![]() ![]() “People would have said, ‘What the hell is Sowell doing writing a book about things any decently trained economist already knows? He’s supposed to be advancing the frontiers of knowledge.’” Basic Economics has sold more copies than any other book he has written, but his fellow faculty members likely would have shrugged-or worse. “I doubt seriously if I would have written Basic Economics if I were still part of an economics department,” Sowell told me. I’ll quote from the book and then tell my own similar story from early in my career. One particular passage about the weird nature of academia stood out. As I mentioned a few days ago, I’ve been reading and enjoying Jason Riley’s Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell. ![]()
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