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Books by Thomas Sowell

Charter Schools and Their Enemies

Charter Schools and Their Enemies

Winner of the 2021 Hayek Book PrizeA leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools against the teachers' unions, politicians, and liberal educators who threaten to dismantle…

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Discrimination and Disparities

Discrimination and Disparities

An enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparitiesEconomic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many…

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Wealth, Poverty and Politics

Wealth, Poverty and Politics

In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led…

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Basic Economics

Basic Economics

The bestselling citizen's guide to economicsBasic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but…

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Intellectuals and Race

Intellectuals and Race

Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in AmericaIntellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original…

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Intellectuals and Society

Intellectuals and Society

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like…

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The Thomas Sowell Reader

The Thomas Sowell Reader

A one-volume introduction to over three decades of the wide-ranging writings of one of America's most respected and cited authors These selections from the many…

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Economic Facts and Fallacies

Economic Facts and Fallacies

Thomas Sowell “both surprises and overturns received wisdom” in this indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies (The Economist)Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the…

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Dismantling America

Dismantling America

These wide-ranging essays -- on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues -- have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values…

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The Housing Boom and Bust

The Housing Boom and Bust

This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing…

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Applied Economics

Applied Economics

The application of economics to major contemporary real world problems -- housing, medical care, discrimination, the economic development of nations -- is the theme of…

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A Conflict of Visions

A Conflict of Visions

Thomas Sowell’s “extraordinary” explication of the competing visions of human nature lie at the heart of our political conflicts (New York Times)Controversies in politics arise…

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The Einstein Syndrome

The Einstein Syndrome

The Einstein Syndrome is a follow-up to Late-Talking Children, which established Thomas Sowell as a leading spokesman on the subject of late-talking children. While many…

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Conquests and Cultures

Conquests and Cultures

This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as…

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Late-Talking Children

Late-Talking Children

The painful and baffling mystery as to why some obviously bright children do not begin talking until long after the "normal" time is explored in…

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Knowledge And Decisions

Knowledge And Decisions

With a new preface by the author, this reissue of Thomas Sowell's classic study of decision making updates his seminal work in the context of…

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The Vision Of The Annointed

The Vision Of The Annointed

One of America’s pre-eminent economists offers a provocative critique of the failures of liberalism In The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas Sowell presents a devastating critique…

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Race And Culture

Race And Culture

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…

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Ethnic America

Ethnic America

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,…

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