This is a book about intellectuals written for the lay person. Its purpose is to unravel the world of intellectuals in order to understand an important social phenomenon how the thinkers of our society mold that society, leaving an im...

In 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 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...

A 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 econo...

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 ...

The 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...