

Intellectuals and Society
Author: Thomas Sowell
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Unabridged: 11 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/05/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science
Author: Thomas Sowell
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Unabridged: 11 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/05/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science
Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University. He has been published in both academic journals and such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fortune and writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.
This is a strange book. It's an intellectual speaking out against his profession. Sowell defines intellectuals as a people for whom ideas are the beginning and ending of their work. Tenured professors are the most ready example, but intellectuals can also be found outside academia. For example autho......more