Controversial essays / / Thomas Sowell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809512103321
• Autore: Sowell Thomas <1930->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, CA, : Hoover Institution Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0-8179-2993-2; 0-8179-2998-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.92
• Soggetti: African Americans - Social conditions - 1975-; Minorities - United States - Social conditions; United States Politics and government 1989-; United States Race relations; United States Social conditions 1980-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I: Economic Issues; Drugs and Politics; The Real Revolutionaries; India Unbound; Capital Gains and "Trickle Down"; No Sense of Proportion; Headline News; Warrior in a 200-Year War; The Role of the Rich; Perennial Economic Fallacies; Sweatshops at Home and Abroad; Sanity in San Francisco; The End of Montgomery Ward; "Saving" Social Security; Social Security vs. Privatization; Minimum Journalism; Merit and Money; Part II: Racial Issues; Routine Cruelty; Losing the Race; Reparations for Slavery?; The Lessons of Indonesia; Blacks and Bootstraps "Racism" in Word and Deed; Sweeping Success Under the Rug; Sorting By Race; The Magic Word; Race and the New Century; "Access" to Responsibility; Part III: Political Issues; Poverty and the Left; "Useful Idiots"; Facts versus Dogma on Guns; Global Hot Air; "Campaign Finance Reform" Follies; Ugliness in Yosemite; State Stealing; Loving Enemies; Microsoft and Campaign Finance Reform; Lying Statistics; Are We Still Americans?; Pacifism and War; Intended Consequences; Islam and the West; Pandering to the Anointed; Green Bigots versus Human Beings; Another Outrage; The Best of the Century Part IV: Educational Issues; The Wrong Filter; ; Too Many Ph.D.'s?; "No Excuses"; Back Door Quotas; We Are All "Dropouts"; School to School?; The War Against Boys; "Research" Marches On; Let's Hear It for Unfairness!; Does It Add Up?; Diversity versus "Diversity"; Choosing A College; A Painful History; "Forced to Volunteer"; Drugging Children; Goodbye to Sara and Benjamin?; Success Concealing Failure; The Old Neighborhood; Wasting Minds; The "Non-Profit" Halo; Do Facts Matter?; Do Facts Matter? Part II; Part V: Legal Issues; Property Rites; Love Those Killers!; Microsoft and Anti-Trust "Law"Lessons Not Learned; Law on Trial; Aborted Knowledge; Murder is Murder; McVeigh and the Death Penalty; Part VI: Social Issues; Boomers and Boomerangs; Deep Trouble from Shallow People; Thanksgiving and "Fairness"; Was the Ball Juiced?; The Dangers of "Equality"; Is the Family Becoming Extinct?; Life at the Bottom; Gay Marriage; The Einstein Syndrome; Loose Lips; "The Duty to Die"; Shocked by the Obvious; Families and Dictators; The "Autism" Dragnet; Racial Profiling of Authors; Chandra Levy Clues; Barry and the Babe; Media Fraud; The Insulation of the Left; W. Glenn Campbell (1924-2001) Part VII: Random Thoughts; Random Thoughts
• Sommario/riassunto: One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, sharing his entertaining and thought-provoking insights on a wide range of contentious subjects. --""This book contains an abundance of wisdom on a large number of economic issues."" --Mises Review