Thomas Sowell (/ s oʊ l / SOHL; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, economic historian, social philosopher and political commentator. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. He writes on economics, history, social policy, ethnicity, and the history of ideas. His most recent book, Discrimination and Disparities (2018), gathers a wide array of empirical...

Sep 15, 2023 · Thomas Sowell, age 93, is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. With his usual fierceness and feistiness intact, Dr. Sowell returns to Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson to discuss his latest book (he’s published over 40 titles over his career), Social Justice Fallacies.

Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Although trained as an economist, he has written on a wide range of subjects. The author of forty-nine books and a syndicated newspaper column, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal in …

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Jul 1, 2020 · Thomas Sowell turned 90 yesterday. An economist at the Hoover Institution, Sowell is possibly the most fascinating and productive scholar in the world. I say that not as a junior colleague of Sowell (I am a mere 69), but as someone who has studied his work for 44 years.

Thomas Sowell (/ soʊl /; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and social theorist. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. [6] Sowell worked at Cornell University and University of California, Los Angeles. He has also worked for think tanks such as the Urban Institute.

May 14, 2018 · Thomas Sowell (born 1930) is noted for his conservative views on social and economic issues. An African American author and economist, Sowell opposes such programs as affirmative action , busing, racial quotas, minimum wage , and welfare.

His career as an author began in 1972 with the autobiographical Black Education: Myths and Tragedies. More than thirty books later, Sowell’s latest is Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy, aimed at general readers.

American economist, social theorist, philosopher and writer. Born in 1930 in North Carolina to an underprivileged African American family, Thomas Sowell faced significant hardships from a young age. His father passed away before his birth, leaving his mother to raise five children alone.