An edition of Basic economics (2000)

Basic economics

a citizens guide to the economy

Rev. and enlarged ed.
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An edition of Basic economics (2000)

Basic economics

a citizens guide to the economy

Rev. and enlarged ed.
  • 3.9 (7 ratings) ·
  • 184 Want to read
  • 12 Currently reading
  • 11 Have read

"Why are homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks of New York in the winter, when the abandoned apartment buildings in the city have four times as many dwelling units as there are homeless people in the city? Why are people hungry in Moscow when there are vast amounts of some of the richest farmland on the continent of Europe within easy driving distance?

Why did unemployment reach 25 percent and American corporations as a whole operate in the red for two years in a row during the Great Depression of the 1930s?".

"All these very different - but equally puzzling and needless - tragedies grew out of a failure to understand and apply basic economic principles. Explaining these principles for the general public in plain English, with neither graphs nor equations nor jargon, is the goal and the achievement of Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.

Professor Sowell has taught economics at leading colleges and universities across the country and now uses his years of experience to bring economics to light in a way that is both easy to absorb and hard to forget.".

"His lively examples are drawn from around the world and from centuries of history, because the basic principles of economics are not limited to modern capitalist societies and apply even to situations where no money changes hands, such as caring for wounded soldiers on a battlefield. The focus of Basic Economics is not on how individuals make money but on how whole societies create prosperity or poverty for their peoples by the way they organize their economies.

Prosperous countries with few natural resources, such as Japan and Switzerland, are as common as poor countries with rich resources, such as Russia or Mexico."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
438

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Table of Contents

What is economics?
Prices and markets
Industry and commerce
Work and pay
Time and risk
The national economy
The international economy
Special economic issues.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York, NY

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330
Library of Congress
HB171 .S713 2003, HB171 .S713 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
438

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3676257M
Internet Archive
basiceconomicsnd00sowe
ISBN 10
0465081452
LCCN
2003013778
OCLC/WorldCat
52471611
Library Thing
124793
Goodreads
3023

First Sentence

"To know what economics is, we must first know what an economy is."

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