It is especially painful for me, as an economist, to see that two small cities in Northern California — San Mateo and Burlingame — have rent control proposals on the ballot this election year. There ...

From economist Thomas Sowell’s “Basic Economics” (2011, fourth edition): Just as we can better understand the economic role of prices in general when we see what happens when prices are not allowed to ...

Thomas Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA and Amherst, is the author of numerous books on subjects as diverse as philosophy, history and ...

Hoover Institution economist Sowell (Intellectuals and Race) minces no words in his hard-hitting survey of global wealth and poverty. He first considers the effects of geography on economic history ...

The economist and public intellectual Thomas Sowell turned 95 years old in June. Outside of national politicians and ...

A video livestream will be available on this page starting at 11 AM on Wednesday, June 2nd. Please scroll down to view. On June 2, AEI’s Jonah Goldberg moderated a discussion with AEI’s Mark J. Perry ...