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Basic Economics

Thomas Sowell

  • 627 pages · about 10 hours
  • First published 2000
  • 15 editions
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1 About this book

"Why are homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks of New York in the winter, when the abandoned apartment buildings in the city have four times as many dwelling units as there are homeless people in the city?

Why are people hungry in Moscow when there are vast amounts of some of the richest farmland on the continent of Europe within easy driving distance? Why did unemployment reach 25 percent and American corporations as a whole operate in the red for two years in a row during the Great Depression of the 1930s?".

Good for readers who want: economics and a long read.

  • Economics
  • Economic conditions
  • Economic history

2 About Thomas Sowell

Born 1930

Thomas Sowell ( SOHL; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, economic historian, and social theorist. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he is a well-known voice in the American conservative movement as a prominent black conservative. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush in 2002.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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