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  | | Discrimination and Disparities(Updated) by Thomas Sowell Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2019 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-4563-9, ISBN: 1-5416-4563-4 "An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities ariseEconomic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims of genetics. Others believe that those who are less fortunate are victims of the more fortunate. Discrimination and Disparities gathers a wide array of empirical eviden ..." |
 | | Basic Economics(5th Edition) by Thomas Sowell Hardcover, 704 Pages, Published 2014 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-06073-3, ISBN: 0-465-06073-0 "The bestselling citizen's guide to economicsBasic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Bestselling economist Thomas Sowell explains the general principles underlying different economic systems: capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incenti ..." |
 | | Black Rednecks and White Liberals(Updated) by Thomas Sowell Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2006 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-143-4, ISBN: 1-59403-143-6 "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. ..." |
 | | Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2020 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-7513-1, ISBN: 1-5416-7513-4 "The black-white educational achievement gap -- so much discussed for so many years -- has already been closed by black students attending New York City's charter schools. This might be expected to be welcome news. But it has been very unwelcome news in traditional public schools whose students are transferring to charter schools. A backlash against charter schools has been led by teachers unions, politicians and others -- not only in Ne ..." |
 | | A Conflict of Visions(Updated) Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2007 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-00205-4, ISBN: 0-465-00205-6 "Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. 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 natu ..." |
 | | Intellectuals and Race by Thomas Sowell, Robert Powell Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2013 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-05872-3, ISBN: 0-465-05872-8 "Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in AmericaIntellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum, but the views of ..." |
 | | Knowledge And Decisions(Updated) by Thomas Sowell Paperback, 422 Pages, Published 1996 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-03738-4, ISBN: 0-465-03738-0 "With a new preface by the author, this reissue of Thomas Sowell's classic study of decision making updates his seminal work in the context of "The Vision of the Anointed." Sowell, one of America's most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. He warns that society suffers from an ever-widening gap between firsthand knowledge and decision making -- a ..." |
 | | The Vision of the Anointed Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1996 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-08995-6, ISBN: 0-465-08995-X "Thomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and other social pathology. In this book, "politically ..." |
 | | "Trickle Down Theory" and "Tax Cuts for the Rich"(1st Edition) by Thomas Sowell Paperback, 20 Pages, Published 2012 by Hoover Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8179-1615-2, ISBN: 0-8179-1615-6 "This essay unscrambles gross misconceptions that have made rational debates about tax policies virtually impossible for decades." |
 | | Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays(1st Edition) by Thomas Sowell Paperback, 460 Pages, Published 2006 by Hoover Institution Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8179-4752-1, ISBN: 0-8179-4752-3 ""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 me ..." |
 | | Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2023 by Basic Books, New York ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-0392-9, ISBN: 1-5416-0392-3 |
 | | Wealth, Poverty and Politics(2nd Edition) by Thomas Sowell Hardcover, 576 Pages, Published 2016 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-09676-3, ISBN: 0-465-09676-X "A revised and enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's essential examination of differences of wealth and income between nations and within nationsWealth, Poverty and Politics challenges the assumptions, the definitions, the evidence and the reasoning of most of what is said about differences of income and wealth by people in the media, in academia and in politics. After an extensive examination of factors behind the economic differences bet ..." |
 | | Intellectuals and Society(Updated) Revised and Expanded Edition by Thomas Sowell Paperback, 680 Pages, Published 2012 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-02522-0, ISBN: 0-465-02522-6 "Thomas Sowell's classic book on the influence of modern intellectuals 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 ..." |
 | | BASIC ECONOMICS(4th Edition) A COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO THE ECONOMY by Thomas Sowell Hardcover, 786 Pages, Published 2010 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-02252-6, ISBN: 0-465-02252-9 " 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. Basic Economics, which has now been translated into six foreign languages, has ..." |
 | | Dismantling America(1st Edition) and other controversial essays by Thomas Sowell Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2010 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-02251-9, ISBN: 0-465-02251-0 "These wide-ranging essaysâon many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issuesâhave as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries. This decline has been more than an erosion. It has, in many cases, been a deliberate dismantling of American values and institutions by people convinced that their superior wisdom and ..." |
 | | Applied Economics(2nd Edition) Thinking Beyond Stage One by Thomas Sowell Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2008 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-00345-7, ISBN: 0-465-00345-1 "HardCover Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 400 in Publisher: Basic Books 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 l ..." |
 | | A Man of Letters(1st Edition) by Thomas Sowell Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-196-0, ISBN: 1-59403-196-7 "A Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public figures ranging from Milton Friedman to Clarence Thomas, David Riesman, Arthur Ashe, William Proxmire, Vernon Jordan, Charles Murray, Shelby Steele, and Condoleezza Rice. These letters begin with Sowell as a graduate student at the Universi ..." |
 | | Affirmative Action Around the World An Empirical Study (Yale Nota Bene S) by Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2005 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10775-3, ISBN: 0-300-10775-7 "In this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action, investigating its actual consequences in the United States and in other countries where it has been in effect. Evaluating his empirical data, Thomas Sowell concludes that race preference programs worldwide have not met expectations and have often produced the opposite of what was originally intended. " A delight: terse, well-argued, and utterl ..." |
 | | A Conflict of Visions(1st Edition) Idelogical Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2002 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-08142-4, ISBN: 0-465-08142-8 "Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes 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 w ..." |
 | | Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays(1st Edition) (Hoover Institution Press Publication) by Thomas Sowell Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 1999 by Hoover Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8179-9582-9, ISBN: 0-8179-9582-X "In this latest collection of his highly provocative essays, Thomas Sowell once again demonstrates why he is one of the most thoughtful, readable, and controversial thinkers of our time. With his usual unrelenting candor, he cuts through the stereotypes, popular mythology, and what he calls the "mush" surrounding the critical issues facing the American social, economic, political, legal, racial, and education scenes. Sowell's hard-hittin ..." |
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