Thomas Sowell

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