The occasion of Thomas Sowell’s 93 rd birthday offers an opportunity to share with folks who are only recently becoming acquainted with him the best starting place for understanding the basic outlines that define Sowell’s analysis of social problems.
Because it puts forward one of Sowell’s most important lessons in my opinion, namely his hypothesis that much of Western political debates are predicated on one of two predominant worldviews, what Sowell refers to as the constrained and unconstrained visions, reading his A Conflict of Visions as a good place for the new student to start. As he progresses through this and Sowell’s other works, it will be clear that the constrained vision informs Sowell’s analysis of a host of controversial issues, from economics to race and discrimination to history and cross-cultural comparisons. If I had to point to just a handful of topics the dedicated student of Sowell is likely […]
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