The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation runs 7.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Christopher Lane (about 4.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 7.2 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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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 7.2 hours, it runs longer than 62% of the 5,613 Business & Career Development audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Christopher Lane
Christopher Lane narrates 266 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,814 hours in all.
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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 Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation is an audiobook by Antoine Van Agtmael and Fred Bakker: a 7.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Christopher Lane, released March 29, 2016, on the Business & Career Development and Economics shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Christopher Lane
- Released
- March 29, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Business & Career Development, Economics
- ISBN
- 9781511394505
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation as an audiobook?
The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation runs 7.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.8 hours.
Is The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation?
The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation is narrated by Christopher Lane.