Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
Born in North Carolina, Sowell grew up in Harlem, New York. He dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and later served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. Upon returning to the United States, Sowell enrolled at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude in 1958.
He received a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1959 and earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968.
