Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One

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“The great achievement of Sowell’s book is its simplicity. His writing is easy and lucid,
an admirable trait considering the topic at hand.As a basic primer for the economically perplexed,
this volume serves very well.”Publishers Weekly

“Thomas Sowell is one of the wonders of the American intellectual world.”Peter Brimelow, author
of Alien Nation

This book is geared to the average citizen with little or no economics background who would like the
tools to think critically about economic issues. Many of today’s economic issues are obscured by
their inherent complexity and the often confusing and conflicting views coming from political talking
heads. Sowell, a leading conservative economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, seeks to
alleviate this confusion.

He begins by elucidating the differences between politicians, who are often compelled by political
considerations to act for the short term, and economists, who are more concerned with long-term
ramifications. Sowell then focuses on the application of economics to major contemporary real-world
problemshousing, medical care, discrimination, and the economic development of nations.

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the recipient of many awards and prizes. His previous books for Blackstone Audiobooks include: Ethnic America, Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality, A Personal Odyssey, The Economics and Politics of Race, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, and many others.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Thomas Sowell
Narrator: Brian Emerson
ISBN: 0-7861-5324-5
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Prince of the City, The: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life

Friday, July 25th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

“Siegel presents a positive but not uncritical opinion of the Giuliani record, which is
of interest in itself but especially if Giuliani runs for president.”Booklist

“The Prince of the City is a remarkable account of the Giuliani years by our best writer on urban
affairs. Anyone interested in how the dead hand of ideology came near to crippling our largest city must
read this book.”U.S. News &World Report

In the first post-9/11 account of the career of the man who established himself as “America’s Mayor” in
the dark days after America was attacked, Fred Siegel shows how Rudy Giuliani’s successes in New
York set a promising example for the rejuvenation of our major cities. Someone who has worked with
Giuliani as well as studied him, Siegel regards Giuliani as a shrewd tactician and artist of the possible
who could have stepped out of the pages of Machiavelli’s The Prince. A self-promoting,
self-absorbed man, the mayor made his enormous ego and tribal ethos serve the city’s well-being,
promoting ideals that transcended New York’s ethnic politics and business as usual. The Prince of
the City is at once a fascinating character study, a history of New York over the last forty years, and
a classic inquiry into the issue of how cities thrive or die.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Fred Siegel
Narrator: Brian Emerson
ISBN: 0-7861-5335-0
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