Thomas Sowell

In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives....

A Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public figures.

Social Justice Fallacies reveals how many things that are thought to be true simply cannot stand up to documented facts, which are often the opposite of what is widely believed....

This explosive new audiobook challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans and Nazis, about slavery, and about education....

Thomas Sowell’s many writings on the history of economic thought have appeared in a number of scholarly journals and books, and these writings have been praised, reprinted, and translated in various countries around the world.

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....

Say's Law—the idea that "supply creates its own demand"—has been a basic concept in economics for almost two centuries.

The role of intellectuals in racial strife is here explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light....

Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist....

A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage, and multiculturalism....

This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times....

The underlying concern of these essays is about what these very different kinds of cases say about the general direction of American society....

Using an international framework, Sowell analyzes how much a racial group’s economic fate is determined by the surrounding society....

The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years....

Applied Economics is an accessible guide to how our economic decisions develop....

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. Sowell is a leading conservative economist....

Thomas Sowell provides us with a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups....

Learning economics should be not only a relaxed experience but also an enjoyable one....

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....

An eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action in a provocative book that stirred fresh debate about this vitally important issue when it was published in 2005.