Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: fallacies, facts, economic
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-12-31
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0465003494
ISBN-13: 9780465003495

From one of America’s most distinguished economists, a short, brilliant and revelatory book: the fundamental ideas people most commonly get wrong about economics, and how to think about the subject better. Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues--and does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior knowledge of economics by the readers. 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 w

Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Keywords: essays, controversial, wonder
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 2006-11-13
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0817947523
ISBN-13: 9780817947521

"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. From "gun control myths" to "mealy mouth media" to "free lunch medicine," Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about with his characteristically unswerving candor. Sowell skewers the "mealy mouth media" th

Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: one, stage, thinking, economics, applied
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-12-08
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0465003451
ISBN-13: 9780465003457

This revised edition of Applied Economics is about fifty percent larger than the first edition. It now includes a chapter on the economics of immigration and new sections of other chapters on such topics as the “creative” financing of home-buying that led to the current “subprime” mortgage crisis, the economics of organ transplants, and the political and economic incentives that lead to money earmarked for highways being diverted to mass transit and to a general neglect of infrastructure. On these and other topics, its examples are drawn from around the world. Much mate

Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: revised, expanded, economy, guide, economics, citizen, basic
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-12-24
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0465081452
ISBN-13: 9780465081455

This is the revised and enlarged edition of a new kind of introduction to economics for the general public-without graphs, statistics, or jargon. In addition to being updated, Basic Economics has also become more internationalized by including economic problems from more countries around the world, because the basic principles of economics are not confined by national borders. While most chapter titles remain the same, their contents have changed considerably, reflecting the experiences of many different peoples and cultures.

Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: guide, economy, sense, common, economics, basic
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-04-02
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0465002609
ISBN-13: 9780465002603

This completely revised and updated third edition of Thomas Sowell’s instrumental work includes a new chapter on government finance. Basic Economics is a citizen’s guide to economics--for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Sowell reveals the general principles behind any kind of economy--capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the goals they proclaim. With clear explanations of the entire field, from rent

Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: economics, classical
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-10-28
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0300126069
ISBN-13: 9780300126068

Thomas Sowell’s many writings on the history of economic thought have appeared in a number of scholarly journals and books, and these writings have been praised, reprinted, and translated in various countries around the world.The classical era in the history of economics is an important part of the history of ideas in general, and its implications reach beyond the bounds of the economics profession. On Classical Economics is a book from which students can learn both history and economics. It is not simply a Cook’s tour of colorful personalities of the past but a study of how certai

Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: society, intellectuals
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 046501948X
ISBN-13: 9780465019489

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. 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. Even gover