Frases de Thomas Sowell
2 1Thomas 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.
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„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“
— Thomas Sowell
Economía básica: Un manual de economía escrito desde el sentido común
„Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance.“
— Thomas Sowell
Context: 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.
Ch. 5 : Halls of Ivy
„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.“
— Thomas Sowell
Context: 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.
Ch. 5 : Halls of Ivy
„I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.“
— Thomas Sowell, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
„People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.“
— Thomas Sowell, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
„Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.“
— Thomas Sowell
Social Deterioration
„The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.“
— Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
Student Loans
„Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.“
— Thomas Sowell
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/05/01/random_thoughts, May 01, 2007
„Intellect is not wisdom.“
— Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society
