Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, economic historian, and social theorist who serves as the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy, Emeritus, at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is best known for his prolific authorship of more than 45 books on economics, history, social policy, and culture, including Basic Economics, A Conflict of Visions, and the cultural history trilogy comprising Race and Culture, Migrations and Cultures, and Conquests and Cultures. He earned his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968 and previously held professorships at Cornell University, Brandeis University, and UCLA.