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In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in the country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth-production factors such as geography, demography, and culture. Sowell contends that liberals have a particular interest in misreading the data and chastises them for using income inequality as an argument for the welfare state.
Refuting Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and others, Sowell draws on empirical data to show that the inequality is not nearly as extreme or sensational as we have been led to believe. Transcending partisanship through a careful examination of data, Wealth, Poverty, and Politics reveals the truth about the most explosive political issue of our time.
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Critical read for 2008 change election
- De Elaine C Grimes en 06-05-08
De: Thomas Sowell
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Dismantling America
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
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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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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
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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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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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Applied Economics
- Thinking Beyond Stage One: Second Edition
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Bill Wallace
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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Applied Economics is an accessible guide to how our economic decisions develop. It explains the application of economics to major world problems, including housing, medical care, discrimination, and the economic development of nations. The book is based on an international view of economics, includes examples from around the world, and shows how certain incentives and constraints produce similar outcomes among disparate peoples and cultures.
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Look at the long term...it's important!
- De Eunice en 07-20-09
De: Thomas Sowell
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The Economics and Politics of Race
- An International Perspective
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robert Morris
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Using an international framework, Sowell analyzes how much a racial group’s economic fate is determined by the surrounding society and how much by internal patterns that follow that same group around the world.
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Very interesting material, with not very good audi
- De Martin P. Rodgers en 04-03-13
De: Thomas Sowell
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Applied Economics
- Thinking Beyond Stage One
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Brian Emerson
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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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. Many of today's economic issues are obscured by their inherent complexity and the often confusing and conflicting views coming from political talking heads. Sowell, a leading conservative economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, seeks to alleviate this confusion.
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Great book.
- De Dave Marks en 10-12-21
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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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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Ethnic America
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: James Bundy
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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Thomas Sowell provides us with a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups: Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.
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Understanding the ethnic tapestry of America
- De Amazon Customer en 12-23-19
De: Thomas Sowell
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Intellectuals and Race
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
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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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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Hugh Mann
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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This explosive new audiobook challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans and Nazis, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on the trendy intellectuals of our times as well as historic interpreters of American life.
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Great Book, Somewhat Misleading Title
- De ComputerBastard en 05-15-09
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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The Housing Boom and Bust
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
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There was no single, dramatic event that set the current financial crisis off. A whole series of very questionable decisions by many people, in many places, over a period of years, built up the pressures that led to a sudden collapse of the housing market and of financial institutions that began to fall like dominoes as a result of investing in securities based on housing prices. This book is designed to unravel the tangled threads of that story.
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Inciteful Non partisan blame
- De Adolphe en 08-04-09
De: Thomas Sowell
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The Vision of the Anointed
- Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes, but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and other social pathology. In this book, "politically correct" theory is repeatedly confronted with facts-and sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a whole set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites.
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An Absolute Masterpiece!
- De Brendan Martino en 04-04-22
De: Thomas Sowell
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Is Reality Optional?
- And Other Essays
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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Thomas Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes.
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Amazing!
- De Anonymous User en 09-28-22
De: Thomas Sowell
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A Personal Odyssey
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks, a journey that 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 changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.
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Thomas Sowell: An American treasure!
- De Wayne en 06-30-20
De: Thomas Sowell
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- unspoken_edict
- 08-04-18
good analysis
Great book. offers a great perspective on modern economics and the disparities in our world. He posts a great case that the inequalities of our times may not be what they seem...
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- Lorenzo
- 01-23-17
Great Insight for Those Not Buying Mainstream
Great information. Love it. Gives me a better prospect why some cultures succeed and thrive.
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- Baconator
- 03-16-16
The people who need to hear this probably will never do so
Excellently thought out. Explaining how wealth and poverty have multiple causes and the roles are in constant flux.
There are some holes that could use more explanation, but doing so would extend the book, and make the message murky.
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- Geo. Blumel
- 03-24-19
A Great Teacher
Reading Sowell’s books can be the equivalent of an advanced degree in economics. His clear writing and extensive historical research makes learning very interesting.
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- Daniel
- 12-07-20
A synthesis of almost all of his earlier works
I have a goal that before I die I want to have read all of Thomas Sowell's books. I have read about half of them and this book seems to be a good compilation and summary of the other books I have read. Therefore, if you are an avid Sowell reader, you will not find much new here. However, as an introduction to him or as a book to give to someone who will probably not read many or all of his other books, this is a great way to share his logic and bread/depth of knowledge.
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- Shon
- 04-21-21
Thomas Sowell is a GIANT in honest thought.
Thomas Sowell work is truly remarkable and based on facts not feelings. His insights into the victim mentality of individuals being suppressed is thought provoking, raw and base on data.
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- wf
- 03-06-21
A must-read for every minority seeking truth
Should be mandated to be taught at every academic level; this book is that important!
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- Richard Stoeckel Jr
- 02-24-21
Amazing!!
Dr. Sowell is an absolute genius. This is my fourth book by him and so far my favorite. He teaches you how to think, not what to think. A must read for kids heading off to college.
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- keysi
- 01-31-21
An economist's truth by numbers.
Hard to slug through this book as every sentence has a powerful meaning. Thomas Sowell explains history in numbers which does not provide the most breath taking account, yet it accurately explains the circumstances and situations where some individuals/races/people rise while others falter. Could only have been more monotone if it was read by Ben Stein himself. Does not mean it was a bad reader or bad writing; it is just that it is a documenting of facts. Highly recommended to everyone, it should be a high school read requirement.
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- brian A Hemmings
- 08-04-21
Should be required reading in high schools
Thomas Sowell has great insight and speaks from an educated perspective. If everyone would have his understanding of events and history we would heal faster from our media fired divide. This book can be eye opening for those that have been fed the economic history from the public school systems.
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