Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell was born in 1930 into a poor family in Gastonia, North Carolina. His father died shortly before his birth, and he was adopted and raised by his great-aunt and her two adult daughters, and grew up in Harlem, in New York City. Because of poverty and difficulties at home, he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and worked at various jobs before serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. Afterwards he graduated with honours from Harvard University in 1958, earned a master's degree in economics at Columbia University and, in 1968, a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago. He has said that he was a Marxist in his twenties. He taught at Cornell University, Brandeis University and the University of California, Los Angeles, and since 1977 he has been a fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has written more than forty-five books on economics, history, education, race and politics, including Basic Economics, and a column carried by more than 150 newspapers. In 2002 he received the National Humanities Medal.

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