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To honor thomas sowells welldeserved retirement from writing his invaluable weekly column for the last quarter century, i present below some of my favorite quotations from dr. A common sense guide to the economy by thomas sowell online at alibris. Schumacher, e f small is beautiful a study of economics as if people mattered 2011, random house. Truth be told, it may just be that i can read the book and still gain knowledge while. All these very different, but equally puzzling and needless, tragedies grew out of a failure to understand and apply basic economics principles. Utter ignorance and gross fallacies dominate the economic knowledge of the man on the street, thunders sowell, so he is here to right this wrong with a cleareyed introduction to the dismal science, free of bell. Thomas sowell is one of the fine scholars of our time. If the agreement with mexico receives congressional approval, michigans auto. This revised edition of applied economics is about fifty percent larger than the first edition. I shouldve read it years ago, since it would have peaked my interest in money matters a bit more. He has taught economics at universities around the country and is the rose and milton friedman senior fellow on public policy at the hoover institution, stanford university.
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