This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and the even more...
b*Winner of the 1980 Law and Economics Center Prize/b 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. Sow...
Just in time for the Fall elections comes a pointed and polemical primer from the columns of Thomas Sowell. From the introduction: ''That Barack Obama in office has often done the exact opposite of what Barack Obama said as a cand...
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond St...
Thomas SowellMany 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 Inst...
Race and Culture: A World View
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell is one of America's leading voices on matters of race and ethnicity. In his book, Inside American Education, he surveyed the ills of American education from the primary grades to graduate school with ''an impressive rang...
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Cong...
Thomas SowellThe nationally bestselling author of Race and Culture and Inside America presents a devastating examination of the mindset behind the failed social policies of past years, whose defects have led to crises in education, crime, and fami...
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Or...
Thomas SowellIn this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and self...
Applied Economics, Second edition: Th...
Thomas SowellApplied 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...
Basic Economics, Fourth Edition: A Co...
Thomas SowellA fully revised (4th) edition of the classic introduction to economics from Thomas Sowell, one of America's leading economists. The fourth edition of Basic Economics is both expanded and updated. A new chapter on the history of ec...
Charter Schools and Their Enemies
Thomas SowellA leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools against the teachers' unions, politicians, and liberal educators who threaten to dismantle their success. The black-white educational achievement gap--so much discus...
From conservative intellectual and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Sowell comes a thorough discussion of income equality and the production of wealth. In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost cons...