Thomas Sowell

In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives....

An enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparities Economic 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...

This explosive new audiobook challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans and Nazis, about slavery, and about education....

This book is geared to the average citizen with little or no economics background who would like the tools to think critically about economic issues. Sowell is a leading conservative economist....

Thomas Sowell provides us with a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups....

An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony....

The underlying concern of these essays is about what these very different kinds of cases say about the general direction of American society....

The role of intellectuals in racial strife is here explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light....

Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist....

This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times....

The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and...

Marxism is a term that many people freely use, but few seem to grasp its implications. Sowell's book is the antidote to this problem....

Using an international framework, Sowell analyzes how much a racial group’s economic fate is determined by the surrounding society....

The fourth edition of Basic Economics is both expanded and updated....

Learning economics should be not only a relaxed experience but also an enjoyable one....

These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues....

Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays....

Winner of the 2021 Hayek Book Prize A leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools against the teachers' unions, politicians, and liberal educators who threaten to dismantle their success. The black-white educational achievement gap -- so much discussed for so many years -- has...

This reissue of Thomas Sowell’s classic study of decision making, which includes a preface by the author, updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Anointed....

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.