Thomas Sowell Audio & Video

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.

Newly revised and updatedthe acclaimed companion volume to the hugely successful Basic Economics, by one of Americas most revered economists.

The fourth edition of Basic Economics is both expanded and updated. Basic Economics, which has now been translated into six foreign languages, has grown so much that a large amount of material previously found in the back of the book has now been put online instead so that neither the book itself nor its price will have to expand.

Basic Economics has been written with the thought that learning economics should be not only a relaxed experience but also an enjoyable one.

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

This book starts you at square one, before you know what questions to ask, what colleges to read about, or what statistics to look up.

Armed with vast statistical research, economist Thomas Sowell deftly refutes the key assumptions on which the civil-rights movement as we know it today was erected.

Sowell’s essays paint some hard truths, which are backed by his brilliant scholarship.

Sowell explains that most people have one of two contrasting visions, “constrained” and “unconstrained,” described in terms we recognize as associated with the political Right and political Left.

These wide-ranging essays - on many individual political, economic, cultural, and legal issues - have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries.