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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2493 Thomas Sowell vs. Conventional Wisdom

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Germinal Van, author of a new intellectual biography of Thomas Sowell, discusses the man's insights into economics, race, the "gender pay gap," and plenty more. Sponsors: & Book Discussed:

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Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:05.0

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods show.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here, it is episode 2493 of the Tom Woods show and I am

0:17.1

delighted to be joined by our friend germanel g van who runs G g g v.

0:23.0

publishing company and who is the author of all right with the Thomas soul book how many is it?

0:29.6

This is book 28.

0:31.6

28 books. Okay.

0:33.0

Oh, 29. I think no, I think it's 29.

0:35.0

29.

0:36.0

I think you have to speed up because we need to have the number of books equal the number of years you've been on earth because you're so close.

0:42.0

You're so close, close you know you weren't

0:44.4

writing books when you were one or two or three but it it seems like you were

0:48.4

anyway we're talking today about his book Thomas sole Soul, a misunderstood economist.

0:53.7

He's one of my favorite people in the world.

0:56.2

As I mentioned in our previous episode,

0:58.6

I read his syndicated column all the way back

1:00.8

when I was in high school.

1:02.4

My father introduced me to his work and then I found

1:05.2

that he had written books. So I started reading some of the books. I have several of them on the shelf

1:09.7

behind me. How many books did soul write? Do you know offhand?

1:13.0

He wrote about 49.

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Oh, okay.

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