This is a brilliant book. Sowell illuminates how every society operates. In the process he also shows how the performance of our own society can be improved.
                                                        
Milton Friedman


In a wholly original manner [Sowell] succeeds in translating abstract and theoretical argument into a highly concrete and realistic discussion of the central problems of contemporary economic policy.
                                                        
F. A. Hayek

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