed in this provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy. 

Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century – widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world – many... Read more

My Name is Philippa

By: Philippa Ryder

Narrated by: Jackie Meloche

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In 'My Name is Philippa,' prepare to be moved by a powerful story of love, transformation, and resilience. Katherine E. Zappone explains, This is primarily a love story. Philippa Ryder's journey to embracing her true self as a transgender woman has left an indelible mark on Irish culture. Growing up as a boy in the 1960s, she felt out of place,... Read more

Escape from Overshoot

By: Peter A. Victor

Narrated by: Robert Lawrence

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Earth overshoot will end either by design or by disaster. Which future should we choose? Earth is in overshoot. The cumulative impact of 8 billion humans combined with the relentless pursuit of economic growth in the name of "progress" has stressed the planet beyond its limits. We must act now. Surveying economic alternatives and charting... Read more

La Loi

By: Frédéric Bastiat

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"La loi c'est la Justice Organisée."  Publié en 1850, ce pamphlet resté célèbre définit la loi comme une forme organisée visant à faire obstacle à l'injustice. Il y dénonce notamment les différentes formes de spoliations opérées sous couvert de la loi lorsque celle-ci est pervertie et détournée de sa vraie mission au profit d'une minorité,... Read more

கோடுகளும் கோலங்களும் - Kodugalum Kolangalum

By: Rajam Krishnan

Narrated by: Pushpalatha Parthiban

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

இந்த நாவல் ‘கோடுகளும் கோலங்களும்’, பயிர்த் தொழிலையும் அதில் ஈடுபடும் பெண்களின் வாழ்வையும் மையமாக்கி எழுதப்பட்டதுதான். ஆனால் இது முற்றிலும் வேறுபட்ட கோணத்தில் பார்வையைச் செலுத்தி எழுதப்பட்டது. எப்போதுமே, முரணான உண்மைகள் சிந்தையை நெருடும் போது அந்த நெருடலே அதை ஆராய வேண்டும் என்ற உந்துதலைத் தோற்றுவிக்கும். அதுவே படைப்புக்கும் ஆதாரமாகும்.
காலம்... Read more

We Need to Talk About Inflation

By: Stephen D. King

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers—and our abject failure to learn from history



From investors and monetary authorities to governments and policy makers, almost everyone had assumed inflation was dead and buried. But now people the world over are confronting a poisonous new... Read more

How I Changed The World: In My Own Unique Ways

By: Galeeb Kachra

Narrated by: Galeeb Kachra

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Galeeb Kachra truly is one of a kind. A unique combination of optimism, can-do determination and relentless energy, he has the wiliness and moral integrity required to shake up sclerotic systems and sweep away logjams. His detailed account of five projects that mattered intensely to him, which did their little bit to make the world a better... Read more

Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco: The History of Europe’s Other Fascist Dictators

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Arthur Armstrong

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s easy to forget how young Italy was when Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883. It is hard to conceive a territory with such a long and ancient history was once young and troubled with constant conflict and instability. Similar to Germany, Italy was unified in 1861, but contrary to its northern cousin, its previous history was one of... Read more

Hamilton

By: R.B. Bernstein

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804) was a key founding father—a politician, a constitutional thinker, and the nation’s first secretary of the treasury. He led the effort to write the brilliant defense and exposition of the Constitution, The Federalist, and later, as the nation’s first treasury secretary, he pioneered efforts to interpret the... Read more

How to Interpret the Constitution

By: Cass R. Sunstein

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a timely and powerful argument for rethinking how the U.S. Constitution is interpretedThe U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the right to abortion and is revisiting other fundamental questions today—about voting rights, affirmative action, gun laws, and much more. Once-arcane theories of... Read more

Secret Power

By: Stefania Maurizi

Narrated by: Ken Loach & Sarah Powell

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021**Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022**Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022*'I want to live in a society where secret power is accountable to the law and to public opinion for its atrocities, where it is the war... Read more

Earthopolis

By: Carl H. Nightingale

Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward

Length: 32 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennium tour of the world’s cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms... Read more

Domestic Extremist

By: Peachy Keenan

Narrated by: Peachy Keenan

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Spot-on, often satirical, always insightful, contributing editor of The American Mind and mother of a brood, Peachy Keenan argues that the only way we can save our families, ourselves, and the world—even California!—is by embracing our inner domestic extremists, and sweeping failed notions of third wave feminism and identity politics nonsense... Read more

The People's Justice

By: Amul Thapar

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Justice Clarence Thomas: The compassionate heart beneath the robe.

No Supreme Court justice has come from humbler circumstances than Clarence Thomas, yet critics denounce him as the "cruelest justice," a heartless traitor to his race who cynically sacrifices justice to ideology.

In this provocative new book, Judge Amul Thapar demolishes that... Read more

WAR YOURWAY TO SUCCESS

By: Renrick Palmer

Narrated by: Renrick Palmer

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

War Your Way To Success: A Veteran’s Journey From Loading Bombs To The StageFrom the desert sands to the stage, achieving dreams takes time, effort, and hard work.Each of us defines success differently. Whether we come from humble beginnings or not, the uphill climb into becoming ourselves is a unique journey. For Renrick Palmer discovered his... Read more