Audiobooks Narrated by Louis Rukeyser

The Great Economic Thinkers series is a collection of audio presentations that explain, in understandable language, the major ideas of historys most important economists. Special emphasis is placed on each thinkers attitude toward capitalism, revealing their influence in todays debate on economic progress and prosperity.

Jean Paul Getty and John Templeton are great examples of “bargain hunters” or “contrarians,” who seek to find promising stocks that are out of favor or fashion—and therefore undervalued.

Carl Menger (1840-1921) and Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk (1851-1914), working in Vienna in the late nineteenth century, rejected the classical and Marxian ideas that value can be measured objectively.

Benjamin Graham developed "value investing," a style adopted by Warren Buffett, one of history's most successful investors…

LĂ©on Walras (1834-1910) transformed economics from a literary discipline into a mathematical, deterministic science.

In America's financial nerve center, fortunes are made, and sometimes lost. J.P. Morgan, Jay Gould, Hetty Green, Jim Brady, Jesse Livermore, Bernard Baruch, Joseph Kennedy, and many others have made "the street" what it is today.

Dr. Arjo Klamer: Monetarism emerged in the 1960's under the leadership of Milton Friedman, who received the Nobel Prize in 1976....

Public confidence in financial markets depends on the perception that they are fair and just, not distorted or manipulated to the advantage of particular traders.

Joseph Schumpeter viewed capitalism as a dynamic engine of progress....

Alfred Marshall, (1842-1924) a British economics professor at Oxford University, developed economics into a more rigorous, professional discipline than ever before.