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Thomas Sowell (born 1930) is a writer and economist and one of the few prominent African-American Libertarians. He was born in North Carolina. Sowell graduated in 1948 from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, and holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College, an A.M. in Economics from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, known for its Chicago school of economics. Sowell has taught at prominent American universities including Cornell University and UCLA, and since 1980 has been a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, where he holds the fellowship named after Rose and Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman (born July 31, 1912) is a U. economist, known primarily for his advocacy of laissez-faire capitalism. In 1976 he was awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. His book Free to Choose coauthored with h.Besides scholarly writing, Sowell has written books, articles and syndicated columns for a general audience, in such publications as Forbes Magazine, The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). For many years, it had the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, althou, and major newspapers. Sowell primarily writes on economic subjects, in which he generally advocates a laissez-faireLaissez faire is short for laissez faire, laissez passer " a French phrase meaning to "let things alone, let them pass". First used by the eighteenth century Physiocrats as an injunction against government interference with trade, it is now used as a syno free marketA free market economy is an idealized form of market economy in which buyers and sellers are permitted to carry out transactions based solely on mutual agreement without interventionism in the form of taxes, subsidies, regulation, or government provision approach to capitalismCapitalism generally refers to a combination of economic practices that became institutionalized in Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries. Exactly which historic and current practices are considered part of "capitalism" varies among users of the term. Sowell also writes on racial topics, and is a critic of the policies of affirmative actionAffirmative action ( U. English), also called positive discrimination or reverse discrimination ( British English) or employment equity is conciously choosing people who have traditionally been discriminated against. This consists of preferential access t, which has made him a controversial figure. Sowell's most recent book is "Basic Economics, a Citizen's Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded".
1 Book summaries:
- A Conflict of VisionsA Conflict of Visions is a book by Thomas Sowell. Sowell's opening chapter tries to answer the question of why the same people tend to be political adversaries in issue after issue, when the issues vary enormously in subject matter, and sometimes hardly s
- The Vision of the Anointed
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