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I’m one of those who is familiar with Sowell only from the occasional column, and these seem to be, as suggested in the linked site, mostly boilerplate Republican hackery. Maybe his earlier work was more impressive, but I’m puzzled by this:
How to account for the many ways in which blacks were making more progress before passage of the Civil Rights Act than they were after? An impressive example: College-educated black women were out-earning college-educated white women by 1960, four years before the Civil Rights Act.
as evidence of lack of progress from the CRA, especially coming from an economist. Suppose we have two groups of people, equally talented on average but with variation within the groups. We let, say, the top 1% of group A go to college and the top 10% of group B. Isn’t it to be expected that the college graduates from group A will be brighter, harder-working, etc., than those from B, and that this is likely to translate into higher earnings?
Dr. Sowell, the economist and Marine, gets both economics and the war on terror right.
I liked both ‘ethnic america’ and ‘migrations and culture’. Sowell’s essays are pretty unimpressive though.
You should be aware that the comments section of the blog you link to on this matter has taken quite an interesting turn.
Should I take it that you endorse the debate there as one still worth having?
Q: Who is Thomas Sowell? A: Tyler Cowen with a ‘fro?
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