Ever wonder why? and other controversial essays

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Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From gun control myths to mealy mouth media to free lunch medicine, Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about with his characteristically unsparing candor.

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Full title :Ever wonder why? and other controversial essays / Thomas Sowell.

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Publication Date:©2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Hoover institution Press
Place of Publication:Stanford, Calif
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2006.

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Description:1 online resource (xv, 460 pages)

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ISBN:9780817947538, 0817947531, 9780817947583, 0817947582
oclc:ocn253604328
LC Classification:E839.5
Dewey Decimal:973.92

Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I: The Culture Wars; Ever Wonder Why?; Animal Rites; "Us" or "Them"?; Twisted History; Explaining to the Grand Kids; Human Livestock; The Wright Stuff; The Legacy of Eric Hoffer; One-Uppers versus Survival; The Equality Dogma; The Inequality Dogma; Equality, Inequality, and Fate; Hiroshima; The Tyranny of Visions; The Tyranny of Visions: Part II; The Tyranny of Visions: Part III; The Immigration Taboo; The Left Monopoly; I Beg to Disagree; 4th Estate or 5th Column?; Part II: Economic Issues; Why Economists Are Not Popular.

Housing HurdlesThe "Cost" of Medical Care; Subsidies Are All Wet; A Taxing Experience; Profits without Honor; Profits without Honor: Part II; Two Earthquakes; Peter Bauer (1915-2002); Journalists and Economics; Stock Crash Aftermath; Milton Friedman at 90; "Price Gouging" in Florida; Economic "Power"; A Relic of the Recent Past; Who Can Afford It?; Free-Lunch Medicine; Free-Lunch Medicine: Part II; Free-Lunch Medicine: Part III; Manufacturing Confusion; A Cold Shower; An Old "New Vision"; Third World Sweatshops; Third World Sweatshops: Part II; Privatizing Social Security.

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