10 Best Economics, Business & Economics Books
Economics, Business & Economics is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Economics, Business & Economics audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 10 Economics, Business & Economics audiobooks below.
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrator: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 16 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.34(6770 ratings)
4.34(6770 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A provocative read…There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history thatNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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“A provocative read…There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to understand today.” –Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes–and to offer practical advice on how to navigate them well.
A few years ago, Ray Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn’t encountered before. They included huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world’s three major reserve currencies; big political and social conflicts within countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political, and values disparities in more than 100 years; and the rising of a world power (China) to challenge the existing world power (US) and the existing world order. The last time that this confluence occurred was between 1930 and 1945. This realization sent Dalio on a search for the repeating patterns and cause/effect relationships underlying all major changes in wealth and power over the last 500 years.
In this remarkable and timely addition to his Principles series, Dalio brings readers along for his study of the major empires–including the Dutch, the British, and the American–putting into perspective the “Big Cycle” that has driven the successes and failures of all the world’s major countries throughout history. He reveals the timeless and universal forces behind these shifts and uses them to look into the future, offering practical principles for positioning oneself for what’s ahead. -
Making Futures
- By: Sangu Delle
- Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 17, 2020
- Language: English
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4.3(18 ratings)
4.3(18 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDMaking Futures brings together 18 young entrepreneurs from 14 countries doing incredible work across the continent. Their stories are both inspirational and aspirational; providing a template for readers who might be interested in embarking on theirMaking Futures brings together 18 young entrepreneurs from 14 countries doing incredible work across the continent. Their stories are both inspirational and aspirational; providing a template for readers who might be interested in embarking on their own entrepreneurial journey, and allowing others to see the incredible energy and work that is happening across the continent. There’s the story of David Sengeh, who has worked on combatting malaria and lack of energy in Sierra Leone before turning to custom-made prosthetics, to Farida Bedwei, co-founder of the largest microfinance banking software platform in Ghana.
These are entrepreneurs who are helping to reconfigure the narrative about Africa by simply making things for the masses of their population. They represent what is possible and what can be scaled up in different African contexts, despite the dysfunctionality witnessed across the continent. With such diversity of stories, readers have access to potential business ideas, while learning a little about the history of that country and what it takes to build a business in an emerging economy. These men and women have done it and are doing it!
This collection equips readers with intimate knowledge about the markets and growth across the region, and how young creative entrepreneurs are identifying problems as opportunities and seeding growth in a continent that has been long overlooked, but is poised for explosive growth and opportunity, enabled by technology.
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The Rise and Fall of Nations
- By: Ruchir Sharma
- Narrator: William Hughes
- Length: 16 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.14(1881 ratings)
4.14(1881 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDThis pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change. Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world and enlivened by encounters with tycoons, presidents, and villagers from Rio to Beijing, RuchirThis pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change.
Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world and enlivened by encounters with tycoons, presidents, and villagers from Rio to Beijing, Ruchir Sharma’s The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the “dismal science” of economics as a practical art.
Narrowing the thousands of factors that can shape a country’s fortunes to ten clear rules, Sharma explains how to spot political, economic, and social changes in real time. He shows how to read political headlines, black markets, the price of onions, and billionaire rankings as signals of booms, busts, and protests.
Set in a post-crisis age that has turned the world upside down replacing fast growth with low growth and political calm with revolt, Sharma’s pioneering book is an entertaining field guide to understanding change in this era or any era.
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Breakout Nations
- By: Ruchir Sharma
- Narrator: Alan Sklar
- Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.04(2320 ratings)
4.04(2320 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAfter a decade of rapid growth, the world’s most celebrated emerging markets are poised to slow down. Which countries will rise to challenge them? To identify the economic stars of the future, we should abandon the habit of extrapolating fromAfter a decade of rapid growth, the world’s most celebrated emerging markets are poised to slow down. Which countries will rise to challenge them?
To identify the economic stars of the future, we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon.
As an era of easy money and easy growth comes to a close, China in particular will cool down. Other major players including Brazil, Russia, and India face their own daunting challenges and inflated expectations. The new “breakout nations” will probably spring from the margins, even from the shadows. Ruchir Sharma, the head of Morgan Stanley’semerging markets division, here identifies which are most likely to leap ahead and why.
After two decades spent traveling the globe tracking the progress of developing countries, Sharma has produced a book full of surprises: why overpriced cocktails in Rio are a sign of revival in Detroit; how the threat of the “population bomb” came to be seen as a competitive advantage; how an industrial revolution in Asia is redefining what manufacturing can do for a modern economy; and how the coming shakeout in the big emerging markets could shift the spotlight back to the West, especially American technology and German manufacturing.
What emerges is a clear picture of the shifting balance of global economic power and how it plays out for emerging nations and for the West. In a captivating exploration studded with vignettes, Sharma reveals his rules on how to spot economic success stories. Breakout Nations is a rollicking education for anyone looking to understand where the future will happen.
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The New Golden Age
- By: Ravi Batra
- Narrator: Brian Emerson
- Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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3.97(65 ratings)
3.97(65 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn this groundbreaking treatise, bestselling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to world economic prosperity and what we need to do to overcome them. Bringing the same insight and expertise that made his book The Downfall ofIn this groundbreaking treatise, bestselling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to world economic prosperity and what we need to do to overcome them. Bringing the same insight and expertise that made his book The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism an international bestseller, Batra takes on falling minimum wages, corporate scandals, rocketing oil prices, and many of the other crises facing the world economy. He offers an expansive, optimistic vision of how the international community can address them and bring about something historically unprecedented: true global economic prosperity.
