2 0Fecha 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.
— Thomas Sowell
Economía básica: Un manual de economía escrito desde el sentido común
— 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
— 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
— Thomas Sowell, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
— Thomas Sowell, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
— Thomas Sowell
Social Deterioration
— Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
Student Loans
— Thomas Sowell
[http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/05/01/random_thoughts Random Thoughts], May 01, 2007
— Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society
