Politics & Economy audiobooks

Deciphering the Shape of Economic Recovery

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

What do economists mean when they talk about the shape of a recession or recovery in terms of letters of the alphabet? Paul Solman talks with Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to understand how we graph a recession and its corresponding recovery. Then, leading economists weigh in on the shape they think the recovery... Read more

The Power to Persuade: Simplified Strategies for Influence

By: Jareth Connelly

Narrated by: Rob Williamson

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Power to Persuade: Simplified Strategies for Influence
⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐
Are you aiming to elevate your personal and professional life through the art of persuasion?
Looking for a comprehensive guide that encompasses all the strategies you need to master persuasion and transform your life?
Your search ends... Read more

No es cuento, es Historia II

By: Ines Quintero

Narrated by: Andrea Méndez

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

No es cuento, es historia es producto de la inteligencia de la historiadora Inés Quintero, que creó en las ondas hertzianas micros sobre el pasado de Venezuela. Ahora, Inés Quintero, fiel su público, ha recopilado en un segundo volumen, No es cuento, es historia II. Como ocurre con el primer tomo, aquí también se disfrutan momentos divertidos y... Read more

Prakashwata

By: Prakash Amte

Narrated by: Sachin Khedekar

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

डॉ. प्रकाश आमटे म्हणतात, "आदिवासींना मुख्य प्रवाहात आणावं, त्यांची पिळवणूक थांबावी आणि त्यांना माणूस म्हणून जगण्याची संधी मिळवून द्यावी, असं बाबांच्या मनात होतं. या कामाची जबाबदारी मी घेतली आणि सर्वांनी मिळून ती पार पाडली. बाबांचं हे स्वप्न हेमकलशात प्रत्यक्षात कसं उतरतंय, त्याची ही गोष्ट! म्हटली तर माझ्याही जीवनाची गोष्ट." ‌सामाजिक कार्यासाठी... Read more

Back in the Game

By: Steve Scalise

Narrated by: Steve Scalise

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The "gripping and inspiring" true story (Washington Examiner) of how Congressman Steve Scalise survived a political mass shooting and returned to Congress with the help of his friends, family, and faith.

On the morning of June 14, 2017, at a practice field for the annual Congressional Baseball Game, a man opened fire on the Republican team,... Read more

Ungoverning

By: Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton reveals how a concentrated attack on political institutions threatens to disable the essential workings of government In this unsettling book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum trace how ungoverning—the deliberate effort to dismantle the capacity of government to do its work—has become a malignant... Read more

Das kleine Handbuch des vernünftigen Investierens

By: John C. Bogle

Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie investiere ich intelligent und gleichzeitig möglichst günstig am Aktienmarkt? John Bogle hat die Antwort darauf in seinem Handbuch kompakt zusammengefasst. Das Zauberwort heißt: ETFs Exchange Traded Funds. Zum ersten Mal erklärt der Erfinder der ETFs anschaulich und für jeden verständlich, wie man sein Geld mit so wenig Aufwand und Kosten... Read more

The Jeffersonians

By: Kevin R. C. Gutzman

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 25 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Before the consecutive two-term administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, there had only been one other trio of its type: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe.

Kevin R. C. Gutzman's The Jeffersonians is a complete chronicle of the men who served as president from 1801 to 1825 and implemented the... Read more

Venezuela. Más allá de mentiras y mitos

By: Arantxa Tirado

Narrated by: María Laura Cassani

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Todos los días, por todos los medios de supuesta comunicación, tenemos un bombardeo incesante de noticias sobre Venezuela que nos presentan un panorama apocalíptico del país suramericano: «En Venezuela no hay comida, no hay pan, no hay luz, los hospitales no funcionan, se están muriendo de hambre, el país es un desastre…», «En Venezuela no hay... Read more

Do-Gooders

By: Mona Charen

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Mona Charen has a loyal following from her syndicated newspaper column (which runs in more than two hundred newspapers) and her many television and radio appearances. Her first book, Useful Idiots, was a six-week New York Times bestseller. Now she’s back, switching her focus from foreign policy to domestic issues.Unlike some conservatives who... Read more

Final Victory

By: Stanley Weintraub

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

When the 1944 presidential election campaign geared up late that spring, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already been in office longer than any other president. Sensing likely weakness, the Republicans mounted an energetic and expensive campaign, hitting hard at FDR's liberal domestic policies and the ongoing cost of World War II. Despite gravely... Read more

