Economics
Economic Facts and Fallacies
by Thomas Sowell · 2008 · 2nd edition 2011
Destroys the most popular economic myths one by one. Short chapters, sharp writing.
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Short chapters. Each one takes something "everyone knows" and shows you why it's wrong, with data. The next time someone throws a talking point at you, you'll have the answer.
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“The combination of Lenin’s genius for propaganda and an audience receptive to his thesis allowed his theory of imperialism to be widely accepted among intellectuals, activists, and people in the Third...”
“Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for e...”
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