Thomas Sowell (/ s oʊ l / 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.

Jan 2, 2017 · Usually that thought is prompted by the death of a beloved celebrity, and there’s no question that we lost some talented people. But there are other kinds of loss. Case in point: Thomas...

Sep 15, 2023 · Thomas Sowell: We'd be killing each other. Peter Robinson: All right, can you give me intermediate steps? In other words, what is the social justice agenda? What do they want? Thomas Sowell: They want everybody to have equal outcomes or as close as they can get to it.

Dec 4, 2020 · But his death is a reminder that no one really has anything to say about such things. As an economist, Walter Williams never got the credit he deserved.

Thomas Sowell was born on June 30, 1930 in Gastonia, North Carolina. With his father already dead shortly before his birth, his mother, a housemaid, could not support her five children, and sent him to a great-aunt and her two grown-up daughters who adopted and raised him.

Born in 1930 in North Carolina to an underprivileged African American family, Thomas Sowell faced significant hardships from a young age. His father passed away before his birth, leaving his mother to raise five children alone.

Jan 14, 2008 · An influential African American economist who is known for his controversial views on race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, Thomas Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1930. When he was eight, his family moved to Harlem, New York.

Thomas Sowell (/ soʊl /; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and social theorist. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. [6] Sowell worked at Cornell University and University of California, Los Angeles. He has also worked for think tanks such as the Urban Institute.

Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina; his father died before he was born. He moved to Harlem , New York City, with his mother’s sister. Sowell attended Stuyvesant High School but dropped out at age 17 because of financial difficulties and a deteriorating home environment.

Thomas Sowell (b. 1930) was born in small town of Gastonia, North Carolina, about 20 miles west of Charlotte. Sowell’s father died shortly after he was born. His mother, a housemaid, had four older children, and young Tom ended up in the care of a great-aunt and her family.