Posted on 06/10/2010 6:56:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Under $10 on Amazon in paperback or kindle edition
“Free to Choose” is a great book. I wrote a paper on it in college.
The book that reformatted my outlook in a significant way was Thomas Sowell’s “Knowledge and Decisions.”
Frederick von Hayek was an “obscure economist” according to this journo.
Googling the title can also identify "bit torrent" sites to download the complete book, for those brave enough to go that route...
Who has more book selling clout lately? Glenn or Oprah?
It is a good thing that one was written and published as well.
Is it better than Atlas Shrugged?
For all my FReeper FRiends, FRee- http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-a-m.html#letterL
“It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis- actually all of his books. Just select the titles. From Gutenburg Australia.
A plug by Beck will turn an old book into a best seller.
His new novel (out next week) would sell a million copies even if it had blank pages.
That man has a powerful microphone.
Yes, it is. Thomas Sowell is America’s greatest living intellectual - inarguably, since Milton Friedman has died.
It is almost like a religious revelation to read the analysis these great men have published. It truly changes the way a reader sees everything that happens, every issue in life.
So when will Amazon make Glenn their salesman of the year?
There’s a story about thatcher slamming down a Hayek book (not this one, I think) and saying “this is what we believe” when asked what her principles were. I’m sure I’ve read something Reagan wrote or said specifically about Hayek, too, maybe one of those radio broadcasts he wrote when he was governor.
“Witness” by Chambers should be #1.
Yeah, it’s a silly description. I don’t know about his significance as an economist but as a philosopher of liberal capitalism (i.e. free markets, rule of law etc.) he’s pretty universally considered in academia to be a very significant thinker, up there with Locke, Smith, etc.
My first Thomas Sowell read was "The Vision of the Annointed".
Bought 3 dozen of his basic enconmics book and gave it to 1/3 of my daughter's high school graduating class.
I picked up a copy at a garage sale that I think was printed in 1944. LOL
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More Than 50-year-old Book Is Bestseller on Amazon (The Road to Serfdom)
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“It’s Glenn Beck’s fault”
His show on “The Road To Serfdom” on Wednesday was good...I just wish
he’d had Thomas Sowell on.
His article on Hayek and his book in (IIRC) Forbes Magazine in the
early 1990s sure woke me up to the power of the book.
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