Thomas Sowell
Дата рождения: June 30, 1930 – Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
Thomas Sowell is an influential American economist, social theorist, and author whose work spans economics, race, history, and social policy. A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, he has written over forty books, including Basic Economics and Black Rednecks and White Liberals, and received the National Humanities Medal in 2002.
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Thomas Sowell was born in 1930 in Gastonia, North Carolina, to a family of black sharecroppers. His early life was marked by poverty and family upheaval; his father died before he was born, and he was subsequently raised by his great-aunt in Charlotte before moving to Harlem, New York City. Sowell’s academic promise emerged despite a turbulent youth, as he learned to read by age four and gained admission to New York’s elite Stuyvesant High School. However, mounting family tensions led to his dropping out at seventeen and supporting himself through various jobs in Harlem.
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"Thomas Sowell is an American economist, economic historian, and social and political commentator, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution"
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"Sowell has been applying the principles of economics to a range of intellectual disciplines, including history, politics, and education"
— National Endowment for the Humanities
"Thomas Sowell is an economist and social theorist with books on systemic racism, education, free markets, and basic economics"
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"Sowell is a rare species. He's an honest intellectual who has consistently sought out the truth, regardless of whether it made him popular"
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"Thomas Sowell is recognized as a leading intellectual figure in the fields of economics and political commentary"
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"Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and the author of forty-nine books"
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"In a career spanning more than a half century, Thomas Sowell has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory"
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"Thomas Sowell is an influential American economist, author, and social theorist known for outspoken views on economics, education, and race relations"
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