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Thomas Sowell seems to have a solid grasp on economics. Too bad people don't study his work. Maybe if he wasn't black people in the US would listen to him.
by walkedaway 5y ago
Thomas Sowell seems to have a solid grasp on economics. Too bad people don't study his work. Maybe if he wasn't black people in the US would listen to him.
- bun_at_work 5y agoThis is an outrageous statement. Thomas Sowell is a widely cited and studied economist. Many people study his work (including myself!). What does his being black have to do with anything? There is no group of people ignoring him for being black. In fact, the contemporary politics would suggest that, since he's black, he'd be democrat, but his economics are very libertarian, a group more associated with racists. So what are you on about? People don't "listen" to him because he's incredibly biased towards free-market economics, not because his skin color.
- TheFreim 5y agoI don't understand what you mean, Sowell is very well regarded here in the United States in a variety of political environments.
- runbathtime 5y agoThomas Sowell is a great great thinker. People do not study his work because it doesn't fit well with MMT and the micromanaging of an economy. Not because he is black. This obsession with race is ridiculous.
- dang 5y agoPlease stop taking HN threads further into ideological flamewar. We don't want that here; it's tedious, predictable, and regularly turns nasty. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html