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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Writing in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics, thomas sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues, including many that are widely disseminated in the media and. This revised edition of applied economics is about fifty. Sowell concludes, therefore, that politicians tend to choose policies that offer quick benefits, even if large costs come later. Basic economics has been written with the thought that learning economics should be not only a relaxed experience but also an enjoyable one. I am a biochemist and a patent attorney, and i consider myself an environmentalist. Thomas sowell describes economics as thinking beyond stage oneconsidering the later consequences of present policies.
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