Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

by Thomas Sowell

Signed third edition

New York: Basic Books, 2007. Third edition, first printing. Signed by Thomas Sowell on the front free endpaper. viii, [2], 627. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards lettered in silver gilt on the spine. Near Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning to exposed areas.

The first edition of the seminal introduction to economics to carry the subtitle "A Common Sense Guide to the Economy" rather than "A Citizen's Guide to the Economy." Sowell is an iconic conservative thinker and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.