The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die runs 7.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by James Foster (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 7.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.5 hours, it is shorter than 57% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
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About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,649 Social Science 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 Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die is an audiobook by Keith Payne: a 7.5-hour unabridged recording, read by James Foster, released May 2, 2017, on the Social Science and Economics shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- James Foster
- Released
- May 2, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Economics
- ISBN
- 9781441702760
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die as an audiobook?
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die runs 7.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.
Is The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die?
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die is narrated by James Foster.