It is especially painful for me, as an economist, to see that two small cities in Northern California — San Mateo and Burlingame — have rent control proposals on the ballot this election year. There ...

While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by mob rule. There is nothing democratic about mob rule. It means that ...

Is Trump Following the Obama Drone Strike Model? Trump Puts Consumers Back in the Driver’s Seat Audio By Carbonatix Jason Riley narrates an excellent new documentary about one of the greatest thinkers ...

"I was still a Marxist after taking Milton Friedman's course [at the University of Chicago]," says free market economist and social critic Thomas Sowell. "One summer in the government was enough to ...

Thomas Sowell, author of Applied Economics, 2nd Edition: Thinking Beyond Stage One doesn’t think much of the $700 billion economic bailout: “It looked at first as a necessary evil, but as time goes on ...

Thomas Sowell, a living legend in the field of economics, says he fears the U.S. may eventually succumb to the siren song of socialism. The author of “Basic Economics,” “The Vision of the Anointed,” ...

While politicians squabble over the pros and cons of price controls on prescription drugs, onlooking citizens are often left scratching their heads. Many of today's economic issues are obscured by ...

One of my two all-time most favorite economists — Dr. Thomas Sowell — turns 91 today, he was born on June 30, 1930. Here is Thomas Sowell’s webpage and here is his Wikipedia entry. Milton Friedman (my ...

That economists Thomas Sowell and the late Walter Williams have not received the Presidential Medal of Freedom borders on scandalous. The award, as well as the Congressional Gold Medal, is the highest ...

For Thomas Sowell, economics, politics, and life are all questions of trade-offs. So too is photography, the lifelong hobby he developed while serving in a U.S. Marine Corps Combat Camera Division. In ...

One of my all-time most favorite economists — Thomas Sowell — turns 89 tomorrow, he was born on June 30, 1930. Here is Thomas Sowell’s webpage and here is his Wikipedia entry. Milton Friedman once ...