Explore the works of Thomas Sowell | In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths that underpin the social justice movement | This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups -- the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans. | This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. | In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. | This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. | These wide-ranging essays have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries. |
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