Thomas Sowell (b. 1930) · CatalogThomas SowellThomas Sowell (b. 1930) · CatalogAmerican economist and social theorist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.Author
Thomas Sowell
b. 1930 · American economist and social theorist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
Short biography: Thomas Sowell in Great Lives
About Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell (born 1930) is an American economist and social theorist, born in Gastonia, North Carolina, and raised in Harlem. He left school at seventeen, served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, and later studied at Harvard, Columbia and the University of Chicago, where he earned his doctorate under George Stigler. After teaching at Cornell, UCLA and other universities he became a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford in 1980. He has written more than forty books, including Knowledge and Decisions, A Conflict of Visions and Race and Culture, as well as a long-running syndicated newspaper column.
Notable works
- Knowledge and Decisions (1980)
- A Conflict of Visions (1987)
- Basic Economics (2000)
On this site
Basic EconomicsThomas Sowell
2000 · Postwar Contemporary · Essays
Basic Economics is Thomas Sowell's introduction to economics for general readers, written without graphs or equations. First published in 2000 with the subtitle A Citizen's Guide to the Economy, it has gone through five editions, the most recent in 2014 under the subtitle A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, and has grown to more than six hundred pages.