Thomas Sowell Audio & Video

In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics...

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

Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell University, UCLA, and Amherst College.

This book is the culmination of fifteen years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice....

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.

The author of more than a dozen books, Dr. Sowell is now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. In his newest work, Intellectuals and Society, he will discuss why so many disasters of our time have been committed by experts or intellectuals.

One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, sharing his entertaining and thought-provoking insights on a wide range of contentious subjects.

These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues....

The nationally bestselling author of Race and Culture and Inside America presents a devastating examination of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years, whose defects have led to crises on education, crime, and family dynamics.

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.