Jason Riley

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Jason Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal.

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  • Hallmark of Economist Thomas Sowell’s Scholarship: Questioning Orthodox Thinking

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    The following is excerpted from Jason Riley’s book “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell,” about the iconoclastic economist. The book is available here. Though he’s better known for his writings on racial controversies, Thomas Sowell spent the early part of his career writing mostly about economic history. After releasing an undergraduate economics textbook in 1971, he…
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  • Economist Sowell’s Long March From Marxism to Free Markets—With a Little Help From His Friends Friedman and Hayek

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  • How Economist Thomas Sowell’s Warning About Combating Racial Disparities Came True

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