Thomas Sowell

Né en 1930 tsowell.com

Histoire

Thomas Sowell est un économiste américain, commentateur social et auteur reconnu pour sa perspective économique libérale.
Né en Caroline du Nord et élevé à Harlem, il a surmonté des défis précoces pour obtenir des diplômes de Harvard, Columbia et de l'Université de Chicago.
Sowell a enseigné l'économie dans plusieurs universités et est actuellement Senior Fellow à la Hoover Institution de l'Université de Stanford.
Il a écrit de nombreux livres et a reçu des récompenses pour ses travaux académiques, y compris la Médaille nationale des sciences humaines.
Le travail de Sowell combine souvent l'économie, l'histoire et la science politique pour analyser les questions sociales et les politiques.

Livres de Thomas Sowell

A Conflict of Visions

par Thomas Sowell • 1986

Two hidden assumptions about human nature explain every political fight.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📖 Intellectual History 🧬 Human Nature Debates ⚖️ Distributive Justice 🧠 Political Psychology

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A Conflict of Visions

Two hidden assumptions about human nature explain every political fight.

par Thomas Sowell 1986 329 pages

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📖 Intellectual History 🧬 Human Nature Debates ⚖️ Distributive Justice 🧠 Political Psychology

The Vision of the Anointed

par Thomas Sowell • 1995

Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.

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🧐 Public Policy 📢 Social Criticism 📊 Statistical Fallacies 💥 Policy Failure 🎭 Ideological Bias

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The Vision of the Anointed

Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.

par Thomas Sowell 1995 320 pages

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🧐 Public Policy 📢 Social Criticism 📊 Statistical Fallacies 💥 Policy Failure 🎭 Ideological Bias

Wealth, Poverty and Politics

par Thomas Sowell • 2015

Four forces create wealth. None of them is redistribution.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗺️ Economic Geography 🎭 Cultural Economics 📊 Income Inequality 🏥 Welfare State Critique

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Wealth, Poverty and Politics

Four forces create wealth. None of them is redistribution.

par Thomas Sowell 2015 509 pages

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗺️ Economic Geography 🎭 Cultural Economics 📊 Income Inequality 🏥 Welfare State Critique

Économie fondamentale

par Thomas Sowell • 2000

What no one teaches you about prices, profits, and the hidden sting of good intentions.

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🏛️ Free Market Economics 📘 Economic Literacy 🛒 Everyday Economics 💥 Unintended Consequences 🏫 Chicago School

Économie fondamentale

What no one teaches you about prices, profits, and the hidden sting of good intentions.

par Thomas Sowell 2000 448 pages

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🏛️ Free Market Economics 📘 Economic Literacy 🛒 Everyday Economics 💥 Unintended Consequences 🏫 Chicago School

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

par Thomas Sowell • 2005

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

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⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

par Thomas Sowell 2005 372 pages

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⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Discrimination and Disparities

par Thomas Sowell • 2018

Disparities are the norm. Discrimination explains far less than we think.

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📊 Group Disparities 🎯 Discrimination Economics 🔢 Statistical Literacy 🔄 Unintended Consequences ⚖️ Political Economy

Discrimination and Disparities

Disparities are the norm. Discrimination explains far less than we think.

par Thomas Sowell 2018 192 pages

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📊 Group Disparities 🎯 Discrimination Economics 🔢 Statistical Literacy 🔄 Unintended Consequences ⚖️ Political Economy

The Quest for Cosmic Justice

par Thomas Sowell • 1999

Justice: once impartial rules, now equal results. The change quietly costs freedom and safety.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy ⚖️ Legal Theory 🚫 Social Justice Critique 📜 Rule Of Law 🔄 Unintended Consequences

The Quest for Cosmic Justice

Justice: once impartial rules, now equal results. The change quietly costs freedom and safety.

par Thomas Sowell 1999 224 pages

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🏛️ Political Philosophy ⚖️ Legal Theory 🚫 Social Justice Critique 📜 Rule Of Law 🔄 Unintended Consequences

Social Justice Fallacies

par Thomas Sowell • 2023

Before you remake society for fairness, check the facts. They rarely support the theory.

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📋 Public Policy Critique 🔄 Unintended Consequences 📊 Statistical Fallacies 👥 Group Differences 🧠 Knowledge Problem

Social Justice Fallacies

Before you remake society for fairness, check the facts. They rarely support the theory.

par Thomas Sowell 2023 225 pages

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📋 Public Policy Critique 🔄 Unintended Consequences 📊 Statistical Fallacies 👥 Group Differences 🧠 Knowledge Problem

Civil Rights

par Thomas Sowell • 1984

The assumption that unequal outcomes prove discrimination is false, and its policies backfire.

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🧨 Civil Rights Critique 💰 Race And Economics ⚖️ Affirmative Action Debate 🌍 Cultural Explanations 🗳️ Public Choice Theory

Civil Rights

The assumption that unequal outcomes prove discrimination is false, and its policies backfire.

par Thomas Sowell 1984 164 pages

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🧨 Civil Rights Critique 💰 Race And Economics ⚖️ Affirmative Action Debate 🌍 Cultural Explanations 🗳️ Public Choice Theory

Conquests and Cultures

par Thomas Sowell • 1998

Geography blocked Africa, conquests lifted Britain, and human capital explains the gap.

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🌍 Comparative History 💰 Economic History 🧠 Human Capital 🏔️ Geographic Determinism 🔄 Cultural Diffusion

Conquests and Cultures

Geography blocked Africa, conquests lifted Britain, and human capital explains the gap.

par Thomas Sowell 1998 512 pages

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🌍 Comparative History 💰 Economic History 🧠 Human Capital 🏔️ Geographic Determinism 🔄 Cultural Diffusion

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