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الاقتصاد التطبيقي
موضوع هذا الكتاب هو تطبيق علم الاقتصاد على المشاكل الرئيسية المعاصرة في عالم الواقع؛ مثل الإسكان، والرعاية الصحية، والتمييز، والنمو الاقتصادي للشعوب. فالكتاب يعالج المشاكل السابقة وغيرها مباشرةً مستخدمًا لغة واضحة سهلة، تختلف عن اللغة الاصطلاحية المعتادة لرجال الاقتصاد. إنه يختبر السياسات الاقتصادية ليس فقط في ضوء نتائجها الفورية المباشرة ببساطة، وإنما أيضًا في ضوء آثارها وانعكاساتها اللاحقة، التي تكون عادةً شديدة الاختلاف، دائمة التأثير.
أما التفاعل بين السياسة والاقتصاد، فهو الموضوع الآخر الذي يتناوله كتاب «الاقتصاد التطبيقي»، وقد استُلهمت الأمثلة على هذا الموضوع من تجارب في مختلف أرجاء العالم، بحيث تثبت كيف تؤدي الحوافز والقيود المتشابهة إلى نتائج متشابهة، حتى مع الشعوب شديدة التباين، ذات الثقافات المختلفة.
أما التفاعل بين السياسة والاقتصاد، فهو الموضوع الآخر الذي يتناوله كتاب «الاقتصاد التطبيقي»، وقد استُلهمت الأمثلة على هذا الموضوع من تجارب في مختلف أرجاء العالم، بحيث تثبت كيف تؤدي الحوافز والقيود المتشابهة إلى نتائج متشابهة، حتى مع الشعوب شديدة التباين، ذات الثقافات المختلفة.
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Thomas Sowell
90 books5,636 followersThomas Sowell is an American economist, social philosopher, and political commentator. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he became a well-known voice in the American conservative movement as a prominent black conservative. He was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush in 2002.
Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina and grew up in Harlem, New York City. Due to poverty and difficulties at home, he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and worked various odd jobs, eventually serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. Afterward, he took night classes at Howard University and then attended Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1958. He earned a master's degree in economics from Columbia University the next year and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968. In his academic career, he held professorships at Cornell University, Brandeis University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also worked at think tanks including the Urban Institute. Since 1977, he has worked at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy.
Sowell was an important figure to the conservative movement during the Reagan era, influencing fellow economist Walter E. Williams and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He was offered a position as Federal Trade Commissioner in the Ford administration, and was considered for posts including U.S. Secretary of Education in the Reagan administration, but declined both times.
Sowell is the author of more than 45 books (including revised and new editions) on a variety of subjects including politics, economics, education and race, and he has been a syndicated columnist in more than 150 newspapers. His views are described as conservative, especially on social issues; libertarian, especially on economics; or libertarian-conservative. He has said he may be best labeled as a libertarian, though he disagrees with the "libertarian movement" on some issues, such as national defense.
Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina and grew up in Harlem, New York City. Due to poverty and difficulties at home, he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and worked various odd jobs, eventually serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. Afterward, he took night classes at Howard University and then attended Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1958. He earned a master's degree in economics from Columbia University the next year and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968. In his academic career, he held professorships at Cornell University, Brandeis University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also worked at think tanks including the Urban Institute. Since 1977, he has worked at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy.
Sowell was an important figure to the conservative movement during the Reagan era, influencing fellow economist Walter E. Williams and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He was offered a position as Federal Trade Commissioner in the Ford administration, and was considered for posts including U.S. Secretary of Education in the Reagan administration, but declined both times.
Sowell is the author of more than 45 books (including revised and new editions) on a variety of subjects including politics, economics, education and race, and he has been a syndicated columnist in more than 150 newspapers. His views are described as conservative, especially on social issues; libertarian, especially on economics; or libertarian-conservative. He has said he may be best labeled as a libertarian, though he disagrees with the "libertarian movement" on some issues, such as national defense.
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