Thomas Sowell

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...

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....

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

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....

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....

A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage, and multiculturalism....

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...

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....

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....

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

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

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

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.

Thomas Sowell has a different idea about how economics should be taught. With this groundbreaking introduction to economics, Sowell has thrown out the graphs, statistics, and jargon. Learning economics, he believes, should be relaxing - and even enjoyable....

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....

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....

The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years....

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

Applied Economics is an accessible guide to how our economic decisions develop....

In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of 30 years of work in the history of ideas", Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives....