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Thomas Sowell
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Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics. It is listenable enough for people with no prior knowledge of economics. Yet the empirical evidence with which it backs up its analysis spans the globe and challenges beliefs across the ideological spectrum.
The point of Discrimination and Disparities is not to recommend some particular policy "fix" at the end, but to clarify why so many policy fixes have turned out to be counterproductive, and to expose some seemingly invincible fallacies behind many counterproductive policies.
The final chapter deals with social visions and their human consequences.
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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. 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 unsparing candor.
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He does it again.
- De David H en 09-28-23
De: Thomas Sowell
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Intellectuals and Race
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense - 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 book explores the incentives, the visions, and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups but for societies as a whole.
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A Satisfying Indictment of the Intelligentsia
- De Andrew en 12-27-16
De: Thomas Sowell
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Knowledge and Decisions
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 20 h y 53 m
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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. 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 gap that threatens not only our economic and political efficiency but our very freedom.
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Thomas Sowell's Greatest Work
- De Doug en 12-08-12
De: Thomas Sowell
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Migrations and Cultures
- A World View
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 16 h y 25 m
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Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a large number of migrations over a long period of time. Migrations and Cultures shows the persistence of cultural traits in particular racial and ethnic groups.
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Sowell always brings it!
- De nursekatie24 en 07-04-24
De: Thomas Sowell
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Inside American Education
- The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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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.
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Must read if you want to understand the condition in America
- De Aaron en 12-21-21
De: Thomas Sowell
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 14 h y 50 m
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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. The sources range from Dr. Sowell’s letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines. The topics range from latetalking children to tax cuts for the rich, baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care, and the rhetoric of politicians.
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The Best Book By The Smartest Guy in the Room
- De Dave en 10-20-11
De: Thomas Sowell
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Marxism
- Philosophy and Economics
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Christopher Louis
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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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. He writes in a fluid and easy-to-follow manner, leading the listener through the Marxian scheme of ideas. Along the way, he shatters some existing interpretations of Marx-interpretations that have developed through repetition rather than through scholarship.
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A must read, but a hard one!
- De Keyvan en 09-19-16
De: Thomas Sowell
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Civil Rights
- Rhetoric or Reality?
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: James Bundy
- Duración: 4 h y 3 m
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Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at whether the civil rights movement has lived up to its hopes or its rhetoric. In the decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights revolution have stood the test of time, and which have proven to be mistaken or even catastrophic to those who were supposed to be helped?
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Thomas Sowell is the is the Vision of the US
- De DCS en 01-30-16
De: Thomas Sowell
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Dismantling America
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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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. This decline has been more than erosion. It has, in many cases, been a deliberate dismantling of American values and institutions by people convinced that their superior wisdom and virtue must override both the traditions of the country and the will of the people.
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Nice Collection of Essays
- De Laura en 09-01-11
De: Thomas Sowell
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Basic Economics, Fifth Edition
- A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 28 h y 6 m
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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. Drawing on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history, Sowell explains basic economic principles for the general public in plain English.
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The book is great the narrators voice is distracting
- De Eve en 07-28-24
De: Thomas Sowell
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Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage, and multiculturalism.
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Mr. Sowell exposed the soul of America.
- De rutituti. en 11-24-23
De: Thomas Sowell
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies.
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First released 20 years ago & now a classic!
- De Wayne en 11-05-18
De: Thomas Sowell
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Economic Facts and Fallacies
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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Economic Facts and Fallacies is designed for people who want to understand economic issues without getting bogged down in economic jargon, graphs, or political rhetoric. Writing in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues, including many that are widely disseminated in the media and by politicians.
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Good with salt...
- De Michael en 05-08-08
De: Thomas Sowell
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great book
so much good data is presented that I'm going to have to read it again.
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- Todd
- 07-13-20
Good use of data
I wish we were all looking at the same underlying data related to this very important topic. Without the data, I worry that we will empathize the wrong policies and end up in no better or even a worse position than we are now. It feels that Sowell is warning us of this.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-15-20
Simply Brilliant!
This book is so amazing! Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest economist of our generation.
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- brian anderson
- 03-14-21
Profound
Replace gym in school with this book. wait wait. they already got rid of gym.
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- Adam Johns
- 12-12-20
A must read for every social justice warrior
Maybe if the leftist, equality-of-outcome academic would read the truth, we could see the solutions to the problems big-government has created and stop pushing for the government to try to solve those problems, because they only keep getting worse when that happens... Einstein’s definition of insanity is applicable.
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- Leanne Vogel
- 10-03-20
such a POWERFUL message backed by FACT
I wish I could ask that everyone in North America read this book with an open mind and heart. it has the power (through actual fact) to change lives and adjust our future. I'm so happy I took a chance on this book. it's shifted so much of how I see the world and I am forever grateful.
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- M. Docter
- 08-05-20
Mr. Sowell has done it again
Once again I am in awe of this man and how he uses facts and historical evidence to set up his argument.
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- Steeler fan Tom
- 01-16-21
Mandatory reading
Such a logical take on an emotional subject. Should be required reading by every high school student.
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- DON JUNGQUIST
- 08-22-18
Amazing book
This is vintage Thomas Sowell, giving you more of what you need to navigate the maze of P.C. culture and other Leftist nonsense. Use this book to help arm yourself for the war of ideas.
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- M.W.C.
- 03-29-18
Thomas Sowell, brilliant as always
Absolutely fantastic book. Thomas Sowell is the most brilliant thinker America has ever produced. All of his works, including this, are groundbreaking and brilliant. No one digs deeper into a situation to find out what is really going on than Tomas Sowell.
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