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A Conflict of Visions is a book by Thomas Sowell. It was originally published in 1987; a revised edition appeared in 2007. [1] Sowell's opening chapter attempts to answer the question of why the same people tend to be political adversaries in issue after issue, when the issues vary enormously in subject matter and sometimes hardly seem ...
- Thomas Sowell
- 1987
Jun 5, 2007 · In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America.
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Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions details the role of two alternative worldviews, the constrained and unconstrained vision, and their impact on political discourse; exemplified by Adam Smith, the constrained vision accepts a given man’s inherent limitations and argues for the importance of positive trade-offs and the process in shaping ...
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Examining the views of thinkers who reflect these constrained (Adam Smith) and unconstrained (William Godwin) visions, Sowell shows how these powerful and subjective visions give rise to carefully constructed social theories.
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Jan 1, 1987 · Shows how social theorists--from William Godwin and Adam Smith in the eighteenth century to John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman in the twentieth--have based their thinking on two irreconcilable premises: the constrained and unconstrained vision.
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Jun 7, 2022 · A conflict of visions : ideological origins of political struggles. by. Sowell, Thomas, 1930-. Publication date. 2007. Topics. Social values, Ideology. Publisher. New York, NY : Basic Books.
Learn how two competing visions of human nature and society shape political struggles in this classic work by Thomas Sowell. The book analyzes the "constrained" and the "unconstrained" visions and their implications for reason, justice, equality, and power.
