Knowledge And Decisions
by Thomas Sowell
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Author: Thomas SowellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-10-03
ISBN: 0465037380
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Basic Books
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Summary: 5 Stars
Thomas Sowell - brilliant, blunt, relentlessly honest - is a great wrecker of "enlightened" platitudes, the ideas one finds in newsrooms and faculty lounges, or wherever the "deep thinkers" of the Left come to celebrate their own originality and superior wisdom. Using economics as a scalpal - or a wrecking bar - Sowell shows that much of the "60's Liberal" talk about what's wrong with America - the word "discrimination" is often heard - is little more than bad statistics. Even worse, the remedies Liberals propose - e.g. affirmative action, AFDC, etc. - are ineffective and unfair, or worse, by setting up perverse incentives, actually help create the "diseases" they pretend to cure. If Sowell were white, he would have been tagged as a "racist" long ago. But he's black and grew up poor and even had a brief flirtation with Marxism - before becoming what he has been for the last 50 years - the Left's worst nightmare, a tirelessly prolific "conservative" author whose genius is to make deep thinking seem like common sense.
"Knowledge and Decisions", a complex treatise of some 400 pages, is Sowell's least approachable book, but one that is certainly worth the effort of reading.
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