Sowell also writes on racial topics and is a critic of affirmative action and race based quotas.

American economist, social and political commentator, Dr. Thomas Sowell identified some negative results of race-based affirmative action in his book, Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study.

In Affirmative Action Around the World Sowell holds that affirmative action covers most of the American population, particularly women, and has long since ceased to be directed towards blacks.

Sowell comments on issues he considers to be problematic in modern-day society, which include liberal media bias ; judicial activism ( while staunchly defending originalism ); partial birth abortion ; the minimum wage ; socializing health care ; government undermining of familial autonomy ; affirmative action ; government bureaucracy ; militancy in U. S. foreign policy ; the U. S. war on drugs, and multiculturalism.

Reviewing Sowell's 1984 book Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality ?, University of Chicago sociologist William Julius Wilson said that Sowell did not explore " reasonable alternative explanations and hypotheses " in his critiques of affirmative action.

" Sowell since then has written on affirmative action in an international context to address such criticisms in two books ( Preferential Policies, Affirmative Action Around the World ) and has written about pay differentials and occupational segregation in Economic Facts and Fallacies.

Sowell on flat-tax vs. progressive tax, rent-control, balanced budget amendments, protectionist tariffs, poverty and welfare, profit-restriction, illegal immigration, a weak dollar vs. a strong dollar, affirmative action, and reparations.

Already known as a critic of affirmative action or race-based hiring and promotion, Sowell, himself African-American, analyzes the specific effects of such policies on India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria, four countries with longer multiethnic histories and then compares them with the recent history of the United States in this regard.

Sowell concludes: " Despite sweeping claims made for affirmative action programs, an examination of their actual consequences makes it hard to support those claims, or even to say that these programs have been beneficial on net balance.

Sowell also challenges the notion that black progress is due to progressive government programs or policies, in The Economics and Politics of Race, ( 1983 ), Ethnic America ( 1981 ), Affirmative Action Around the World ( 2004 ), and other books.

Themes of Sowell ’ s writing range from social policy on race, ethnic groups, education and decision-making, to classical and Marxist economics, to the problems of children perceived as having disabilities.

In Intelligence and Ethnicity, Sowell argues that IQ gaps are hardly startling or unusual between, or within, ethnic groups.

Sowell cites Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky and Edmund Wilson as paradigmatic examples of this phenomenon.

Some economists and legal scholars ( e. g. Henry Manne, Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Daniel Fischel, Frank H. Easterbrook ) argue that laws making insider trading illegal should be revoked.

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Economist Thomas Sowell argues that the Great Society programs only contributed to the destruction of African American families, saying " the black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.

While Rose is not considered in the doctoral institution rankings, Stanford University's Hoover Institute fellow, Thomas Sowell, mentioned Rose – Hulman as one of the best smaller universities to consider, noting that graduate engineering deans have ranked its graduates ahead of many top schools with PhD programs, such as Duke, Princeton, UCLA, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Among the distinguished faculty, present and past, are composers David Rakowski and Leonard Bernstein, social theorist Herbert Marcuse, psychologist Abraham Maslow, human rights activist Eleanor Roosevelt, Anita Hill, historian David Hackett Fischer, economist Thomas Sowell, diplomat Dennis Ross, children's author Margret Rey, sociologist Morrie Schwartz, and poet Adrienne Rich.

Members of the Township Council are President John Sowell ( West Ward ; 2012 ), First Vice President Quinzell R. McKenzie ( East Ward ; 2012 ), Second Vice President D. Bilal Beasley ( At-Large ; 2014 ), Lebby C. Jones ( At-Large ; 2014 ), Sandra R. Jones ( South Ward ; 2012 ), David Lyons ( North Ward ; 2012 ) and Andrea C. McElroy ( At-Large ; 2014 ).

Coffman Middle School, Ingram Sowell Elementary School, David Crockett Elementary School, and Lawrenceburg Public Elementary School.

The honorable Mrs. Gayle Sowell served as Mayor of Anderson from 2004 until present.

Unlike gray matter, which peaks in development in a person's twenties, the white matter continues to develop, and peaks in middle age ( Sowell et al., 2003 ).

A separate establishment was accordingly assigned to him, with Lieutenant Sowell, R. E., as governor.

A study of the tragedy appeared with the publication of July 2, 1903: The Mysterious Death of Big Ed Delahanty, by Mike Sowell ( New York, Toronto, MacMillan Publishing Co., 1992 ).

Sowell et al., reported that the first 6 decades of an individual's life were correlated with the most rapid decreases in grey matter density, and this occurred over dorsal, frontal, and parietal lobes on both interhemispheric and lateral brain surfaces.

Sowell et al., also reported that these anterior language cortices were found to mature and decline earlier than the more posterior language cortices.

Basic's list of authors includes Christopher Andrew, Anthony Appiah, Isaac Asimov, Robert Axelrod, Susan R. Barry, Daniel Bell, John Bradshaw, Allan Brandt, Richard Brookhiser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, William F. Buckley, Stephen Carter, Iris Chang, George Chauncey, Stephanie Coontz, Dinesh D ’ Souza, Devra Davis, Richard Dawkins, Hernando de Soto, Jared Diamond, Michael Eric Dyson, Thomas B. Edsall, Richard Evans, Graham Farmelo, Niall Ferguson, Richard Feynman, Richard Florida, Robin Lane Fox, Sigmund Freud, Howard Gardner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Clifford Geertz, George Gilder, Barry Glassner, Robert Harms, Judith L. Herman, Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Hofstadter, Samuel P. Huntington, Jacqueline Jones, June Jordan, Leszek Kołakowski, Lawrence Krauss, Irving Kristol, George Lakoff, Edward Larson, Christopher Lasch, Mary Lefkowitz, Lawrence Lessig, Claude Levi-Strauss, Bernard Lewis, Robert Jay Lifton, Jeff Madrick, Nelson Mandela, Benoit Mandelbrot, Ernst Mayr, Walter A. McDougall, John McWhorter, Dana Milbank, Alice Miller, Walter Mosley, Charles Murray, Richard John Neuhaus, Donald Norman, Robert Nozick, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., James T. Patterson, Orlando Patterson, Jean Piaget, Steven Pinker, Karl Popper, Samantha Power, Diane Ravitch, Eugene Rogan, Juliet Schor, Brent Scowcroft, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Lee Smolin, Timothy Snyder, Thomas Sowell, Ian Stewart, Cass Sunstein, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Lester Thurow, Sherry Turkle, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Michael Walzer, Elizabeth Warren, George Weigel, Steven Weinberg, Cornel West, Frank Wilczek, A. N.

In 1983, economist Thomas Sowell of Stanford University wrote " Jewish family incomes are the highest of any large ethnic group in the US-72 % above the national average.

Sowell said of California's controls in 2001: " Since the utility companies have been paying more for electricity than they were allowed to charge their customers, they were operating in the red and the financial markets are downgrading their bonds.

According to Sowell, MacDonald examined the claim that police officers pull black drivers over because they are black, and found that the empirical evidence did not support the claim.

Economist Thomas Sowell in his Knowledge and Decisions argues that since the original designers of the Constitution provided for the process of changing it, they never intended for their original words to change meaning.

Sowell repeatedly dismisses the necessity that order comes from design, and notes that fallacious animistic arguments tend to provide explanations that require comparatively little time to implement.

Conservative economist Thomas Sowell has noted the converse relationship, noting that conservatives tend to have a hereditarian view of human nature ( Sowell calls this the " constrained " view ) and liberals tend to have a behaviorist (" unconstrained ") view.

In his testimony, Sowell said that Bork was " the most highly qualified nominee of this generation " and that judicial activism, a concept that Bork opposed, " has not been beneficial to minorities.

Thomas Sowell claimed that, despite its political prominence, no trickle-down theory has ever existed among economists.

Sowell replied that Stockman " was not even among the first thousand people to make that claim " but that " not one of those who made the claim could provide a single quote from anybody who had advocated a ' trickle-down theory.

Neoliberal economists Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams, among others, argue against laws that interfere with large price changes.

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Ernie and Rose Cumberbatch were blue collar, working class Democrats, while their son Goodie was an assertive conservative activist in the vein of Armstrong Williams, Walter Williams, or Thomas Sowell.