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Summary Sowell argues that intellectuals, whom he defines as people whose occupations deal primarily with ideas (writers, historians, academics, etc.), usually consider themselves as "anointed", or as endowed with superior intellect or insight with which to guide the masses and those who have authority over them.
- Thomas Sowell
- 416
- 2010
- January 5, 2010
10. Dez. 2009 · Intellectuals and Society is about the sources and rationalization of the ideas of intellectuals, the way their ideas are propagated, why they are so often wrong, and the effects of the ideas on the world.
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Thomas Sowell has written an insightful book, but Intellectuals and Society is riven by a fundamental tension. On the one hand, intellectuals wrongly view the free market as a zero-sum game. “Among the consequences of the economic illiteracy of most intellectuals is the zero-sum vision of the economy . . . in which the gains of one individual ...
- ix, 398
- David Gordon; Ludwig von Mises Institute
- New York: Basic Books, 2009
Intellectuals and Society not only examines the track record of intellectuals in the things they have advocated but also analyzes the incentives and constraints under which their views and visions have emerged.
2. Sept. 2016 · Intellectuals and Society. September 2, 2016. “There has probably never been an era in history when intellectuals have played a larger role in society than the era in which we live. When those who generate ideas, the intellectuals proper, are surrounded by a wide penumbra of those who disseminate those ideas – whether as journalists ...
6. März 2012 · Intellectuals and Society not only examines the track record of intellectuals in the things they have advocated but also analyzes the incentives and constraints under which their views...
8. Sept. 2010 · By “intellect” Sowell means “the capacity to grasp and manipulate complex ideas.”. Intellect forms only part of “intelligence,” a term encompassing “judgment and care in selecting relevant explanatory facts and in establishing empirical tests of any theory that emerges.”. A bright college sophomore’s intellect ought ...
