Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell University, UCLA, and Amherst College. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell has published more than a dozen books, the latest of which is a revised and expanded second edition of Economic Facts and Fallacies.
Articles
I recently joined Bill Whalen on the Hoover Institution’s Matters of Policy & Politics podcast to discuss a few of my favorite subjects: regulation, deregulation, and the economic consequences of government rules.
October 29, 2026
Articles
FIRE has billed itself as a nonpartisan organization that fights speech restrictions that are seen as left-wing, right-wing, and no-wing. Some have, however, argued that FIRE mostly fights left-wing restrictions (and thus mostly protects right-wing speakers), and goes after only a few right-wing restrictions as supposed "tokens" to hide its true nature.
October 28, 2026
Videos
Greg Kaplan on the history of macroeconomic theory from Keynesian to Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian Models, Bob Hall and Michael Woodford’s Nobel Prize, and his contributions to modeling heterogeneous agents.
October 29, 2026
