Negative Space: Thomas Sowell
- Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy
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Economics is an important topic, because unlike every other complex field, “from botany to brain surgery”, we cannot avoid taking part: while we can, and usually should, refuse to perform brain surgery, we should not refuse to vote for politicians (and, in some states, initiatives) that have wide-ranging economic effects.
- Intellectuals and Society
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Thomas Sowell details the verbal virtuosity by which the left tries to avoid empirical evidence.
- My job fell in the (oil) well
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Through steel tariffs, we killed tens of thousands of jobs in industries that use steel by raising the cost of steel in the United States. Now Irwin M. Stelzer wants to do the same to industries that use oil. That is, all of them. Everyone uses energy.
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- Basic Economics• (hardcover)
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This book is about being able to analyze the costs and benefits of particular economic decisions, so that results are more likely to approach goals. Too often, goals aren’t stated, or are abandoned in favor of policies that don’t reach now-abandoned goals. (Thomas Sowell)
- Do No Harm: An Interview with Thomas Sowell
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“The legendary economist talks to The Federalist about government’s most destructive economic intrusions.”
- Thomas Sowell: Legacy of the Welfare State
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“If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state.”
