Great Books
The Thomas Sowell Reader
Fifty years of an argument, in pieces. The best way to find out whether you want to spend the next decade reading Thomas Sowell.
Discrimination and Disparities
Sowell's late, spare book against the assumption almost every modern argument about inequality begins with: that outcomes would be roughly even if nobody had interfered.
On Classical Economics
Before he was a columnist, Sowell was a historian of economic thought, and this is the work of that first career. A fifty-year argument with the men who invented the...
The Indispensable Milton Friedman
Twenty essays by the economist who won most of the twentieth century's arguments, and then watched part of his own programme quietly abandoned.
Basic Economics
Seven hundred pages of economics with no graphs, no equations and no jargon. It is also an argument, and the cover does not tell you that.
A Conflict of Visions
Why the people who disagree with you about crime also disagree with you about war, taxes and judges. Sowell's answer is that these were never separate arguments.