The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics runs 9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by David Drummond (about 6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 9 hours, it runs longer than 51% of the 8,990 Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog.
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About as long, on the Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelf
1,600 Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics is an audiobook by Jonathan Chait: a 9-hour unabridged recording, read by David Drummond, released November 15, 2007, on the Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9 hrs
- Narrated by
- David Drummond
- Released
- November 15, 2007
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
- ISBN
- 9781400175505
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics as an audiobook?
The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics runs 9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6 hours.
Is The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics?
The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics is narrated by David Drummond.