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Thomas Sowell
American economist (born 1930)
Not to be confused with Thomas Sewell (disambiguation).
Thomas Sowell (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.[1][2] With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he is a well-known voice in the American conservative movement as a prominent black conservative.[3][4][5] He was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush in 2002.[6][a]
Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, and grew up in Harlem, New York City. Due to poverty and difficulties at home, he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and worked various odd jobs, eventually serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. Afterward, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1958.[7] He earned a master's degree in economics from Columbia University the next year and a Ph.D.
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Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell is among the most brilliant thinkers in the world today—deep, original, creative, fearless, intimidatingly erudite. His gripping and improbable life story can only magnify one’s awe at this astonishing man’s accomplishments.
Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and the author of How the Mind Works and Enlightenment Now
About the Book
A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers
Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. His bold and unsentimental assaults on liberal orthodoxy have endeared him to many readers but have also enraged fellow intellectuals, the civil-rights establishment, and much of the mainstream media. The result has been a lack of acknowledgment of his scholarship among critics who prioritize political correctness.
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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 2002.
Born into a family of black sharecroppers in North Carolina in 1930, Sowell grew up in Harlem and attended (but did not graduate from) New York’s elite Stuyvesant High School. After working at an assortment of menial positions, Sowell was inducted into the Marine Corps and became a service photographer. He then studied briefly at Washington’s Howard University. From there he transferred to Harvard, eventually graduating magna cum laude at the age of 28. Sowell was the first member of his household to proceed past the sixth grade.
Sowell received a master’s degree at Columbia and later a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968.
Sowell was a Marxist for much of his youth and wrote his college thesis on Marx’s Das Kapital. He has attributed the beginning of his s
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