Thomas Sowell

About Thomas Sowell

Conservative African-American author and writer who focuses on economics and American culture in his books and essays. The Francis Boyer Award, the National Humanities Medal, and the Bradley Prize are among his many literary distinctions.

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist and senior researcher at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Born in North Carolina, Sowell grew up in Harlem, New York. He dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and later served in the Marines during the Korean War. Upon his return to the United States, Sowell enrolled at Harvard University, graduating from the university in 1958. He received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1959 and received a doctorate in economics from the University. of Chicago in 1968. Sowell was a faculty member. from several universities, including Cornell University and the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also worked in consulting organizations such as the Urban Institute. Since 1980, he has worked at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, where he is currently Senior Fellows Rose and Milton Friedman in public policy. Sowell writes from a conservative liberal standpoint.

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He supports laissez-faire economics, and has written thirty books.

Thomas Sowell before fame

He earned a Master's degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago after graduating from Harvard University in 1958. He then taught economics at Howard University, Rutgers University, Cornell University, Brandeis University, Amherst College, and the University of California-Los Angeles.

Achievement of Thomas Sowell

He is a proponent of laissez-faire economics and the author of thirty books.

Salary 2020

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Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Thomas Sowell family life

Because his destitute mother already had four children to care for, his father died before he was born, and he was adopted by his great-aunt. A Personal Odyssey, his autobiography, tells the story of his childhood in North Carolina and New York City.

Associations of Thomas Sowell

He once penned an article in which he slammed George W. Bush.

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