POLITICS:
Supply-Side Politics*

By Thomas Sowell

If you want to understand politics, argues Hoover fellow Thomas Sowell, look at the supply side--the kinds of people who make politics their career. It's the candidates, stupid.

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Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution.