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Sowell has also written a trilogy of books on ideologies and political positions, including A Conflict of Visions, where he speaks about the origins of political strife; The Vision of the Anointed, where he compares the conservative/libertarian and liberal/progressive worldviews; and The Quest for Cosmic Justice, where, as in many of his other writings, he outlines his thesis of the need for intellectuals, politicians and leaders to fix and perfect the world in utopian, and ultimately he posits, disastrous fashions. Separate from the trilogy, but also in discussion of the subject, he wrote Intellectuals and Society, where, building on his earlier work, he discusses what he argues to be the blind hubris and follies of intellectuals in a variety of areas.  Sowell challenges the notion that black progress is due to progressive government programs or policies, in The Economics and Politics of Race, (1983), Ethnic America (1981), Affirmative Action Around the World (2004), and other books. He claims that many problems identified with blacks in modern society are not unique, either in terms of American ethnic groups, or in terms of a rural proletariat struggling with disruption as it became urbanized, as discussed in his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005).  In Affirmative Action Around the World Sowell holds that affirmative action covers most of the American population, particularly women, and has long since ceased to favor blacks.  Sowell described his serious study of Karl Marx in his autobiography. He opposes Marxism, providing a critique in his book Marxism: Philosophy and Economics (2011).  Sowell also favors decriminalization of all drugs. CANNOTANSWER
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Thomas Sowell (; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Born in North Carolina, Sowell grew up in Harlem, New York. Due to financial issues and deteriorated home conditions, he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. Upon returning to the United States, Sowell enrolled at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude in 1958. He earned a master's degree in economics from Columbia University in 1959, and earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968. 

Sowell has served on the faculties of several universities, including Cornell University, Amherst College, University of California, Los Angeles, and, currently, Stanford University. He has also worked at think tanks such as the Urban Institute. Since 1980, he has worked at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he serves as the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy. Sowell writes primarily from a libertarian perspective, though he dislikes being labelled ideologically. He is a National Humanities Medal recipient for innovative scholarship which incorporated history, economics, and political science. Sowell's conservative-and-libertarian leaning philosophy made him particularly influential to the new conservative movement during the Reagan Era, influencing fellow economist Walter Williams and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Sowell was offered the position as head of the U.S. Department of Education as Secretary of Education, but he refused to take the position. As of 2022, Sowell is the author of more than 45 books.

Early life 
Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina. His father died shortly before he was born, leaving behind Sowell's mother, a housemaid who already had four children. A great-aunt and her two grown daughters adopted Sowell and raised him. In his autobiography, A Personal Odyssey, Sowell wrote that his childhood encounters with white people were so limited that he did not know blond was a hair color. When Sowell was eight, his family moved from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Harlem, New York City, for greater opportunities, joining in the large-scale trend of African-American migration from the American South to the North.

He qualified for Stuyvesant High School, a prestigious academic high school in New York City; he was the first in his family to study beyond the sixth grade. However, he was forced to drop out at age 17 because of financial difficulties and problems in his home. Sowell held a number of positions, including one at a machine shop and another as a delivery man for Western Union; he tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948. He was drafted into the armed services in 1951, during the Korean War, and was assigned to the U.S. Marine Corps. Because of his experience in photography, Sowell became a Marine Corps photographer.

Higher education and early career 
After his honorable discharge, Sowell took a civil service job in Washington, DC and attended night classes at Howard University, an historically black college. His high scores on the College Board exams and recommendations by two professors helped him gain admission to Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. He earned a master's degree from Columbia University the following year.

Sowell has said that he was a Marxist "during the decade of my 20s"; accordingly, one of his earliest professional publications was a sympathetic examination of Marxist thought vs. Marxist–Leninist practice. However, his experience working as a federal government intern during the summer of 1960 caused him to begin to question Marxian economics theory in favor of free market economics. During his work, Sowell discovered an association between the rise of mandated minimum wages for workers in the sugar industry of Puerto Rico and the rise of unemployment in that industry. Studying the patterns led Sowell to theorize that the government employees who administered the minimum wage law cared more about their own jobs than the plight of the poor.

Sowell received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968. His dissertation was titled "Say's Law and the General Glut Controversy". Sowell had initially chosen Columbia University to study under George Stigler, who would later receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. When he learned that Stigler had moved to the University of Chicago, he followed Stigler there.

Academic career 
From 1965 to 1969, Sowell was an assistant professor of economics at Cornell University. Writing 30 years later about the 1969 seizure of Willard Straight Hall by black students at Cornell, Sowell characterized the students as "hoodlums" with "serious academic problems [who were] admitted under lower academic standards", and noted "it so happens that the pervasive racism that black students supposedly encountered at every turn on campus and in town was not apparent to me during the four years that I taught at Cornell and lived in Ithaca."

Sowell has taught economics at Howard University, Rutgers, Cornell, Brandeis University, Amherst College, and the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1980, he has been a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he holds a fellowship named after Rose and Milton Friedman, his mentor. In addition, Sowell appeared several times on William F. Buckley Jr.'s show Firing Line, during which he discussed the economics of race and privatization.

In 1987, Sowell testified in favor of federal appeals court judge Robert Bork during the hearings for Bork's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. In his testimony, Sowell said that Bork was "the most highly qualified nominee of this generation" and that what he viewed as judicial activism, a concept that Bork opposed as a self-described originalist and textualist, "has not been beneficial to minorities."

In a review of Sowell's 1987 book, A Conflict of Visions, Larry D. Nachman in Commentary magazine described Sowell as a leading representative of the Chicago school of economics.

Personal life 
Previously married to Alma Jean Parr from 1964 to 1975, Sowell married Mary Ash in 1981. He has two children, John and Lorraine.

Writings and thought 
Themes of Sowell's writing range from social policy on race, ethnic groups, education, and decision-making, to classical and Marxian economics, to the problems of children perceived as having disabilities.

Sowell had a nationally syndicated column distributed by Creators Syndicate that was published in Forbes magazine, National Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The New York Post, and other major newspapers, as well as online on websites such as RealClearPolitics, Townhall, WorldNetDaily, and the Jewish World Review. Sowell commented on current issues, which include liberal media bias; judicial activism (while defending originalism); intact dilation and extraction (commonly known and described in U.S. federal law as, partial-birth abortion); minimum wage; universal health care; the tension between government policies, programs, and protections and familial autonomy; affirmative action; government bureaucracy; gun control; militancy in U.S. foreign policy; the war on drugs; and multiculturalism. According to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Sowell was the most cited black economist between 1991 and 1995, and second most cited between 1971 and 1990.

On December 27, 2016, Sowell announced the end of his syndicated column, writing that, at age 86, "the question is not why I am quitting, but why I kept at it so long," and cited a desire to focus on his photography hobby.

A documentary detailing his career entitled "Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World" was released on January 25, 2021, by the Free to Choose Network.

Economic and political ideology 
While often described as a black conservative, Sowell said, "I prefer not to have labels, but I suspect that 'libertarian' would suit me better than many others, although I disagree with the libertarian movement on a number of things." Sowell primarily writes on economic subjects, generally advocating a free market approach to capitalism. Sowell opposes the Federal Reserve, arguing that it has been unsuccessful in preventing economic depressions and limiting inflation. Sowell described his serious study of Karl Marx in his autobiography; as a former Marxist who early in his career became disillusioned with the philosophy, he emphatically opposes Marxism, providing a critique in his book Marxism: Philosophy and Economics (1985).

Sowell has also written a trilogy of books on ideologies and political positions, including A Conflict of Visions, in which he speaks on the origins of political strife; The Vision of the Anointed, in which he compares the conservative/libertarian and liberal/progressive worldviews; and The Quest for Cosmic Justice, in which, as in many of his other writings, he outlines his thesis of the need felt by intellectuals, politicians, and leaders to fix and perfect the world in utopian and ultimately, he posits, disastrous fashions. Separate from the trilogy, but also in discussion of the subject, he wrote Intellectuals and Society, building on his earlier work, in which he discusses what he argues to be the blind hubris and follies of intellectuals in a variety of areas.

His book Knowledge and Decisions, a winner of the 1980 Law and Economics Center Prize, was heralded as a "landmark work," selected for this prize "because of its cogent contribution to our understanding of the differences between the market process and the process of government." In announcing the award, the centre acclaimed Sowell, whose "contribution to our understanding of the process of regulation alone would make the book important, but in reemphasizing the diversity and efficiency that the market makes possible, [his] work goes deeper and becomes even more significant." Friedrich Hayek wrote: "In a wholly original manner [Sowell] succeeds in translating abstract and theoretical argument into highly concrete and realistic discussion of the central problems of contemporary economic policy."

Sowell opposes the imposition of minimum wages by governments, arguing in his book Basic Economics that "Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they either lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force." He goes further to argue that minimum wages disproportionately affect "members of racial or ethnic minority groups" that have been discriminated against. He asserts that " Before federal minimum wage laws were instituted in the 1930s, the black unemployment rate was slightly lower than the white unemployment rate in 1930. But then followed the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933 and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 – all of which imposed government-mandated minimum wages, either on a particular sector or more broadly... By 1954, black unemployment rates were double those of whites and have continued to be at that level or higher. Those particularly hard hit by the resulting unemployment have been black teenage males."

Sowell also favors decriminalization of all drugs. He opposes gun control laws, arguing, "On net balance, they do not save lives, but cost lives."

Race and ethnicity 
Sowell argues that systemic racism is an untested, questionable hypothesis that is a piece of propaganda pushed on the American people. Sowell has said that "it really has no meaning that can be specified and tested in the way that one tests hypotheses" and "it's one of many words that I don't think even the people who use it have any clear idea what they're saying". He has argued that it is a propaganda tactic akin to those used by Joseph Goebbels because it comes with an attitude that it must be "repeated long enough and loud enough" until it is believed and people "cave in" to it.

In several of his works—including The Economics and Politics of Race (1983), Ethnic America (1981), Affirmative Action Around the World (2004), and other books—Sowell challenges the notion that black progress is due to progressive government programs or policies. He claims that many problems identified with blacks in modern society are not unique, neither in terms of American ethnic groups, nor in terms of a rural proletariat struggling with disruption as it became urbanized, as discussed in his Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005).

Sowell also writes on racial topics, typically critical of affirmative action and race-based quotas. He takes strong issue with the notion of government as a helper or savior of minorities, arguing that the historical record shows quite the opposite. In Affirmative Action Around the World, Sowell holds that affirmative action affects more groups than is commonly understood, though its impacts occur through different mechanisms, and has long since ceased to favor blacks.  

In Intellectuals and Race (2013), Sowell argues that intelligence quotient (IQ) gaps are hardly startling or unusual between, or within, ethnic groups. He notes that the roughly 15-point gap in contemporary black–white IQ scores is similar to that between the national average and the scores of certain ethnic white groups in years past, in periods when the nation was absorbing new immigrants.

Late-talking and the Einstein syndrome 
Sowell wrote The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late, a follow-up to his Late-Talking Children, discussing a condition he termed the Einstein syndrome. This book investigates the phenomenon of late-talking children, frequently misdiagnosed with autism or pervasive developmental disorder. He includes the research of Stephen Camarata and Steven Pinker, among others, in this overview of a poorly understood developmental trait. It is a trait which he says affected many historical figures who developed prominent careers, such as physicists Albert Einstein, Edward Teller, and Richard Feynman; mathematician Julia Robinson; and musicians Arthur Rubinstein and Clara Schumann. He makes the case for the theory that some children develop unevenly (asynchronous development) for a period in childhood due to rapid and extraordinary development in the analytical functions of the brain. This may temporarily "rob resources" from neighboring functions such as language development. Sowell disagrees with Simon Baron-Cohen's speculation that Einstein may have had Asperger syndrome.

