12 Best Theory, Business & Economics Books
Theory, Business & Economics is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Theory, Business & Economics audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 12 Theory, Business & Economics audiobooks below.
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Yellen
- By: Jon Hilsenrath
- Narrator: Jon Hilsenrath
- Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.46(67 ratings)
4.46(67 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USD“A vivid portrait of an exceptional woman and a lively history of the economic and financial crises that helped make the treasury secretary and former Fed chair who she is today.” –Sylvia Nasar, #1 New York Times bestselling author“A vivid portrait of an exceptional woman and a lively history of the economic and financial crises that helped make the treasury secretary and former Fed chair who she is today.” –Sylvia Nasar, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind
“Captivating. . . . Part biography, part history of ideas, the book provides a fascinating window into the ways thinking on economic policy has evolved in the last 25 years. . . . A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the current economic challenges we face.” –Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lords of Finance
An engrossing and deeply human chronicle of the past fifty years of American economic and social upheaval, viewed through the consequential life of the most powerful woman in American economic history, Janet Yellen, and her unconventional partnership in marriage and work with Nobel Laureate George Akerlof.
At the dawn of the 21st century, many of America’s leaders believed that free trade, modern finance, technology, and wise government policy had paved the way for a new era of prosperity. Then came a cascade of disasters–a bursting tech bubble, domestic terror attacks, a housing market implosion, a financial system crisis, a deadly global pandemic. These events led to serial recessions, deepened America’s political fractures and widened the divide between those best off and everyone else.
Award-winning economics writer Jon Hilsenrath examines what happened, viewing events through the experiences of two historic figures: Janet Yellen was Treasury Secretary, Federal Reserve Chairwoman and Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Her husband, George Akerlof, was an imaginative Nobel prize-winning economist.
Long before the upheaval of the past two decades, Akerlof warned of flaws in modern economic thinking; then Yellen had to fix the economy on the fly as it cracked.
In telling their story, Hilsenrath explores long-running intellectual battles over the fragile balance between unruly democratic government and unpredictable markets. He introduces readers to the cast of modern intellectuals and policy makers who deciphered, shaped, and steered these systems through prosperity, chaos, and reformation. And he explains what went wrong, why, and what might happen next.
What emerges is an absorbing examination of how humans think and behave, and how those actions shape markets, inform economic policy, and could determine the future of a now-deeply divided nation.
Hilsenrath reminds us that economics is neither science nor ideology, as some once wished or promised.
Economics is an endeavor.
Most good love stories are, too.
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Basic Economics, Fifth Edition
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrator: Tom Weiner
- Length: 23 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.36(39 ratings)
4.36(39 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDIn this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explainIn this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives. Drawing on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history, Sowell explains basic economic principles for the general public in plain English.
Basic Economics, which has now been translated into six languages and has additional material online, remains true to its core principle: that the fundamental facts and principles of economics do not require jargon, graphs, or equations and can be learned in a relaxed and even enjoyable way.
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Free Market Revolution
- By: Yaron Brook
- Narrator: Tom Weiner
- Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.23(552 ratings)
4.23(552 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDHere is a look at how our current economic crises are caused by too much government–and how Ayn Rand’s bold defense of free markets can help us change course. The rise of the Tea Party and the 2010 election results revealed that tens ofHere is a look at how our current economic crises are caused by too much government–and how Ayn Rand’s bold defense of free markets can help us change course. The rise of the Tea Party and the 2010 election results revealed that tens of millions of Americans are alarmed by big government but skeptical that anything can or will be done to stop the growth of the state. In Free Market Revolution, the keepers of Ayn Rand’s legacy argue that the answer lies in Rand’s pioneering philosophy of capitalism and self-interest–a philosophy that more and more people are turning to for answers. In the past few years, Rand’s works have surged to new peaks of popularity, as politicians like Paul Ryan, media figures like John Stossel, and businessmen like John Mackey routinely name her as one of their chief influences. Here, Brook and Watkins explain how her ideas can solve a host of political and economic ills, including the debt crisis, inflation, overregulation, and the growing welfare state. And most importantly, they show how Rand’s philosophy can enable defenders of the free market to seize the moral high ground in the fight to limit government. This is a fresh and urgent look at the ideas of one of the most controversial figures in modern history–ideas that may prove the only hope for the future.
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Free to Choose
- By: Milton Friedman
- Narrator: James Adams
- Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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4.22(7501 ratings)
4.22(7501 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDAll who listen to this masterful and lucid polemic for a free-market economy will never question Milton Friedman’s Nobel Prize in economics. Milton Friedman and his wife Rose team up to write a most convincing and readable guide thatAll who listen to this masterful and lucid polemic for a free-market economy will never question Milton Friedman’s Nobel Prize in economics.
Milton Friedman and his wife Rose team up to write a most convincing and readable guide that illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith’s capitalism and the free society. They show how freedom has been eroded and prosperity undermined through the rapid growth of governmental agencies, laws, and regulations. While a large central government may have good intentions, the results it produces are lamentable. More than another indictment of government planning and bureaucracy, however, Free to Choose offers several convincing and creative remedies to the world’s woes.
Powerful and persuasive, here is the important analysis of what has gone wrong in America in the past and what is necessary for our economic health to flourish.
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The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure
- By: John Allison
- Narrator: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.09(309 ratings)
4.09(309 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDDid Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the entire financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? The answer is no. Not only is free market capitalism good forDid Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the entire financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? The answer is no.
Not only is free market capitalism good for the economy, says industry expert John Allison, it is our only hope for recovery. As the nation’s longest-serving CEO of one of the top twenty-five financial institutions, Allison has had a unique inside view of the events leading up to the financial crisis. He has seen the direct effect of government incentives on the real estate market. He has seen how government regulations only make matters worse. Now in this controversial wake-up call of a book, he has given us a solution. The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure reveals
– why regulation is bad for the market–and for the world; – what we can do to promote a healthy free market; – how we can help end unemployment in America; – the truth about TARP and the bailouts; – how Washington can help Wall Street build a better future for everyone.
With shrewd insight, alarming insider details, and practical advice for today’s leaders, this electrifying analysis is nothing less than a call to arms for a nation on the brink. You’ll learn how government incentives helped blow up the real estate bubble to unsustainable proportions, how financial tools such as derivatives have been wrongly blamed for the crash, and how Congress fails to understand it should not try to control the market–and then completely mismanages it when it tries. In the end, you’ll understand why it’s so important to put the “free” back into free market.
It’s time for America to accept the truth: the government can’t fix the economy because the government wrecked the economy. This book gives us the tools, the inspiration–and the cure.
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Management Challenges for the 21St Century
- By: Peter F. Drucker
- Narrator: Mark Blum
- Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 04, 2005
- Language: English
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4.07(696 ratings)
4.07(696 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDNew and revolutionary ideas and perspectives on the central management issues of tomorrow by the man Warren Bennis calls “the most important management thinker of our time.” In this major new work, Peter F. Drucker discusses how the newNew and revolutionary ideas and perspectives on the central management issues of tomorrow by the man Warren Bennis calls “the most important management thinker of our time.”
In this major new work, Peter F. Drucker discusses how the new paradigms of management will change our basic assumptions about the practices and principles of management. Drucker explains “The New Information Revolution” discussing the information an executive needs and the information an executive owes. He examines knowledge-worker productivity, and he writes about the ultimate challenge of managing yourself and meeting the new demands on the individual in a longer working life and an ever-changing workplace.
Incisive, challenging and mind-stretching, Management Challenges for the 21st Century combines the wide practical experience, profound insight, sharp analysis and enlightened common sense that are the essence of Drucker’s writings.
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- By: Philip Coggan
- Narrator: Philip Coggan
- Length: 15 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 24, 2020
- Language: English
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3.99(202 ratings)
3.99(202 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today. From the development of international trade fairs in the twelfth century to the innovations made in China, India, and the Arab world,A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today.
From the development of international trade fairs in the twelfth century to the innovations made in China, India, and the Arab world, it turns out that historical economies were much more sophisticated that we might imagine, tied together by webs of credit and financial instruments much like our modern economy.
Here, Philip Coggan takes us from the ancient mountains of North Wales through Grand Central station and the great civilizations of Mesopotamia to the factories of Malaysia, showing how changes in agriculture, finance, technology, work, and demographics have driven the progress of human civilization. It’s the story of how trade became broader and deeper over thousands of years; how governments have influenced economies, for good or ill; and how societies have repeatedly tried to tame, and harness, finance. More shows how, at every step of our long journey, it was the connection between people that resulted in more trade, more specialization, more freedom, and ultimately, more prosperity.... Read more -
The Zero Marginal Cost Society
- By: Jeremy Rifkin
- Narrator: David Cochran Heath
- Length: 14 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.95(1428 ratings)
3.95(1428 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDIn The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin argues that the capitalist era is passing–not quickly, but inevitably. The emerging Internet of Things is giving rise to a new economic system that willIn The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin argues that the capitalist era is passing–not quickly, but inevitably. The emerging Internet of Things is giving rise to a new economic system that will transform our way of life.
In this provocative new book, Rifkin argues that the coming together of the Communication Internet with the fledgling Energy Internet and Logistics Internet in a seamless twenty-first-century intelligent infrastructure–the Internet of Things–is boosting productivity to the point where the marginal cost of producing many goods and services is nearly zero, making them essentially free. The result is that corporate profits are beginning to dry up, property rights are weakening, and the conventional mind-set of scarcity is slowly giving way to the possibility of abundance. The zero marginal cost phenomenon is spawning a hybrid economy–part capitalist market and part “collaborative commons”–with far-reaching implications for society.
Rifkin describes how hundreds of millions of people are already transferring parts of their economic lives from capitalist markets to what he calls the global Collaborative Commons. “Prosumers” are making and sharing their own information, entertainment, green energy, and 3-D printed products at near zero marginal cost. They are also sharing cars, homes, clothes, and other items via social media sites, redistribution clubs, and cooperatives at low or near zero marginal cost. Students are even enrolling in free MOOCs, massive open online courses that operate at near zero marginal cost. And young social entrepreneurs are establishing ecologically sensitive businesses using crowdfunding as well as creating alternative currencies in the new sharing economy. In this new world, social capital is as important as financial capital, access trumps ownership, cooperation supersedes competition, and “exchange value” in the capitalist marketplace is increasingly replaced by “sharable value” on the Collaborative Commons.
Rifkin concludes that while capitalism will be with us for the foreseeable future, albeit in an increasingly diminished role, it will not be the dominant economic paradigm by the second half of the twenty-first century. We are, Rifkin says, entering a world beyond markets, where we are learning how to live together in an increasingly interdependent global Collaborative Commons.
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The Making of Modern Economics, Fourth Edition
- By: Mark Skousen
- Narrator: Robertson Dean
- Length: 21 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics–the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today’s rigorous social science. This comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the majorThe Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics–the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today’s rigorous social science.
This comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the major economic philosophers begins with Adam Smith and continues through to the present day. It examines the contributions each one made to our understanding of the role of the economist, the science of economics, and economic theory. Each chapter highlights little-known and entertaining facts about the economists’ personal lives that had an influence on their work.
The fourth edition adds coverage of modern monetary theory, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, minimum wage debates, Schumpeter and socialism, Malthus and immigration, and more.
The Making of Modern Economics is a valuable, engaging text for courses in the history of economic thought and political economy.
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Economics in Two Lessons
- By: John Quiggin
- Narrator: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.76(88 ratings)
3.76(88 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes–and failures–of free-market economics Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt’s bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down toA masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes–and failures–of free-market economics
Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt’s bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. But one-lesson economics tells only half the story. It can explain why markets often work so well, but it can’t explain why they often fail so badly–or what we should do when they stumble. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson quipped, “When someone preaches ‘economics in one lesson,’ I advise: go back for the second lesson.” In Economics in Two Lessons, John Quiggin teaches both lessons, offering a masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes–and failures–of free markets.
Economics in Two Lessons explains why market prices often fail to reflect the full cost of our choices to society as a whole. For example, every time we drive a car, fly in a plane, or flick a light switch, we contribute to global warming. But, in the absence of a price on carbon emissions, the costs of our actions are borne by everyone else. In such cases, government action is needed to achieve better outcomes.
Two-lesson economics means giving up the dogmatism of laissez-faire as well as the reflexive assumption that any economic problem can be solved by government action, since the right answer often involves a mixture of market forces and government policy. But the payoff is huge: understanding how markets actually work–and what to do when they don’t.
Brilliantly accessible, Economics in Two Lessons unlocks the essential issues at the heart of any economic question.
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The Keynesian Revolution
- By: Fred Glahe
- Narrator: Louis Rukeyser
- Length: 2 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.66(56 ratings)
3.66(56 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.95 USDJohn Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was without question the most influential economist of the twentieth century. His most important work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, was published in 1936, and it was widely perceived asJohn Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was without question the most influential economist of the twentieth century. His most important work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, was published in 1936, and it was widely perceived as offering plausible explanations and solutions for the Great Depression.
Keynes suggested that capitalism is vulnerable to instability caused by insufficient consumer demand. He emphasized the reluctance of workers to accept reductions in nominal wages, preventing free market adjustments to unemployment. Based on these and other perceived defects in the capitalist system, Keynes suggested government intervention in the economy, and modern politicians have accepted and applied Keynesian ideas with great enthusiasm.
The Great Economic Thinkers Series is a collection of presentations that explain in understandable language the major ideas of history’s most important economists. Special emphasis is placed on each thinker’s attitude toward capitalism, revealing their influence in today’s debate on economic progress and prosperity.
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Tarzan Economics
- Narrator: Angus King
- Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 18, 2021
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDTaking the lessons learned from his years studying the rise and fall of the modern music industry, Spotify’s Chief Economist has crafted “a compelling and generous read” (Scott Galloway) that provides the tools to recognize and
Taking the lessons learned from his years studying the rise and fall of the modern music industry, Spotify’s Chief Economist has crafted “a compelling and generous read” (Scott Galloway) that provides the tools to recognize and adapt to disruption in any industry.
Drawing practical lessons from a variety of fresh case studies covering Radiohead, Starbucks, and even Groucho Marx, Page examines the eight principles that disruption has thrown into sharp relief as keys to survival in any sector. Businesses need to be ready and willing to change and, if necessary, be prepared to rebuild entire organizations and business models to do so. Pivoting through disruption has everything to do with being able to see the revolutionary changes around the corner, recognizing your strengths, and having the confidence to let go of the old vine of doing business and grab onto the new.
A rare book of economics offering actionable takeaways in easy-to-understand language, Tarzan Economics is the must-read book for anyone staring at their own Napster moment and wishing they knew how to fail-safe their business. ... Read more
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