Economic Facts and Fallacies

Review "From one of America's most noted conservative economists, a short, original book that offers some unconventional ideas about how to think about common economic topics."-- "Baltimore Sun""Sowell marshals his arguments with admirable clarity and authority. There is not a chapter in which he does not produce a statistic that both surprises and overturns received wisdom."-- "Economist""Sowell's book dismantles many of the pervasive fallacies running rampant in politics today, broken into categories of urban life, academia, income, race, and the problems of the third world...as in his other work, Sowell makes a persuasive and powerful case, armed with a solid arsenal of statistics, numbers, and historical facts."-- "RealClearPolitics.com""This readable volume is a useful primer exposing how economics relates to the social issues that affect our country."-- "Publishers Weekly" Product Description In this lively primer, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues, including many that are widely disseminated in the media and by politicians. About the Author Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and the author of A Personal Odyssey, The Vision of the Anointed, Ethnic America, and several other books. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Forbes, and Fortune and are syndicated in 150 newspapers. He lives in Stanford, California.Jeff Riggenbach has narrated numerous titles for Blackstone Audio and won an AudioFile Earphones Award. An author, contributing editor, and producer, he has worked in radio in San Francisco for the last thirty years, earning a Golden Mike Award for journalistic excellence.