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Sowell, Thomas, 1930-

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Personal name headingSowell, Thomas, 1930-
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Variant(s)So-wei-erh, Tʻo-ma-ssu, 1930-
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1930-06-30
Place of birthGastonia (N.C.)
Field of activityEconomics Political sociology
AffiliationHoward University Harvard University Cornell University Amherst College Brandeis University Urban Institute
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Economists Soldiers Authors
Found inEconomics: analysis and issues, 1971.
Mei-kuo chung tsu chien shih, 1993: title page (Tʻo-ma-ssu So-wei-erh [Chi. reading])
Barbarians inside the gates ... 1999: CIP title page (Thomas Sowell) introduction (Hoover Institution, Stanford U.)
dismantling America, ©2010: title page (Thomas Sowell) dust jacket (he has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst and other academic institutions)
African American National Biography, accessed September 15, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Sowell, Thomas; Thomas Hancock Sowell; educator, economist, soldier, autobiographer/memoirist; born 30 June 1930 in Gastonia, North Carolina, United States; drafted, Marine Corps (1951); earned AB in Economics from Harvard University (1958), master's degree in Economics from Columbia University (1959) and PhD in Economics from University of Chicago (1968); intern, U.S. Department of Labor (1962); instructor in economics, Rutgers University and Douglass College (1962-1963); lecturer in economics, Howard University (1963-1964); taught economics, Cornell University, Brandeis University, Amherst College, UCLA (1965-1972); project director at the Urban Institute (1972-1974); on the White House Economic Advisory Board (1981))
Associated languageeng