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The Thomas Sowell Reader The Thomas Sowell Reader
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These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell’s letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines...

Intellectuals and Society: Revised and Expanded Edition Intellectuals and Society: Revised and Expanded Edition
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This title offers a withering and clear-eyed critique about (but not for) intellectuals that explores their impact on public opinion, policy, and society at large. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public opinion in ways that affect the actions of power holders in democratic societies, whether or not those power holders accept the general vision or the particular policies favored by intellectuals...

Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
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The fourth edition of Basic Economics is both expanded and updated. A new chapter on the history of economics itself has been added, and the implications of that history examined. A new section on the special role of corporations in the economy has been added to the chapter on government and big business, among other additions throughout the book...

Black Rednecks and White Liberals Black Rednecks and White Liberals
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This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted...

Economic Facts and Fallacies: Second Edition Economic Facts and Fallacies: Second Edition
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In Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics. These fallacies include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as fallacies about urban problems, income differences, male-female economic differences, as well as economic fallacies about academia, about race, and about Third World countries...

A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
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In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the “constrained” vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the “unconstrained” vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible...

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
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The nationally bestselling author of Race and Culture and Inside America presents a devastating examination of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past 30 years, whose defects have led to crises on education, crime, and family dynamics, "An important and incisive book...

The Housing Boom and Bust The Housing Boom and Bust
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This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The “creative” financing of home mortgages and the even more “creative” marketing of financial securities based on American mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up—and then suddenly collapsed...

Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays
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"The desire of individuals and groups to puff themselves up by imposing their vision on other people is a recurring theme in the culture wars" Thomas Sowell takes on a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues--along with "the culture wars"--in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays...

Dismantling America: and other controversial essays Dismantling America: and other controversial essays
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These wide-ranging essays—on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues—have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries...

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