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Books by Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is a renowned economist, syndicated columnist, writer and social theorist who is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has published a large volume of writing. His books, as well as numerous articles and essays, cover ideas ranging from Marxian economics to race, education, decision-making, as well as developmental disorders. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.

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Economic Facts and Fallacies

Thomas Sowell

The author of “Basic Economics,” Thomas Sowell continues popularizing economics in simple plain language and easily understandable examples in his 2008 “Economic Facts and Fallacies.” Sowell’s book examines some of the most popular economic fallacies often disseminated by the media and politicians, divided into categories of urban life, gender, academia, income, race, and the problems of the third world.

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Basic Economics

Thomas Sowell

Reviewing Thomas Sowell’s highly acclaimed “Knowledge and Decisions” back in 1981, Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek – coincidentally, one of the author’s most noteworthy influences – commended him for his ability to translate “abstract and theoretical argument into concrete and realistic discussion of the central problems of contemporary economic policy.” Well, pretty much the same can be said about “Basic Economics,” Sowell’s mammoth 750-page, 1000-footnote, and 2000-introduction to arguably the most important – and the most misunderstood – of all social sciences. Lacking graphs, equations and even economic jargon – “so that it can be readily understood by people with no previous knowledge of economics” – the book is imagined, as originally subtitled, as “a citizen’s guide to the economy.”

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