Politics 
In a 2009 column titled "The Bush Legacy", Sowell assessed President George W. Bush as "a mixed bag" but "an honorable man." Sowell was strongly critical of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and officially endorsed Ted Cruz in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries in a February article. However, he indicated that he would vote in the general election against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, due to fears about the appointments Clinton would possibly make to the Supreme Court.

In 2020, Sowell wrote that if the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, it could signal a point of no return for the United States, a tipping point akin to the fall of the Roman Empire. In an interview in July 2020, he stated that "the Roman Empire overcame many problems in its long history but eventually it reached a point where it could no longer continue, and much of that was from within, not just the barbarians attacking from outside." Sowell wrote that if Biden became president, the Democratic Party would have an enormous amount of control over the nation, and if this happened, they could twin with the "radical left" and ideas such as defunding the police could come to fruition.

Donald Trump 
During the Republican primary of the 2016 presidential election, Sowell criticized Donald Trump, questioning whether Trump had "any principles at all, other than promoting Donald Trump?" Two weeks before the 2016 presidential election, Sowell urged voters to vote for Trump over Hillary Clinton. In 2018, when asked on his thoughts of Trump's presidency, Sowell replied, "I think he's better than the previous president."

In interviews in 2019, Sowell defended Trump against charges of racism.

Education 
Sowell has written about education throughout his career. He has argued for the need for reform of the school system in the United States. In his latest book, Charter Schools and Their Enemies (2020), Sowell compares the educational outcomes of school children educated at charter schools with those at conventional public schools. In his research, Sowell first explains the need and his methodology for choosing comparable students—both ethnically and socioeconomically—before listing his findings. He presents the case that charter schools on the whole do significantly better in terms of educational outcomes than conventional schools.

Sowell argues that many U.S. schools are failing children; contends that "indoctrination" has taken the place of proper education; and argues that teachers' unions have promoted harmful education policies.  Sowell contends that many schools have become monopolies for educational bureaucracies.

In his book Education: Assumptions Versus History (1986), Sowell analyzes the state of education in U.S. schools and universities. In particular, he examines the experiences of blacks and other ethnic groups in the American education system and identifies the factors and patterns behind both success and failure.

Reception 
Classical liberals, libertarians, and conservatives of different disciplines have received Sowell's work positively. Among these, he has been noted for his originality, great depth and breadth, clarity of expression, and thoroughness of research.  Sowell's publications have been received positively by economists Steven Plaut, Steve H. Hanke James M. Buchanan; and John B. Taylor; philosophers Carl Cohen and Tibor Machan; science historian Michael Shermer; essayist Gerald Early; political scientists Abigail Thernstrom and Charles Murray; psychologists Steven Pinker and Jonathan Haidt; Josef Joffe, publisher and editor of Die Zeit; and Walter E. Williams, professor of economics at George Mason University.

Conversely, economist James B. Stewart wrote a critical review of Black Rednecks and White Liberals, calling it "the latest salvo in Thomas Sowell's continuing crusade to represent allegedly dysfunctional value orientations and behavioral characteristics of African Americans as the principal reasons for persistent economic and social disparities." He also criticized it for downplaying the impact of slavery. Economist Bernadette Chachere, law professor Richard Thompson Ford, and sociologists William Julius Wilson and Richard Coughlin have criticized some of his work. Criticisms include neglecting discrimination against women in the workforce in Rhetoric or Reality?, the methodology of Race and Culture: A World View, and portrayal of opposing theories in Intellectuals and Race. Economist Jennifer Doleac criticized Discrimination and Disparities, arguing that statistical discrimination is real and pervasive (Sowell argues that existing racial disparities are due to accurate sorting based on underlying characteristics, such as education) and that government intervention can achieve societal goals and make markets work more efficiently. Columnist Steven Pearlstein criticized Wealth, Poverty and Politics.

Legacy and honors 
 1982: the Mencken Award for Best Book, from the Free Press Association, for his Ethnic America: A History.
 1990: the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute.
 1998: the Sydney Hook Award, from the National Association of Scholars.
1998: elected membership to the American Philosophical Society.
 2002: the National Humanities Medal, presented by President George W. Bush, for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science.
 2003: the Bradley Prize for intellectual achievement.
 2004: the Lysander Spooner Award, presented by Laissez Faire Books, for his Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One.
 2008: the International Book Award, from getAbstract, for his book Economic Facts and Fallacies.

Career chronology
 Labor economist, U.S. Department of Labor, June 1961 – August 1962
 Instructor in economics, Douglass College, Rutgers University, September 1962 – June 1963
 Lecturer in economics, Howard University, September 1963 – June 1964
 Economic analyst, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., June 1964 – August 1965
 Assistant professor of economics, Cornell University, September 1965 – August 1969
 Associate professor of economics, Brandeis University, September 1969 – June 1970
 Associate professor of economics, University of California, Los Angeles, September 1970 – June 1972
 Project director, Urban Institute, August 1972 – July 1974
 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, July 1976 – March 1977
 Visiting professor of economics, Amherst College, September–December 1977
 Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, April–August 1977
 Professor of economics, UCLA, July 1974 – June 1980
 Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, September 1980–present

Bibliography

Books 
 1971. Economics: Analysis and Issues. Scott Foresman & Co.
 1972. Black Education: Myths and Tragedies. David McKay Co. .  .
 1972. Say's Law: A Historical Analysis. Princeton University Press. .
 1974. Classical Economics Reconsidered. Princeton University Press. .
 1975. Race and Economics. David McKay Co. .
 1980. Knowledge and Decisions. Basic Books. .
 1981. Ethnic America: A History . Basic Books.  .
 Chapter 1, "The American Mosaic ."
 1981. Markets and Minorities. Basic Books.  .
 1981. Pink and Brown People: and Other Controversial Essays . Hoover Press . .
 1983. The Economics and Politics of Race. William Morrow. .
 1984. Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? William Morrow. .
 1985. Marxism: Philosophy and Economics. Quill. .
 1986. Education: Assumptions Versus History. Hoover Press. .
 1987. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles . William Morrow.  .
 1987. Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays. William Morrow. .
 1990. Preferential Policies: An International Perspective. 
 1993. Inside American Education. New York: The Free Press. .
 1993. Is Reality Optional?: and Other Essays. Hoover. .
 1995. Race and Culture: A World View. .
 1995. The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy. Basic Books. .
 1996. Migrations and Cultures: A World View. . .
 1998. Conquests and Cultures: An International History. .
 1998. Late-Talking Children. .
 1999. The Quest for Cosmic Justice . .
 2000. A Personal Odyssey. .
 2000. Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy (1st ed.) . Basic Books. .
 2002. Controversial Essays. Hoover. .
 2002. The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late. .
 2003. Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One. .
 2004. Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press .  .
 2004. Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy (revised and expanded ed.). New York: Basic Books.
 2005. Black Rednecks and White Liberals. San Francisco: Encounter Books. .
 2006. Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays . Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press.  .  .  .
 2006. On Classical Economics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. .
 2007. A Man of Letters. San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books. .
 2007. Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy (3rd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books. . .
 2008. Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One (2nd ed.). Basic Books.  .  .
 2008. Economic Facts and Fallacies . Basic Books. . . .
 2009. The Housing Boom and Bust. Basic Books. .
 Chapter 5, "The Past and the Future."
 2010. Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy (4th ed.). Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books. .
 2010. Dismantling America: and Other Controversial Essays. Basic Books.  .  .
 2010. Intellectuals and Society . Basic Books.  . Lay summary .
 2011. The Thomas Sowell Reader. Basic Books. .
 2011. Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition. Basic Books. 
 2013. Intellectuals and Race. Basic Books. .
 2014. Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy (5th ed.). New York: Basic Books. .
 2015. Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective.
 2016. Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective (2nd ed.). .
 2018. Discrimination and Disparities. .
 2019. Discrimination and Disparities (revised, enlarged ed.) .
 2020. Charter Schools and Their Enemies. .

