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Interests, he says, are articulated by people who know what their interests are and what they want to do about them. Sowell has published more then a dozen books, many more then a dozen books actually. Jul 06, 2009 my excuse for not reading a conflict of visions by thomas sowell was that i had already read a fair amount of his other work, and how much new could he have to say. Even for sowell, one of the top intellectuals of our time, this book stands out as particularly important. File type pdf a conflict of visions thomas sowell a conflict of visions wikipedia 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. Ideological origins of political struggles and read a conflict of visions.
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