Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell (English: Thomas Sowell, June 30, 1930 -), is an American economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Sowell was born in North Carolina and raised in Harlem, New York. He dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. After returning to the United States, Sowell entered Harvard University and graduated with honors in 1958. He received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1959 and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968. Sowell has served on the faculty of several universities, including Cornell University and UCLA. He also works at think tanks such as the Urban Institute. Since 1980, he has worked at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, where he currently serves as the Ross and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow in Public Policy. Sowell writes from both a libertarian and a conservative perspective. Sowell wrote more than thirty books, and his work has been widely anthologised. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal, his scholarship blends history, economics, and political science.