El panteón de los mitos

By: Sergio Aguayo Quezada

Narrated by: Sergio Bustos

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Polémica reinterpretación de la historia de México y del papel que Estados Unidos ha desempeñado en la permanencia del modelo político mexicano. En este libro, Sergio Aguayo nuevamente hace gala de su compromiso con la investigación profunda que siempre lo ha caracterizado; analiza los mitos y las verdades presentes en la relación entre México... Read more

Saddam Hussein

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Kelly Fraser

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Saddam Hussein, the sixth president of Iraq, held power from July 16, 1979, until his downfall on April 9, 2003. A central figure in Iraq's political history, Saddam was a founding member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, which advocated for a fusion of Arab nationalism and socialism, known as Ba'athism. The party's rise to power in Iraq was... Read more

Het derde Rijk

By: Alles over historia

Narrated by: Ilari Hoevenaars

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

De naam Adolf Hitler roept – zelfs bijna driekwart eeuw na de val van het Derde Rijk – nog veel afgrijzen, verachting en verwondering op. Hoe kon een mislukte schilder een heel volk inpalmen? Hoe kon hij van een onbeduidend partijtje met 55 leden een miljoenenbeweging maken? Deze uitgave geeft het antwoord. Hier lees je het verhaal over de zoon... Read more

O Oqual Cycle Em Um Nutshell: O Ritmo de 84 Anos da Civilização Humana (2024)

By: Amjad Farooq

Narrated by: Amjad Farooq

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Com grande parte do mundo tendo estado em um colapso precipitado nas últimas duas décadas e a continuar a atingir um novo mínimo a cada ano que passa sem fim à vista, perguntamo-nos se este é o novo normal ou se a loucura em curso acabará por acabar de modo a inaugurar um amanhecer mais brilhante.Fortunadamente, a Mãe Natureza nos abençoou com... Read more

Imperial Life in the Emerald City

By: Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq. In this bubble separated from wartime realities, the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competes with the distractions of a Little America—a half-dozen bars, a disco, a shopping... Read more

Bounty Hunter 4/3

By: Jason Delgado & Chris Martin

Narrated by: Jason Delgado

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A brand new recording read by the author.

The memoir of Jason Delgado, a US Marine scout sniper and MARSOC's first lead sniper instructor.

The fight for Jason Delgado's life and soul began when he was just a boy. He ultimately escaped the death and drugs of a crime-riddled Bronx by way of the United States Marine Corps. However, after earning his... Read more

The New Right

By: Michael Malice

Narrated by: Michael Malice

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The definitive firsthand account of the movement that permanently broke the American political consensus.

What do internet trolls, economic populists, white nationalists, techno-anarchists and Alex Jones have in common? Nothing, except for an unremitting hatred of evangelical progressivism and the so-called... Read more

The Allocator's Edge

By: Phil Huber

Narrated by: Warren Sandwell

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

We are entering a golden age of alternative investments.
Alternative asset classes including private equity, hedge funds, catastrophe reinsurance, real assets, non-traditional credit, alternative risk premia, digital assets, collectibles, and other novel assets are now available to investors and their advisors in a way that they never have been... Read more

The Partisan Gap

By: Laurel Elder

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices



From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, women around the country are running in—and winning—elections at an unprecedented rate. It appears that women are on a steady march toward equal representation across state legislatures and... Read more

Asian Waters

By: Humphrey Hawksley

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved conflicts and disputed territory. This is where authoritarian China is trying to rewrite international law and challenge the democratic values of the United States and its allies.... Read more

Doble crimen

By: Linda Loaiza & Luisa Kislinger

Narrated by: Lina Franco

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro es el testimonio de una mujer que fue torturada y esclavizada sexualmente durante 112 días, en 2001. Linda Loaiza fue rescatada y conoció otro horror: el de la impunidad institucional. Veinte años después entrega su testimonio. Se convierte -probablemente- en el reflejo de muchas mujeres venezolanas que padecieron tortura, esclavitud... Read more

Bomb Power

By: Garry Wills

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In Bomb Power, Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots—by dramatically increasing the power of the modern presidency and redefining the government as a national security state—in ways still felt today. A masterful reckoning from one of America's preeminent historians, Bomb Power... Read more

La psicología del dinero - Español (Latinoamérica)

By: Morgan Housel

Narrated by: Octavio Eguiluz

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

La riqueza no es fruto de nuestra inteligencia, talento o trabajo.  Es fruto de nuestro comportamiento. En cuestiones de dinero, lo que importa no es lo listo que seas sino cómo te comportas. Tendemos a pensar en la inversión o la gestión de las finanzas personales como una disciplina matemática, en la que los datos y las fórmulas nos dicen... Read more