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Discrimination and Disparities
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government
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Publisher's Summary
Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics. It is listenable enough for people with no prior knowledge of economics. Yet the empirical evidence with which it backs up its analysis spans the globe and challenges beliefs across the ideological spectrum.
The point of Discrimination and Disparities is not to recommend some particular policy "fix" at the end, but to clarify why so many policy fixes have turned out to be counterproductive, and to expose some seemingly invincible fallacies behind many counterproductive policies.
The final chapter deals with social visions and their human consequences.
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- Conrad
- 2019-01-19
Essential to understanding the world in all times.
Dr. Sowell does it again with his brilliant and succinct analysis and insight.
The material demands attention to follow and the narration can be a little monotonous at times (do not play while driving long distances). However the narration is eloquent and the material is... of the standard expected from the revered Dr. Sowell.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-04-19
Poignant, insightful and razor sharp.
It may be all but impossible to find a more thoughtful and rigorous scholar than Thomas Sowell. This book, being on the shorter side, is like an abridged critique of present day notions and misconceptions of statistical disparity and discrimination. I only wish it were longer.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-07-04
Socially vital analysis
A brilliant analysis of social disparities. All too frequently, social disparities are assumed to be the product of racism, exclusion or oppression.
Those who make this assumption never test this hypothesis against the evidence.
Thomas Sowell brilliantly challenges this assumption with the evidence.
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- Matt Headley
- 2021-03-11
brilliantly pragmatic
explains thruroughly how government policy must be based on objective facts. Decisions should be made by those able to feel the backlash or gain from the consequences rather than by beurocrats.
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- Ilerioluwa Oyedele
- 2021-02-08
Refreshing and Insightful
Thomas Sowell sober reading of statistics and facts in order to come to logical conclusions is a refreshing contrast to the emotional and agenda based decision making of our day. His conclusions on the failure of the welfare state are particularly insightful.
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- Kev
- 2020-12-06
outdated theories filled with strawman fallacies
sowell offers very limited details on his theories and few numbers to back up his opinions. occasionally there is indeed good evidence. 80% of time arguing against a strawman. a book that does not debate modern topics such as assets and of 0.1 vs 1%. the debate of 10% vs 90% is many of the times missing the point of a more modern issue. sowell offers very limited evidence on welfare and social services while more modern authors benefit from many additional studies. overall this book is a good background read into the economists of last century, but fail to educate a modern audience with existing knowledge of the current policies and debates.
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- Nan
- 2020-07-05
Very insightful
Very insightful views based on great research on the some of the most important issues of our society. Perhaps the most important writer of our time.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-10-20
Outstanding
Good read if you are trying to understand the world around you and why it feels so divided all the time.
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- Scott
- 2018-04-07
One of the most incisive books I have read in year
Thomas Sowell's sound rationale is the sharpest and most efficient dagger in the heart of Leftist blood guilt prescription of ethnic and sexual redress on offer.
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- Stephane
- 2018-08-06
goes off the rails
First part is interesting and informative but he then turns to his opinions ruin the whole thing.
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- Charles Abernathy
- 2019-01-14
Hard Pill To Swallow - I’m better for it
At first I was not really interested in hearing about how in the economist describe discrimination and disparities. After pushing through and re-reading, and re-reading again and again Thomas Sowell has more than one good point. It was hard pill to swallow.
I’m a Self proclaimed a liberal and this book really provided depth and some challenging conversation with myself. I’m better off pushing through and reading this book. Thomas Sowell reminds me I need to think critically and broadly and focus my efforts on the implementation science of well intentioned public policies.
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- Wayne
- 2018-03-29
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure!
87 year old economist and author Thomas Sowell, PhD, has published over 40 books and hundreds of newspaper columns. 27 of those books are available at Audible. I usually purchase all of his books in hardcover, but Discrimination and Disparities is the 4th of his books I have reviewed at Audible. He dedicates this book to 81 year old Dr. Walter E. Williams who is an economist and his ideological soulmate in the classical liberal movement.
No one writes and speaks about facts and statistics more convincingly than Thomas Sowell. Discrimination and Disparities, released this month, should be required reading for every college freshman in the US. At 5 hours it is a short read, but long enough to destroy many commonly held economic myths. Since Sowell stopped writing his newspaper columns 15 months ago, I have missed them. This book reminds me yet again of the intellectual giant that Thomas Sowell is.
Robertson Dean's narration is excellent.
I recommend this book as well as ALL of the others Thomas Sowell has written.
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- Jordan Rowan
- 2018-05-19
Highly recommend for seekers of facts
Fantastic use of evidence to show how socially engineered policies almost never give the outcomes they intend
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- @CHESSNUT
- 2018-03-08
Typical Sowell
I enjoy Thomas Sowell's books, and will probably continue buying them as long as he publishes. However, you should know what you're getting; this one doesn't offer anything you have not previously heard if you've listened to his other books; it's the same concepts, just moved around a little and wrapped in a slightly different theme. Robertson Dean's narration, is, as always, perfect.
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- Will
- 2020-06-05
A must read during this difficult time
disparities dont always mean discrimination. this key focus of the book was by far the most influential take away. history and facts riddle this amazing work
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- Andrew
- 2018-03-07
An excellent set of new insights and summation
This is an excellent addition to Sowell’s writing. It has many new, much needed, insights and analysis. He further draws on many of his prior writings and sharpens their implications. It is a powerful distillation of much of his work. He is an invaluable source of clear thinking on complex topics.
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- Alma Cook
- 2019-02-17
One of the best books I’ve ever read
Every human alive needs to read this beautifully written, nuanced exposition on statistical reasoning. It contains the most elegant, devastating criticisms of modern policy prescriptions I have ever read.
That being said, I at first thought this book was narrated by a computer. Narrator does an adequate job, but it felt somehow plastic/manipulated. This might’ve been caused by too much noise removal in post production—who knows?
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- V. Taras
- 2018-10-06
Very interesting and insightful, but not perfect
The book is filled with interesting examples, multi-angle exploration of controversial issues, eye-opening statistics.
It had a very strong and engaging opening, although towards the end, I felt, it was too much about the racial struggle in the U.S.. Not so much about disparities, as just the history of the conflict.
Still, I believe this book is a must-read and I highly recommend it.
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- Bob
- 2018-05-16
plan to buy kindle version for the statistics
fantastic thinking and commentary from sowell. I consider this a Capstone of his race and economic works to date
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- Orest
- 2018-03-13
Terrific as usual
If you were to recommend just one book by Thomas Sowell to a friend with no knowledge of his writing this might be it. Short and easy to understand, it is packed witht Thomas Sowell's wisdom and gives a comprehensive description of his outlook on the world. Highly recommend.
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