A review by erinalexdocx
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell

2.0

Essentially a capitalist manifesto - less an explanation of basic economics than an essay on why free-market capitalism is supposedly the best economic system under any circumstances. Anecdotal in its arguments (also dismissive of “emotional” understandings of economics but then utilises the story of Henry Ford walking into Detroit to find a job and then becoming a millionaire to perpetuate the emotional and false myth of the American dream) and repetitive in places. Focuses almost solely on twentieth-century American contexts. Did help me understand some of the thinking behind advocacy of free-market capitalism but too biased and narrowly-focused to be a truly useful guide to economics.