Basic Economics, Fourth Edition: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

The work of a master, both one of the best economists around, and a great professor, who knows how to explain economy to all kinds of readers.

Worried it would be too high-brow but it is clear simple, concise, and well informed. So pleased I bought it.

A very easy to read book for anyone who wants to give themselves a basic understanding of economics. It is very lengthy but very informative. For people like myself who have little or no understanding of economics I found this to be a very good & indepth primer.Do not be put off by its length.

Trade this book in?No chance - its brilliant, and I want to read it again, probably more than once.Thomas Sowell is not just insightful, wise and clever, he has a gift for putting forward complex ideas in the most concise and accurate terms, and makes a dry subject fascinating and even at times funny.

AN excellent book from Mr Thomas Sowell.Excellent writer, very prolific, well documented and with an excellent sense of pointing out the truth.

Brilliant. Clearly stating how economics actually works rather than how many people wished it worked. Thomas Sowell is a great popular writer.

Everyone needs to know at least as much about economics as this excellent, concise book contains. So much political idiocy would be avoided!

This book gives a good overview into the general principles of economics, and how markets can work to create wealth. In that, it does a reasonable job.However, there are two issues I have with the book: - The first is the desperate desire to "sell" free-market economics, based on anecdote, and with negative coverage of all forms of regulation or alternative economic models - The second is the amount of time the author spends talking about how important economics is, how it is vital that people use it to solve the worlds problems (or rather, use it to realise that they can't). I'd much rather he talking about economic theories and models!