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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Poli...
$73.21
Shows how social theorists--from William Godwin and Adam Smith in the eighteenth century to John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman in the twentieth--have based their thinking on two irreconcilable premises: the constrained and unconstrained vision Author: Sowell, Thomas Publisher: William Morrow..
A Personal Odyssey
$13.19
The Harvard-educated economist traces his journey from the mean streets of Harlem to the halls of power in government and industry, offering readers a compelling portrait of an American success story. Author: Sowell, Thomas Publisher: Free Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 06848646..
A Personal Odyssey
$16.33
This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically chang..
Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical ...
$14.60
This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have. It also moves the discussion beyond the theories, principles, and laws that have been so often debated to the actual empirical..
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
$19.36
The application of economics to major contemporary real world problems -- housing, medical care, discrimination, the economic development of nations -- is the theme of this new book that tackles these and other issues head on in plain language, as distinguished from the usual jargon of economists. I..
Basic Economics A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
$23.10
This is the revised and enlarged edition of a new kind of introduction to economics for the general public-without graphs, statistics, or jargon. In addition to being updated, Basic Economics has also become more internationalized by including economic problems from more countries around the world, ..
Conquests And Cultures: An International History
$29.19
This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within n..
Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition
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Thomas Sowell “both surprises and overturns received wisdom” in this indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies (The Economist)Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior ..
Ethnic America: A History
$50.33
This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups—the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans. Author: Thomas Sowell Publisher: Basic Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0465020747 I..
Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays
$9.32
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 matte..
July 2, 1903: The Mysterious Death of Hall-Of-Fame...
$21.96
Investigates the death of one of baseball's earliest all-stars, whose "accidental" fall into Niagara Falls occurred just a few months before the team's corrupt owners organized the first World Series. Author: Sowell, Mike Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0026..
Knowledge And Decisions
$31.48
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 Annointed, Sowell, one of America's most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and dissemina..
Marxism: Philosophy and Economics
$181.92
Sowell leads the listener through the Marxian scheme of ideas, shattering some existing interpretations of Marx which have developed through repetition rather than through scholarship. 6 cassettes. Author: Sowell, Thomas Publisher: William Morrow & Co Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 06..
Migrations And Cultures: A World View
$15.56
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 ..
One Pitch Away: The Players' Stories of the 1986 L...
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Interviews with the key players among the Angels, Astros, Mets, and Red Sox document a remarkable season and arguably the most spectacular comeback in the history of the sport Author: Sowell, Mike Publisher: Macmillan General Reference Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0026124165 ISBN-13..
Pink and Brown People and Other Controversial Essa...
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Book by Sowell, Thomas Author: Sowell, Thomas Publisher: Hoover Inst Pr Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0817975322 ISBN-13: 9780817975326..
Race and Economics
$86.51
Race and Economics Author: Sowell, Thomas Publisher: David McKay Company Inc Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 067930262X ISBN-13: 9780679302629..
Say's Law: An Historical Analysis (Princeton Legac...
$35.61
Say's Law the idea that "supply creates its own demand" has been a basic concept in economics for almost two centuries. Thomas Sowell traces its evolution as it emerged from successive controversies, particularly two of the most bitter and long lasting in the history of the discipline, the "general ..
The Economics and Politics of Race: An Internation...
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Using an international framework to analyze group differences, Thomas Sowell conducts a significant study of how much of racial groups' economic fate has been determined by society and how much by internal patterns identified in the same group worldwide. 7 cassettes. Author: Sowell, Thomas Publisher..
The Pitch That Killed
$11.80
Since major league baseball began in 1871, there have been roughly 30 million pitches thrown to batters. Only one of them killed a man. This is the story of Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians, a popular player struck in the head and killed in August 1920 by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays of the New Y..
The Quest for Cosmic Justice
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The Hoover Institution Senior Fellow challenges the utopian social theory that he believes has eroded basic American freedoms and made the nation weaker as a result. Tour. Author: Sowell, Thomas Publisher: Free Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0684864622 ISBN-13: 8601422740622..
The Thomas Sowell Reader
$25.78
A one-volume introduction to over three decades of the wide-ranging writings of one of America's most respected and cited authorsThese selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The so..
Trickle Down Theory and Tax Cuts for the Rich
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This essay unscrambles gross misconceptions that have made rational debates about tax policies virtually impossible for decades. Author: Sowell, Thomas Publisher: Hoover Institution Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0817916156 ISBN-13: 9780817916152..