Thomas Sowell
Economist, Author
1930 –
Who is Thomas Sowell?
Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author.
He is currently Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Sowell was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Harlem, New York. He dropped out of high school and served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1959. In 1968, he earned his Doctorate in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Sowell has served on the faculties of several universities, including Cornell University and University of California, Los Angeles. He has also worked for think tanks such as the Urban Institute. Since 1980, he has worked at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He writes from a conservative and libertarian perspective, advocating free market economics and has written more than thirty books. He is a National Humanities Medal winner.
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- Born
- Jun 30, 1930
Gastonia - Spouses
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Columbia University
- Harvard University
- Stuyvesant High School
- Harvard College
- Howard University
- Lived in
- North Carolina
- Palo Alto
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on July 23, 2013
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