Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

Combining reason and common sense with statistical evidence, Sowell once again cuts through the stereotypes, popular mythology, and "mush" surrounding the critical issues facing the American social, economic, political, legal, racial, and education scenes.

About the author

Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among his published works are Basic Economics, Late Talking Children, and Race and Culture. He has also published in both academic journals and the popular media including Newsweek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and 150 newspapers that carry his nationally syndicated column.

Summary

A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage and multiculturalism.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Sowell
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9780817995829
• ISBN: 978-0-8179-9582-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 17 mm x 227 mm
• Weight: 398 g
• Series: Hoover Institution Press Publication; Hoover Institution Press Publi; Hoover Institution Press Publi; Hoover Institution Press Publication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas