"Trickle Down" Theory and "tax Cuts for the Rich"

Thomas Sowell

Hoover Institution Press, 2012 - Business & Economics - 17 pages

This essay unscrambles gross misconceptions that have made rational debates about tax policies virtually impossible for decades.

About the author

Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among his published works are Basic Economics, Late Talking Children, and Race and Culture. He has also published in both academic journals and the popular media including Newsweek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and 150 newspapers that carry his nationally syndicated column.

Bibliographic information

• Title: "Trickle Down" Theory and "tax Cuts for the Rich"; Issue 635 of Hoover Institution Press publication
• Author: Thomas Sowell
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0817916156, 9780817916152
• Length: 17 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Taxation / General; Law / Taxation; Political Science / General; Political Science / Political Economy; Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy; Political Science / Reference; Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity