Envy plus rhetoric equals 'social justice'. - Thomas Sowell

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Envy plus rhetoric equals 'social justice'.

Thomas Sowell

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About Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and political commentator. He taught economics at Cornell University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and since 1980 at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is currently Senior Fellow.

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