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Thomas Sowell
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- 30 Jun 1930
- Works
- 120
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- המרדף אחר צדק קוסמי
- The quest for cosmic justice
- The Marxian system
- ʻImut ben hashḳafot
- Housing Boom and Bust
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Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social critic, political commentator and author. He advocates laissez-faire economics and, generally, libertarian ideological views. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science. In 2003, he was awarded
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- Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 160,822x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,497x
- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 57,542x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,724x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,769x
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Quotes
- “What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.”
- “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
- “Too many Republicans treat English as a second language, with Beltway lingo being their native tongue.”
- “The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
- “If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.”
- “Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1930-06-30 ) June 30, 1930 (age 95) , Gastonia, North Carolina , U.S.
- Political party
- Democratic (until 1972), Independent (after 1972)
- Spouses
- Alma Parr ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1975 ) Mary Ash ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. January 17, 1981</span>"}]]}'>1981 )
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA ) Columbia University ( MA ) University of Chicago ( PhD )
- Doctoral advisor
- George Stigler
- Influences
- Smith Marx Keynes Hayek Friedman Stigler Brown
- Discipline
- Economic history Welfare economics Economic development Sociology Political sociology Education Higher education History Intellectual history African-American history Discrimination Race relations Historical linguistics
- School or tradition
- Chicago school of economics
- Awards
- Francis Boyer Award (1990) American Philosophical Society (1998) National Humanities Medal (2002) Bradley Prize (2004) GetAbstract International Book Award (2008)
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- United States Marine Corps
- Service years
- 1951–1952
- Conflicts
- Korean War
- Website
- tsowell .com
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- tsowell.com
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Thomas Sowell (/soʊl/ SOHL; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, economic historian, and social theorist. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he is a well-known voice in the American conservative movement as a prominent black conservative. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush in 2002.
Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, and grew up in Harlem, New York City. Due to poverty and difficulties at home, he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and worked various odd jobs, eventually serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. Afterward, he graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1958. He earned a master's degree in economics from Columbia University the next year, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968. In his academic career, he held professorships at Cornell University, Brandeis University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also worked at think tanks, including the Urban Institute. Since 1977, he has worked at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy.