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Auteur: Thomas Sowell
paperbackEngels304 blz.9780465022038
22-3-2011
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. Meer
paperbackEngels516 blz.9780465014002
1e druk
30-4-1999
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. Meer
paperbackEngels224 blz.9780684864631
31-3-2025
This is not a comforting book -- it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future. It rejects both "merit" and historical redress as principles for guiding public policy. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780300107753
11-3-2005
An eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action in a provocative book that will stir fresh debate about this vitally important... Meer
PaperbackEngels9780465089956
28-6-1996
Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Meer
GebondenEngels9780465003457
9-12-2008
Now revised and updated--the acclaimed companion volume to the hugely successful Basic Economics, by one of America's most revered economists. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780465025220
6-3-2012
Offers a critique about (but not for) intellectuals that explores their impact on public opinion, policy, and society at large. This title not only examines the track record of intellectuals in the things they have advocated but also analyzes the incentives and constraints under which their views and visions have emerged. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780465037384
4-10-1996
"With a new preface by the author, this updated reissue of Sowell's classic study describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780465081417
25-12-2002
"I have found The Einstein Syndrome filled with insight, acute observations, and fertile ideas. Meer
GebondenEngels9780465058723
12-3-2013
From one of Basic's bestselling authors, an incisive critique of the destructive role of intellectuals in shaping ideas about race. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780465067978
16-6-1995
Encompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, or genetics on the social and economic fates of minorities, nations, and civilization. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415687898
26-7-2011
First published in 1985, Thomas Sowell’s book is a crisp, lucid and commonsensical introduction to Marx’s own writings and to Marxist theory. It combines readability with intellectual rigour and distils more than a quarter of a century of Thomas Sowell’s research and thought on the philosophical and economic doctrines of Karl Marx. Meer
GebondenEngels9780465096763
6-9-2016
"[Sowell's] take on how culture, geography, politics and social factors affect how societies progress"or don't"will rile those addicted to political correctness but leave everyone else wiser. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780465002054
5-6-2007
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415688031
22-10-2012
First published in 1985, Thomas Sowell’s book is a crisp, lucid and commonsensical introduction to Marx’s own writings and to Marxist theory. It combines readability with intellectual rigour and distils more than a quarter of a century of Thomas Sowell’s research and thought on the philosophical and economic doctrines of Karl Marx. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780465020751
21-3-1983
This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups,the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans. Meer
GebondenEngels9781541603929
10-10-2023
America's leading conservative economist draws on extensive data to dismantle the progressive agenda Meer
PaperbackEngels9780817995829
1-1-1999