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Postcapitalism
- By: Paul Mason
- Narrator: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.78(2664 ratings)
3.78(2664 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDWe know that our world is undergoing seismic change–but how can we emerge from the crisis a fairer, more equal society? Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes–economic cycles that veer from boom toWe know that our world is undergoing seismic change–but how can we emerge from the crisis a fairer, more equal society?
Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes–economic cycles that veer from boom to bust–from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason’s Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big and so profound that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system within which entire societies function, will mutate into something wholly new.
At the heart of this change is information technology, a revolution that is driven by capitalism but, with its tendency to push the value of much of what we make toward zero, has the potential to destroy an economy based on markets, wages, and private ownership. Almost unnoticed in the niches and hollows of the market system, swaths of economic life are beginning to move to a different rhythm. Vast numbers of people are changing how they behave and live, in ways contrary to the current system of state-backed corporate capitalism. And as the terrain changes, new paths open.
In this bold and prophetic book, Mason shows how, from the ashes of the crisis, we have the chance to create a more socially just and sustainable economy. Although the dangers ahead are profound, he argues that there is cause for hope. This is the first time in human history in which, equipped with an understanding of what is happening around us, we can predict and shape the future.
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The New Global Road Map
- By: Pankaj Ghemawat
- Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.7(18 ratings)
3.7(18 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDWhat Globalization Now Means for Your Business. Executives can no longer base their strategies on the assumption that globalization will continue to advance steadily. But how should they respond to the growing pressures against globalization? AndWhat Globalization Now Means for Your Business. Executives can no longer base their strategies on the assumption that globalization will continue to advance steadily. But how should they respond to the growing pressures against globalization? And what can businesses do to control their destinies in these times of uncertainty? In The New Global Road Map, Pankaj Ghemawat separates fact from fiction by giving readers a better understanding of the key trends affecting global business. He also explains how globalization levels around the world are changing, and where they are likely to go in the future. Using the most up-to-date data and analysis, Ghemawat dispels today’s most dangerous myths and provides a clear view of the most critical issues facing policy makers in the years ahead. Building on this analysis, with examples from a diverse set of companies across industries and geographies, Ghemawat provides actionable frameworks and tools to help executives revise their strategies, restructure their global footprints, realign their organizations, and rethink how they work with local governments and institutions. In our era of rising nationalism and increased skepticism about globalization’s benefits, The New Global Road Map delivers the definitive guide on how to compete profitably across borders.
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Collusion
- By: Nomi Prins
- Narrator: Ellen Archer
- Length: 14 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.7(231 ratings)
3.7(231 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDIn this searing exposA(c)former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Central banks and international institutionsIn this searing exposA(c)former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order.
Central banks and international institutions like the IMF have overstepped their traditional mandates by directing the flow of epic sums of fabricated money without any checks or balances. Meanwhile, the open door between private and central banking has ensured endless opportunities for market manipulation and asset bubbles — with government support.
Through on-the-ground reporting, Prins reveals how five regions and their central banks reshaped economics and geopolitics. She discloses how Mexico navigated its relationship with the US while striving for independence and how Brazil led the BRICS countries to challenge the US dollar’s hegemony. She explains how China’s retaliation against the Fed’s supremacy is aiding its ongoing ascent as a global superpower and how Japan is negotiating the power shift from the West to the East. And she illustrates how the European response to the financial crisis fueled instability that manifests itself in everything from rising populism to the shocking Brexit vote.
Packed with tantalizing details about the elite players orchestrating the world economy — from Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi to Ben Bernanke and Christine Lagarde — Collusion takes the reader inside the most discreet conversations at exclusive retreats like Jackson Hole and Davos. A work of meticulous reporting and bracing analysis, Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance.
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Rwanda, Inc.
- By: Patricia Crisafulli
- Narrator: Hillary Huber
- Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.28(223 ratings)
3.28(223 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDEighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, yet left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround. Rising out of the complete devastation of a failed state, Rwanda has emerged on theEighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, yet left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround. Rising out of the complete devastation of a failed state, Rwanda has emerged on the world stage yet again–this time with a unique model for governance and economic development under the leadership of its strong and decisive president, Paul Kagame.
Here, Patricia Crisafulli and Andrea Redmond look at Kagame’s leadership, his drive for excellence and execution that draws comparisons to American CEOs and emphasizes the development of a sophisticated and competitive workforce that leverages human capital. In Rwanda, the ultimate turnaround, strong and effective leadership has made a measurable and meaningful difference. Rwanda’s progress offers an example for other developing nations to lift themselves out of poverty without heavy reliance on foreign aid through decentralization, accountability, self-determination, and self-sufficiency. The authors also explore Rwanda’s journey toward its goal of becoming a middle-income nation with a technology-based economy and its progress in encouraging private sector development and fostering entrepreneurship while also making gains in education, health care, and food security–and all with a strong underpinning of reconciliation and unification. As so many nations stand on the brink of political and economic revolution, this is a timely and fascinating look at the implications of Rwanda’s success for the rest of the continent–and the world.
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China, US & the Future of Global Economy
- By: Meg Rithmire
- Narrator: Meg Rithmire
- Length: 57 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 13, 2021
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDOne Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds ofOne Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Clearly, the fate of the global economy depends on developments in these two countries and on the relationship between them. Recent discussion about “strategic partnership and strategic competition” obscures the longer relationship between these two economies. Professor Rithmire’s lecture explains the past, present, and future of economic interdependence of China and the U.S., making sense of its role in the global financial crisis of 2008 and the adjustments taking place in its wake. Along with exploring this substantive issue, the lecture also covers basic macroeconomic tools anyone can use to understand global trade and capital flows. This audio lecture includes a supplemental PDF.
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