02537cam a2200337 4500 598302714 TxAuBib 20220602120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781541698710 1541698711 B01DWW2F32 Amazon c1950e05-057f-42f2-982e-e15ea7cba7c0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2667822 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Sowell, Thomas. Wealth, Poverty and Politics [OverDrive]. Basic Books, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 863kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 863kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Politics. HTML:In <i>Wealth, Poverty, and Politics</i>, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the <i>production</i> of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth production factors such as geography, demography, and culture.<br /> Sowell contends that liberals have a particular interest in misreading the data and chastises them for using income inequality as an argument for the welfare state. Refuting Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and others on the left, Sowell draws on accurate empirical data to show that the inequality is not nearly as extreme or sensational as we have been led to believe.<br /> Transcending partisanship through a careful examination of data, <i>Wealth, Poverty, and Politics</i> reveals the truth about the most explosive political issue of our time. Nonfiction. Business. Sociology. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-31 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c1950e05-057f-42f2-982e-e15ea7cba7c0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c1950e05-057f-42f2-982e-e15ea7cba7c0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c1950e05-057f-42f2-982e-e15ea7cba7c0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)