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.
所谓谬误和悖论,无非是错误的直觉。(参见著名的辛普森悖论,问题构造和涉及的数学原理简单的令人发指,人类的直觉同样不靠谱的令人震惊) 经济生活中的数据可没有辛普森悖论中的设置那样简单,这里面暗藏更多的谬误。标题中所谓的事实(facts), 指的是统计数据。标题中的谬...
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...
评分所谓谬误和悖论,无非是错误的直觉。(参见著名的辛普森悖论,问题构造和涉及的数学原理简单的令人发指,人类的直觉同样不靠谱的令人震惊) 经济生活中的数据可没有辛普森悖论中的设置那样简单,这里面暗藏更多的谬误。标题中所谓的事实(facts), 指的是统计数据。标题中的谬...
评分所谓谬误和悖论,无非是错误的直觉。(参见著名的辛普森悖论,问题构造和涉及的数学原理简单的令人发指,人类的直觉同样不靠谱的令人震惊) 经济生活中的数据可没有辛普森悖论中的设置那样简单,这里面暗藏更多的谬误。标题中所谓的事实(facts), 指的是统计数据。标题中的谬...
评分所谓谬误和悖论,无非是错误的直觉。(参见著名的辛普森悖论,问题构造和涉及的数学原理简单的令人发指,人类的直觉同样不靠谱的令人震惊) 经济生活中的数据可没有辛普森悖论中的设置那样简单,这里面暗藏更多的谬误。标题中所谓的事实(facts), 指的是统计数据。标题中的谬...
我经常在上班时一边吃劣质外卖一边看他在townhall的专栏。。。那么为了感谢您稍微减轻了我人生的悲惨度,给您一个好评吧亲!
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
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。
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