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.

Sowell has pioneered a new approach for determining how much of a racial group’s economic fate has been determined by its surrounding society and how much by internal patterns that follow the same group around the world.

Thomas Sowell provides us with a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups: Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.

It’s a myth that Karl Marx’s economic theories are too difficult to grasp.

Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell’s education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist.

By preferential policies Thomas Sowell means government-mandated preferences for govern-ment-designated groups, policies that legally mandate that individuals not all be judged by the same criteria or subjected to the same procedures.

Peter Robinson speaks with Thomas Sowell about his new book Economic Facts and Fallacies in which Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues.