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Books by Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Born in North Carolina in 1930, he grew up in Harlem and was the first in his family to study beyond sixth grade. He earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago, where he was influenced by Milton Friedman. He has written more than forty books on economics, social policy, history, and culture, including A Conflict of Visions, The Vision of the Anointed, and a three-volume series on racial and cultural history. Basic Economics, first published in 2000, has become one of the most widely read economics books for general audiences.