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 enlarge | Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  59 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0465003494
Dewey Decimal Number: 330
EAN: 9780465003495
ASIN: 0465003494
Publication Date: December 31, 2007
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 Thought provoking October 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Thomas Sowell is direct and to the point. He writes in a way that is easy to understand and very informative. This book should be required reading for everyone before they get a credit card or vote!
Required Reading for candidates September 17, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
My fantasy of having great wealth is to start a foundation that would give a book a week to every member of Congress, every state legislator, every government policymaker, every opinion columnist and every candidate. This would be the second book we'd give out. First would be Sowell's "Basic Economics." Yes, it might not do any good. I recently cited to a newspaper columnist Sowell's history of what happens to government revenues when you increase the Capital Gains tax (hint: the opposite of what's expected). The columnist told me those were "right wing facts" and he wasn't interested in any facts that supported business. Really. Too many people want to discard any facts that don't support their cherished illusions, preferring comfortable lies, which is why politicians of both parties get elected promising to do things that sound good, but hurt the majority of people they claim to be helping.
Reading Thomas Sowell would at least make it harder for them to do with a straight face. And if every voter read Sowell, it would be much harder for politicians to pander to their uninformed prejudice.
Economic Facts and Fallacies September 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thomas Sowell is a remarkable writer. He explains economics and politics in such a common sense way. Thomas Sowell's books and articles in [...] are always refreshing to read.
 Further your economic education September 13, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I decided that as a responsible citizen I should try to learn a few things about economics. I found that this book is a great aid in that endeavor. Dr. Sowell is a master in making the complex principles of economics easy for the layman. Although my favorite is his book, "Basic Economics," this book is an excellent further examination into some of the principles he brought up in that one. My favorites here were the chapters on college education, income disparity, and the third world. For those that wonder about some of the economic statistics that are so easily thrown around by the media--Dr. Sowell takes some of them on and clearly shows where they are wrong. Every informed citizen should read this book!
Solid and Interesting September 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Many of the economic facts in his book contradict conventional wisdom and are somewhat counter-intuitive, but you cannot deny the facts and it makes me realize how little I really understand about economics.
In this election year it is interesting about how much bad economic policy is being spewed out by politicians on both sides of the aisle. Every politician should read this book....however, good economic policy is rarely popular since in many cases it is counter-intuitive.
Pete.
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