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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 112035 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 7:47:45. |
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Read by Brian Emerson. |
| Summary |
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 problems; housing, medical care, discrimination, and the economic development of nations. Sowell's audience is the average citizen with little or no economics background who would like the tools to think critically about economic issues. |
| Contents |
Politics versus economics -- Free and unfree labor -- The economics of medical care -- The economics of housing -- Risky business -- The economics of discrimination -- The economic development of nations. |
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Economics -- Political aspects. -- Sound recordings.
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Economic policy -- Social aspects. -- Sound recordings.
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Equality. -- Sound recordings.
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Social problems. -- Sound recordings.
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Economic development. -- Sound recordings.
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Economics. -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Emerson, Brian.
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| ISBN |
0786153245 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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9780786153244 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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