Thomas Sowell Bücher

Die Untersuchung beleuchtet, wie Wissen individuelle und kollektive Entscheidungen beeinflusst und welche Bedeutung es für Freiheit sowie Effizienz hat. Dabei werden grundlegende Muster in Entscheidungsprozessen analysiert. Als frühes Werk des Autors bietet es wertvolle Einsichten und ist das erste, das ins Deutsche übersetzt wurde.

Reveals the general principles behind any kind of economy such as capitalist, socialist, feudal and others. This book shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the goals they proclaim. It provides explanations ranging from rent control to the international balance of payments.

A searching re-examination of the assumptions, and the evidence for and against, current approaches to issues of economic and other disparities

[Sowell's] take on how culture, geography, politics and social factors affect how societies progressor don'twill rile those addicted to political correctness but leave everyone else wiser.-Forbes

Explains why fallacies abound in economic thinking and why they have such political staying power. This title describes the essential types of fallacies - the zero-sum fallacy, which assumes that one person's gain is another's equal loss; the 'fallacy of composition', the assumption that what is true of the part is true of the whole; and, more.

These selections from the many writings of Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell's letters, books, and newspaper columns, to articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines.

A leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools against the teachers' unions, politicians and liberal educators who threaten to dismantle their success

Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes b

Focusing on four major cultural areas, this book attempts to understand the role of cultural differences within nations and between nations in shaping the economic and social fates of peoples and of whole civilizations.