Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition

Thomas Sowell's indispensable examination of the most popular economic fallacies
In Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics. These fallacies include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as fallacies about urban problems, income differences, male-female economic differences, as well as economic fallacies about academia, about race, and about Third World countries.
Sowell shows that fallacies are not simply crazy ideas but in fact have a certain plausibility that gives them their staying power--and makes careful examination of their flaws both necessary and important.

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• Black Rednecks and White Liberals
• Basic Economics
• Trickle Down Theory and Tax Cuts for the Rich
• Wealth, Poverty and Politics
• The Quest for Cosmic Justice
• Intellectuals and Society
• A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
• The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
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