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Thomas Sowell

1930 - Today

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Thomas Sowell ( SOHL; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social philosopher, and political commentator. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he became a well-known voice in the American conservative movement as a prominent black conservative. He was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Sowell has received more than 7,274,124 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Thomas Sowell is the 215th most popular economist (up from 222nd in 2019), the 3,739th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,184th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Economist.

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  • 52.04

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  • 30

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  • 1.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Thomas Sowell ranks 215 out of 315. Before him are Abba P. Lerner, Clément Juglar, William Baumol, Gustav Cassel, Stanley Fischer, and Eugen Slutsky. After him are Martín de Azpilcueta, Roy Harrod, Nassau William Senior, David D. Friedman, Jon Elster, and Benjamin Tucker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Thomas Sowell ranks 230. Before him are Georges Descrières, John Astin, Jim Hall, Yuri Artyukhin, José María Zárraga, and Freimut Börngen. After him are Svatopluk Pluskal, Gary Snyder, Miodrag Bulatović, Borislav Pekić, Vilmos Zsigmond, and Paul Veyne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Sowell ranks 3,739 out of 18,182. Before him are John C. Woods (1911), Arthur Janov (1924), Alexandra Daddario (1986), Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), James Marsden (1973), and Helen Frankenthaler (1928). After him are Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Booker T. Washington (1856), Eric Singer (1958), Marie Tharp (1920), Majel Barrett (1932), and James Burton (1939).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Thomas Sowell ranks 73. Before him are Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Mancur Olson (1932), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Peter Senge (1947), Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), and William Baumol (1922). After him are David D. Friedman (1945), Benjamin Tucker (1854), Henry Hazlitt (1894), George Shultz (1920), Eric Maskin (1950), and Greg Mankiw (1958).

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