Economics Reading - Applied Economics

I wanted to let you know about this book if you are interested in reading about economics. Of course in the Kingdom of God http://www.gnmagazine.org/booklets/GK/, some of these laws are different, not only because of a lack of sin, but also a lack of scarcity, as it says in Genesis that mankind would have to "toil for their productivity" as a punishment for Adam's sin. Anyway, this book does talk about some of the hot button issues of our time - labor, medical care, and housing - as the Contents Listing below describes, in an easy to understand way. If you are watching the news and some of the issues are somewhat confusing, then this is a great book to read to help with your understanding. I do hope that you find this interesting.

Applied Economics by Thomas Sowell
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52251413&referer=brief_results

Contents:
Politics versus economics -- Free and unfree labor -- The economics of medical care -- The economics of housing -- Risky business -- The economics of discrimination -- The economic development of nations.

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Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. As with many others in his neighborhood, he left home early and did not finish high school. The next few years were difficult ones, but eventually he joined the Marine Corps and became a photographer in the Korean War. After leaving the service, Sowell entered Harvard University, worked a part-time job as a photographer and studied the science that would become his passion and profession: economics.
After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University (1958), he went on to receive his master's in economics from Columbia University (1959) and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago (1968).
In the early '60s, Sowell held jobs as an economist with the Department of Labor and AT&T. But his real interest was in teaching and scholarship. In 1965, at Cornell University, he began the first of many professorships. His other teaching assignments include Rutgers University, Amherst University, Brandeis University and the University of California at Los Angeles, where he taught in the early '70s and also from 1984 to 1989.
Sowell has published a large volume of writing. His dozen books, as well as numerous articles and essays, cover a wide range of topics, from classic economic theory to judicial activism, from civil rights to choosing the right college. Moreover, much of his writing is considered ground-breaking -- work that will outlive the great majority of scholarship done today.
Though Sowell had been a regular contributor to newspapers in the late '70s and early '80s, he did not begin his career as a newspaper columnist until 1984. George F. Will's writing, says Sowell, proved to him that someone could say something of substance in so short a space (750 words). And besides, writing for the general public enables him to address the heart of issues without the smoke and mirrors that so often accompany academic writing.
In 1990, he won the prestigious Francis Boyer Award, presented by The American Enterprise Institute.
Currently Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute in Stanford, Calif.