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Title: Maxed Out

Subtitle: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and the Era of Predatory Lenders

Author: James D. Scurlock

Narrator: James D. Scurlock

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-07

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

Another profitable group can be found in and around our nation's universities, where credit-card issuers are forming "partnerships" with colleges: paying them millions of dollars for access to their students' personal information and essentially setting kids up for financial ruin.

Maxed Out examines an industry that thrives on making people fail, then pursues them relentlessly to death's door. The industry's frontier is called "debt buying" and it's a veritable Wild West in which young men are hoping to make vast fortunes off of the misery and misfortune of others. Their tool is a vast trove of personal information that can be bought for next to nothing - as well as intimidation, guilt, and fear.

By turns hilarious, fascinating, and deeply disturbing, Maxed Out is ultimately one observer's answer to the question, "Why can't we get out of debt?"

Critic Reviews:

"Scurlock deserves credit (no pun intended) for opening more eyes to this dire issue." (Publishers Weekly)

"Can it be fun to read about people's lives being ruined by predatory lenders? Yes, oddly enough, if James Scurlock is doing the writing. He's as fiendishly clever as the banks and credit-card companies he goes after, which is saying a lot. After reading Maxed Out, you're going to want to shed your creditors and reacquaint yourself with the concept of cash." (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch)

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Title: First Principles

Subtitle: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity

Author: John B. Taylor

Narrator: Ken Maxon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

Leading economist John B. Taylors straightforward plan to rebuild Americas economic future by returning to its founding principles.

Americas economic future is uncertain. Mired in a long crippling economic slump and hamstrung by bitter partisan debate over the growing debt and the role of government, the nation faces substantial challenges, exacerbated by a dearth of vision and common sense among its leaders. Prominent Stanford economist John B. Taylor brings his steady voice of reason to the discussion with a natural solution: start with the countrys founding principles of economic and political freedom - limited government, rule of law, strong incentives, reliance on markets, a predictable policy framework - and reconstruct its economic foundation from these proven principles. Channeling his high-level experience as both a policymaker and researcher, Taylor then zeroes in on current policy issues - the budget, monetary policy, government regulation, tax reform - and lays out in simple terms bold strategies designed to place the country on sound footing in each of these areas.

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Title: Complicit

Subtitle: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable

Author: Mark Gilbert

Narrator: Peter Ganim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

The credit crunch is affecting every investor and every consumer, every industry and every government program, yet few people truly understand how it happened. Subprime mortgages have been center stage, but behind the scenes a conspiracy of greed among bankers, investors, rating agencies and regulators has imperiled everyone's financial future. We need to know what went wrong and how to change the practices that led to this calamity.

Bloomberg columnist Mark Gilbert shows how Wall Street's tolerance for extremes made the global credit crunch both foreseeable and inevitable. He offers a blow-by-blow account of what went wrong and what lessons need to be learned from the crisis.

Gilbert's argumentthat everyone with skin in the money game had a vested interest in pretending that nothing could go awryis a well-defended, compelling indictment of the financial community.

Gilbert is able to make complex financial events easy to understand.

His outlook is truly global: this financial crisis respects no geographical boundaries, and Gilbert draws on anecdotes and examples from around the world to make his case.

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Title: Learn and Understand Economic History

Author: IntroBooks

Narrator: Andrea Giordani

Format: Unabridged

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-29-16

Publisher: IntroBooks

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

Bringing under consideration a significant time span, this brief history of economics is an ideal course for becoming acquainted with the field. This course represents how the thoughts of the considerable economics experts affected social orders along with themselves molded by their social situations. Not only does this course discuss the history of economics, but it also talks about the following topics:

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Title: Paper Money Collapse

Subtitle: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown

Author: Detlev S. Schlichter

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

Detlev Schlichter makes the case for the inevitable failure of a paper money economy, and tells us what that means for the future.

All paper money systems in history have ended in failure. Either they collapsed in chaos, or society returned to commodity money before that could happen. Drawing upon novel research, Paper Money Collapse conclusively illustrates why paper money systems - those based on an elastic and constantly expanding supply of money as opposed to a system of commodity money of essentially fixed supply - are inherently unstable and why they must lead to economic disintegration.

These highly controversial conclusions clash with the present consensus, which holds that elastic state money is superior to inflexible commodity money (such as a gold standard), and that expanding money is harmless or even beneficial for as long as inflation stays low.

Contradicting this, Paper Money Collapse shows that:

This compelling new book looks at the breakdown of modern economic theory and the fallacy of mathematical models. It is an analysis of the current financial crisis and shows in very stark terms that the solutions presented by paper-money-enthusiasts around the world are misguided and inherently flawed.

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Título: Economía explicada a los jóvenes [The Economy Explained to Young People]

Autor: Joan Antoni Melé

Narrador: Gustavo Ausin

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 3 hrs and 15 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 10-25-17

Editor: Editorial Libervox

Calificaciones: 3 de 5 de 1 votos

Categorías: Nonfiction, Economics

Resumen del editor:

Joan Antoni Melé, el banquero que nos ha enseñado la importancia de la ética y la conciencia en relación al dinero, llega con un mensaje urgente para los más jóvenes: lejos de ser sujetos pasivos de la situación incierta que vivimos, los jóvenes poseen ya el poder y la capacidad de cambiar el rumbo de la economía y la sociedad. El futuro va a depender de las decisiones que tomen a partir de ahora. Y nunca es demasiado pronto para empezar.

¿Queremos vivir en un mundo injusto, donde el uno por ciento de la población acumula más riqueza que el noventa y nueve por ciento restante?

¿O en un planeta igualitario y respetuoso, donde todos tengamos oportunidades de progresar y realizarnos?

Con el estilo cercano y didáctico que le caracteriza, Joan Antoni Melé explica conceptos como capital, bolsa, mercado o crisis, pero también va más allá. Fiel a su discurso, presenta la economía como una relación entre personas, en la que cada una de nuestras decisiones y elecciones está decidiendo nuestro destino individual, social y global.

Una obra tremendamente actual, que inducirá a la reflexión y al diálogo a los oyentes de cualquier edad.

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