Economic Facts and Fallacies
出版社
出版时间
2011-03-22
ISBN
9780465022038
评分
★★★★★
书籍介绍
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.
AI导读
核心看点
- 拆解媒体与政客的流行经济谬误
- 无需专业背景，用常识揭示真相
- 涵盖城市、种族、性别等多元议题
适合谁读
- 对经济学感兴趣的普通大众
- 希望提升批判性思维能力的读者
- 自由市场理念与理性思考爱好者
读前提醒
- 建议阅读英文原版以获最佳体验
- 需结合美国社会背景理解部分案例
- 关注其分析方法而非全盘接受观点
读者共识
- 文笔通俗，用简单语言讲清复杂道理
- 观点犀利，有效粉碎各种陈腐观念
- 部分读者认为内容略显单薄或启发有限
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "Fallacies are not simply crazy ideas. They are usually both plausible and logical--but with something missing."
- "(Toll) This happened despite the fact that the city was growing during these years and the number of cars in Singapore tripled. As in other times and places, incentives changed behavior."
- "Of the chief executive officers of the 50 largest American corporations surveyed in 2006, only four had Ivy League degrees and just over half graduated from state colleges, city colleges, or a community college."
- "In economics, 'costs' usually refer to the inherent or lowest cost of producing a given quantity and quality of goods and services. Otherwise, any outlays of money, whether caused by inefficiency, irresponsibility, or corruption, would be counted as production costs. But, as already noted, there are"
- "While the results of some research is valuable to society at large, many knowledgeable poeple inside and outside the academic world have complained that much----perhaps most-----of the research is of little value to anyone beyond those who must pad their resumes to advance their careers."
- "Mark Twain said that there are three kinds of lies---'lies, damned lies, and statistics.'"
- "Although one person's income maybe a hundred or a thousand times greater than another's, it is of course very doubtable that one person is a hundred or a thousand times more intelligent or works a hundred or a thousand times as hard. But, again, input is not the measure of value. Results are."
- "It is especially important to scrutinize the evidence because many individuals and organizations have a vested interest in claiming credit for progress, and incessantly repeated claims can sometimes be mistaken for facts."
作者简介
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.
用户评论
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！
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
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……
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。
索维尔是个超大号的陈腐粉碎机。陈腐的概念，并不等于是老旧的，也可以是看似光鲜的正义的，从而被许多人不假思索接受的那一类。索维尔的本事，是他能把简单的道理用简单的语言讲得简单明了，使陈腐在 common sense 面前倾刻瓦解。
只能说有点启发，但不多。名头很大，东西挺少。对部分观点有质疑。
城市是否真的过于拥挤？工业社会污染真的更严重吗？城市规划是不是愚行？贫民窟是犯罪的温床？谁是高房价的罪魁祸首？政府强迫银行给穷人贷款是帮了他们还是害了他们？银行对于少数族裔是否有歧视？美国社会中，黑人、女姓是否受到雇主的歧视？学校公立化、教授终身制是有利于学术自由，还是造成了极大量的资源浪费？社会正义、人权、福利、环保、动物保护这些话语听起来很美，但托马斯·索维尔以经济学的眼光、大量的数据和事实证明了这些看起来高贵的目标无一不造成了严重的后果，再次证明了哈耶克的明言：“通往地狱的道路，往往由善意铺就”
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