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It distinguishes between those with the constrained vision, which sees human nature as enduring and selfcentered, and the unconstrained vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. His many works on the economics of immigration, culminating in. Thomas sowell a conflict of visions thomas sowell released in 1987 an interesting book. As idealism clashes with realism, we have the conflict between platos vision and that of aristotle. Interests, he says, are articulated by people who know what their. Nov 04, 2008 sowell describes the critical differences between interests and visions. Sowell is an economist, newspaper columnist and fellow at the hoover institution. Thomas sowell a conflict of visions animated summary.
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