Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our dayThe experience of the last decade has not been kind to the image of economists: asleep at the wh...

There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Alarmingly, the greatest income gap is not between the 1 percent and the 99 percent, ...

Uri Gneezy and John List are like the anthropologists who spend months in the field studying the people in their native habitats. But in their case they embed themselves in our messy world to try and solve big, difficult problems, suc...

Before and after World War II, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity-between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian ideals of democracy. Under Roosevelt's New Deal, unio...

When Freakonomics was initially published, the authors started a blog—and they've kept it up. The writing is more casual, more personal, even more outlandish than in their books. Now, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the landm...

A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism. There’s a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects ev...

[Updated Fifth Edition] [Read by Tom Weiner] An updated edition of the classic introduction to economics from one of America's leading economists. In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular...

Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics. It is readable enough for people with no prior knowledge of economics. Y...

b[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]/bb*Winner of the 1980 Law and Economics Center Prize/b This reissue of Thomas Sowell's classic study of decision making, which includes a preface by the author, updates his seminal work in the ...