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Knowledge and Decisions
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Knowledge and Decisions

by Thomas Sowell

Recommended by Steven Pinker

Recommended by Steven Pinker

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Finance, and Politics.

With a new preface by the author, this reissue of Thomas Sowell's classic study of decision making updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Annointed, Sowell, one of America's most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. He warns that socie...

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