Selected essays 
 
 1975. "Affirmative Action Reconsidered. Was It Necessary in Academia?" (Evaluation Studies 27). Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. . .
 1979. "Status versus Behavior." Washington University Law Review 1979(1):179–88.
 1982. "Weber and Bakke, and the Presuppositions of 'Affirmative Action'." Pp. 37–63 in Discrimination, Affirmative Action, and Equal Opportunity: An Economic and Social Perspective, edited by W. E. Block and M. A. Walker. Fraser Institute. .
 2002. "The Education of Minority Children." Pp. 79–92 in Education in the Twenty-First Century, edited by E. P. Lazear. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press. Available via eText.
 2002. "Discrimination, Economics, and Culture." Pp. 167–80 in Beyond the Color Line: New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America, edited by A. Thernstrom and S. Thernstrom. Hoover Institution Press.
 2012. "'Trickle Down' Theory and 'Tax Cuts for the Rich'" (Hoover Institution Press Publication 635) Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press. . Google Books: EY3prsH-5bwC.

See also 

 Greenhouse effect
 List of newspaper columnists
 Milton Friedman

References

Further reading 
 Kwong, Jo. 2008. "Sowell, Thomas (1930–)." pp. 482–83 in The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, edited by R. Hamowy. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE / Cato Institute. . . . .
 Ebeling, Richard M., "Thomas Sowell at 90: Understanding Race Relations Around the World," American Institute for Economic Research, June 16, 2020
 Riley, Jason L., Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell Basic Books, ,

External links 

 Thomas Sowell's home page
 Thomas Sowell Features at Creators Syndicate
 Archive of Articles by Thomas Sowell at JewishWorldReview.com
 
 
   Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World,  2021 PBS intellectual biography of its subject with Jason Riley hosting.

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How We Decide, is a 2009 book by journalist Jonah Lehrer, that provides biological explanations of how people make decisions and offers suggestions for making better decisions. It is published as The Decisive Moment: How the Brain Makes Up Its Mind in the United Kingdom.

On March 1, 2013, following revelations that Lehrer has been caught in numerous falsifications in his œuvre of writings, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced the book was taken "off sale" after an internal review.

Summary
Sections/chapters of the book are titled as follows:
 Introduction
 The Quarterback in the Pocket
 The Predictions of Dopamine
 Fooled by a Feeling
 The Uses of Reason
 Choking on Thought
 The Moral Mind
 The Brain Is an Argument
 The Poker Hand
 Coda

See also
Similarly themed books include:
 Proust Was a Neuroscientist
 Imagine: How Creativity Works
 Made to Stick
 Microtrends
 Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye
 Thinking, Fast and Slow
 Thinking Strategically

References

External links 
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 Los Angeles Times review
 Time Magazine review
 “And Now Jonah Lehrer’s Second Book Is Being Pulled From Stores”
 “Publisher Pulls Jonah Lehrer’s ‘How We Decide’ From Stores”

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Books by Jonah Lehrer The Challenger Sale is the first non-fiction book by Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, and their colleagues at CEB Inc. The book was published on November 10, 2011 by Portfolio/Penguin. In the text, the book argues that relationship-building is no longer the best sales method. To sell complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions, customers are changing how they buy so sales people must change how they sell. The authors’ study found that sales reps fall into one of five profiles, and the challenger seller is the highest performer.

Reception
This book has been an Amazon best-seller in the Sales and Selling category.

Translated Book 
 Брент Адамсон, Метью Діксон. Суперпродавці. Як навчитися продавати / пер. Дмитро Кожедуб. — К.: Наш Формат, 2018. — 240 с. — .

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External links
 Book Publisher website 
 Challenger — Change your point of view to change your potential 
 Linkedin - Brent Adamson. linkedin.com 
 The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation 

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