Category: economist
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Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Thomas Sowell
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
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Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas Sowell
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Thomas Sowell
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There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?
Thomas Sowell
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Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.
Thomas Sowell
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Thomas Sowell
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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
Thomas Sowell
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Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
Thomas Sowell
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas Sowell