Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell (/soʊl/; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and social theorist. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.[1]

Thomas Sowell
Sowell in 1964
Born	(1930-06-30) June 30, 1930 Gastonia, North Carolina, U.S.
Spouses	Alma Jean Parr (m. 1964; div. 1975) Mary Ash (m. 1981)
Institution	Cornell University Brandeis University Urban Institute University of California, Los Angeles Hoover Institution
Field	Welfare economics education politics history race relations child development
School or tradition	Chicago school of economics
Alma mater	Harvard University Columbia University University of Chicago
Influences	Friedrich Hayek Milton Friedman Adam Smith Henry Hazlitt John Maynard Keynes Edmund Burke
Awards	Francis Boyer Award National Humanities Medal Bradley Prize getAbstract Int'l Book Award
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Marine Corps
Years of service	1951–1953

Sowell worked at 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 libertarian conservative perspective. He is a National Humanities Medal recipient for innovative scholarship which incorporated history, economics and political science.