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The Anatomy of Capital Returns over the Very Long Run: Germany, 1465–2025
Economics Working Paper 26128
November 6, 2026
This week on Uncommon Knowledge, Hoover fellow and author Thomas Sowell discusses his newest book, Intellectuals and Race, which argues that the impact of intellectuals' ideas and crusades on the larger society, both past and present, is the ultimate concern. (38:27)
“The intellectuals have told them [African Americans] that the world is unjust, that other people are keeping them down, that the fact that they don't have what other people have, is somebody else's fault.”
Recorded on Tuesday, April 23, 2013
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