> My one criticism is that sometimes he ignores oppositional arguments where I think he should address them. Yes, that's because Thomas Sowell skews libertaria

> My one criticism is that sometimes he ignores oppositional arguments where I think he should address them. Yes, that's because Thomas Sowell skews libertarian as mentioned by another commenter elsewhere in the thread. I think this Amazon review [0] and a few others did a decent job of mentally preparing me wrt Sowell's biases before I committed to reading his very well-written book. It's essentially a caveat that there are quite a range of economic views out there but Basic Economics only exposes you to the economic view which he considers worthy of his time. Regardless, Sowell does an excellent job of clearly expounding on what constitutes economic thinking. [0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3RFDB6MCBI1BI/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0465002609 https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3RFDB6MCBI1BI/re...