Frases de Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Fecha de nacimiento: 30. Junio 1930
Thomas Sowell es un pensador y economista conservador libertario estadounidense. Tras el fallecimiento de Jean-François Revel, ha quedado como uno de los máximos representantes de la oposición al modelo de pensamiento de lo "políticamente correcto".[cita requerida]
Su aplicación de la lógica de la economía a distintos ámbitos sociales es la que le ha conducido a un modelo de pensamiento libertario.
Frases Thomas Sowell
„Nada es más fácil que tener buenas intenciones. Pero cuando no se entiende cómo funciona una economía, las buenas intenciones pueden llevar a consecuencias desastrosas“
Economía básica: Un manual de economía escrito desde el sentido común
„Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.“
— Thomas Sowell, Compassion Versus Guilt, and Other Essays: And Other Essays
Bogeyman Economics
1980s–1990s, Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays (1987)
Fuente: Compassion Versus Guilt, and Other Essays: And Other Essays
„Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?“
p.397
Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (2011)
„He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.“
Ch. 5 : Halls of Ivy
2000s, A Personal Odyssey (2000)
Contexto: In the summer of 1959, as in the summer of 1957, I worked as a clerk-typist in the headquarters of the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington. The people I worked for were very nice and I grew to like them. One day, a man had a heart attack at around 5 PM, on the sidewalk outside the Public Health Service. He was taken inside to the nurse's room, where he was asked if he was a government employee. If he were, he would have been eligible to be taken to a medical facility there. Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance. By the time this ambulance made its way through miles of Washington rush-hour traffic, the man was dead. He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.
„When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.“
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
