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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

by Thomas Sowell

Published for the first time: 1/1/1995

320 pages, Paperback

Genres: Society, Economics, Sociology, History, Politics, Nonfiction, Philosophy

One of America’s pre-eminent economists offers a provocative critique of the failures of liberalismIn The Vision of the Anointed , Thomas Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects have led to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies. In this book, he describes how elites—the anointed—have replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the course of our social policy.

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