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Economic Facts and Fallacies
by Thomas Sowell
from Basic Books
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Another Thomas Sowell great! 
As always, Sowell finds the whole truth! Now, most published statistics only use only the data that fits their agenda, but he gets to the true basic facts.
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Tendentious 
I only read the first two chapters. That was enough. I find this book is very tendentious. I know that for economists there's only liberalism and the free market. But this is the 21st century and every economist - except Sowell apparently - has accepted by now the fact that a human being is not a homo oeconomicus.
The book is well written and it's interesting to get some facts in the right order but reading the same answer to different questions again and again is very one-dimensional.
As I said,... more info
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Informative, yet easy to read
My knowledge of economics is admittedly limited, but this book was written so well that even a rookie like me could understand the concepts. Though I'm not sure I agree with every conclusion Sowell draws, the book was incredibly informative and really got me thinking. I know I will listen to reports on economic data in a whole new way! I definitely recommend this book to anyone looking to gain a better understanding of the meaning (or lack of meaning) in the statistics so often thrown our way.
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Another winner from the mind and research of black libertarian author Tom Sowell 
The Economic research herein is very good
and one can hardly doubt that Sowell's fine
friend of the libertarian feathers, George
Mason[VA]University Economic Professor Walt
Williams helped him on this. One silly revi-
ewer said that Sowell has the right questions
but not the right answers.
This book should not be considered the 'final
answer to the points raised therein. It's never
that simple. But the book definately raises the
right questions and... more info
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