In Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics. These fallacies include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as fallacies about urban problems, income differences, male-female economic differences, as well as economic fallacies about academia, about race, and about Third World countries.
Sowell shows that fallacies are not simply crazy ideas but in fact have a certain plausibility that gives them their staying power--and makes careful examination of their flaws both necessary and important.
Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has published both in academic journals and in such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fortune, and writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.
身在学校,先看了关于学校的那一章,能引起对现状的一些思考和认识。一直认为学校是最有知识和文化的地方,也一直觉得老师和教授的神圣等。但是学校混迹久了产生了疑惑,很多时候科研总是滞后于企业的现实,科研讲究所谓创新而并不注重应用,评价体系看论文看项目,老师们普遍...
评分谬误并不仅仅是一些狂热的观念,它们常常富有“道理”而又看似逻辑严谨,只不过是忽略了一些因素。谬误的“头头是道”为自己赢得了政治上得的支持。如果这种政治支持足够强大,并最终将这些错误的观念上升为国家政策或政府计划时,谬误所忽略的那些因素就会引发“难以预料...
评分谬误并不仅仅是一些狂热的观念,它们常常富有“道理”而又看似逻辑严谨,只不过是忽略了一些因素。谬误的“头头是道”为自己赢得了政治上得的支持。如果这种政治支持足够强大,并最终将这些错误的观念上升为国家政策或政府计划时,谬误所忽略的那些因素就会引发“难以预料...
评分阅读托马斯·索维尔的《被掩盖的经济真相——辨识最平常经济现象的真实与谬误》,是一次美妙的精神旅程,跟随作者的脚步,分析经济现象的实质,领悟科学思维的精髓。 读完后,我想起爱因斯坦的一句话,大意是,现代科学在两个来源,一是古希腊的形式逻辑,二是近代兴...
评分身在学校,先看了关于学校的那一章,能引起对现状的一些思考和认识。一直认为学校是最有知识和文化的地方,也一直觉得老师和教授的神圣等。但是学校混迹久了产生了疑惑,很多时候科研总是滞后于企业的现实,科研讲究所谓创新而并不注重应用,评价体系看论文看项目,老师们普遍...
我自己也算个自由市场主义者,不过这本书写的真的不怎么样,同样话题,不如看一课经济学,虽然这个名字翻译的也很kuso
评分Learn to Think twice. Keep thinking twice. Have a thing about "fallacies". 树立的论述提供了更多的思考方法和思考角度,就点攻点是有意义的,但以点推及整个论点都是没有可信度是错误的,因此书里fallacies的列举不代表说的全部都是对的,或者说可靠的。
评分耶 又读掉一本原版的~好书~~这书别读中文版,肯定觉得废话多,英文的看着还能当不错的学习……
评分耶 又读掉一本原版的~好书~~这书别读中文版,肯定觉得废话多,英文的看着还能当不错的学习……
评分我自己也算个自由市场主义者,不过这本书写的真的不怎么样,同样话题,不如看一课经济学,虽然这个名字翻译的也很kuso
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