Whereas academics and intellectuals tend to be a timid bunch, going along to get along, Sowell has consistently and confidently gone his own way.

One of my all-time most favorite economists — Thomas Sowell — turns 87 tomorrow, he was born on June 30, 1930. Here is Thomas Sowell’s webpage and here is his Wikipedia entry. Milton Friedman once ...

Thomas Sowell, author of Applied Economics, 2nd Edition: Thinking Beyond Stage One doesn’t think much of the $700 billion economic bailout: “It looked at first as a necessary evil, but as time goes on ...

"I was still a Marxist after taking Milton Friedman's course [at the University of Chicago]," says free market economist and social critic Thomas Sowell. "One summer in the government was enough to ...

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Thomas Sowell, a living legend in the field of economics, says he fears the U.S. may eventually succumb to the siren song of socialism. The author of “Basic Economics,” “The Vision of the Anointed,” ...

My sense of smell is very poor. But there is one thing I can smell far better than most people -- gas escaping. During my years of living on the Stanford University campus, and walking back and forth ...

That economists Thomas Sowell and the late Walter Williams have not received the Presidential Medal of Freedom borders on scandalous. The award, as well as the Congressional Gold Medal, is the highest ...

That economists Thomas Sowell and the late Walter Williams have not received the Presidential Medal of Freedom borders on scandalous. The award, as well as the Congressional Gold Medal, is the highest ...

For Thomas Sowell, economics, politics, and life are all questions of trade-offs. So too is photography, the lifelong hobby he developed while serving in a U.S. Marine Corps Combat Camera Division. In ...

One of my all-time most favorite economists — Thomas Sowell — turns 89 tomorrow, he was born on June 30, 1930. Here is Thomas Sowell’s webpage and here is his Wikipedia entry. Milton Friedman once ...