

Controversial Essays
Author: Thomas Sowell
Narrator: Leon Nixon
Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 07/04/2023
Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, Political Economy, Public Policy
Author: Thomas Sowell
Narrator: Leon Nixon
Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 07/04/2023
Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, Political Economy, Public Policy
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.
A compilation of newspaper columns written by Dr. Sowell in the 1980s and 1990s; brilliant snapshots of how bad things happen when people fail to use common sense.......more
The writing style is crisp and refreshingly straightforward. As a reader more to the left, I found a surprising number of convincing points and solid arguments made in between the ones that are problematic and dated. The short random chapter of random reflections at the end was highly entertaining.......more