Economist Thomas Sowell: “If there's anything worse than unfairness it is make-believe fairness”
Thomas Sowell
Economist and social theorist
Ideas
Economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell on why the New York blackouts differed
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why affirmative action harms everyone
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why cosmic justice and traditional justice are incompatible
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why affirmative action can't be compromised
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why income bracket statistics mislead
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why the Soviet Union had famines despite rich resources
Economist Thomas Sowell: “It’s not race, it’s not income, it’s not education, it’s lifestyle”
Economist Thomas Sowell: “Unemployment hit double digits for the first time”
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why markets beat central planning
Economist Thomas Sowell: “You can’t confiscate the source of their wealth”
Economist Thomas Sowell on how markets undermine apartheid
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why firstborns are more likely to be National Merit finalists
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why he would repeal the minimum wage law
Economist Thomas Sowell explains how politicians made mortgages riskier
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why minimum wage laws create unemployment
Economist Thomas Sowell on what happened to tax shares after the 1920s tax cuts
Economist Thomas Sowell on why he disagrees that women are paid less for the same jobs
Economist Thomas Sowell explains how the welfare state destroyed the Black family
Economist Thomas Sowell explains the hidden inflation tax
Economist Thomas Sowell on why uneducated parents aren’t poorer judges than bureaucrats
Economist Thomas Sowell on why apartheid laws had unintended results
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why the Smoot-Hawley tariffs were a disaster
Economist Thomas Sowell: “Human beings are not random events”
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why intellectuals venture beyond their competence
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why the U.S. Constitution limits power
Economist Thomas Sowell on what the constrained and unconstrained visions believe
Economist Thomas Sowell: “The US Department of Labor had its own agenda and interests”
Economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell: “You cannot measure opportunity by outcomes”
Economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell on the ‘level playing field’ that’s actually tilted
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