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Sowell, Thomas

(1930–  ) economist; born in Gastonia, N.C. Educated at Harvard, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago, he taught at Rutgers (1962–63), Howard (1963–64), and Brandeis Universities (1967–70). He left the University of California: Los Angeles in 1972 to direct the Ethnic Minorities Research Project at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. His books include Black Education: Myths and Tragedies (1972) and Race and Economics (1973). During the Reagan administrations of the 1980s he gained considerable publicity for advancing the neoconservative position that affirmative action was bad for the morale of black Americans.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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Thomas Sowell's newest book "Discrimination and Disparities," which is an enlarged and revised edition of an earlier version.
The state can audit all it wants and perform one last solitary fleecing, but it can't thus retain what economist Thomas Sowell has called "human capital." It's an old lesson, one that explains why the erstwhile Eastern Bloc Marxists built the Berlin Wall (to keep their own people in), and illustrates how leftists do not learn from history.
Intellectuals and Society (revised ed.) by Thomas Sowell, softcover, 680 pp, $26.99, ISBN-13: 978-0465025220, Basic Books, 2012.
WHEN ECONOMIST THOMAS SOWELL sees disparities, he, like Ibram Kendi, sees bias driven by hatred or ignorance.
After more than a quarter century of sharing his thoughts and opinions through his Creators Syndicate newspaper column, Thomas Sowell recently decided to retire from column writing.
[Libertarian economists] Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell have done a great job of highlighting that what the welfare state does is incentivize people to fail.
Dr Thomas Sowell a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, in a blog writes, "Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?"A mail by a friend on 1st January 2017 says, "The first day of year starts with first wastage of public money.
Take Rilke, translated by the Jungian psychologist James Hollis: "The purpose of life is to be defeated by ever greater things." The economist Thomas Sowell: "There are no solutions; there are only tradeoffs." (You'll never solve all your problems.
Alarmed by the realization that Trump has a credible shot at winning the GOP presidential nomination, the editors of National Review have authored an editorial inveighing "Against Trump," (1) and they've compiled denunciations of the wildly popular candidate by conservative luminaries from Glenn Beck to Thomas Sowell. (2) Although these commentators speak at length about why conservatives and Republicans should dump Trump, they neglect to acknowledge that the conservative movement's contempt for ideas and ideology over the past half century is what made Trump's ascension possible.
In 2015, Thomas Sowell turned 85 and published a new book.
Economist and political philosopher Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow The Hoover Institution at Stanford University, wrote a syndicated column back in 2013 in which he ridiculed those "people who have never fired a shot in their life (but) who do not hesitate to declare how many bullets should be the limit to put into a firearm's clip or magazine.
10 column ("Political segregation argues for two Eugenes") took its lead from Thomas Sowell's 1987 book, "A Conflict of Visions."
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