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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

At first, I thought,well, this is good because all thesepeople are poor and they'll geta...

At first, I thought,
well, this is good because all these
people are poor and they'll get
a little higher income, and so that'll be helpful

Full Transcript

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At first, I thought, well, this is good
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because all these people are poor
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and they'll get a little higher income,
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and so that'll be helpful.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:24:42
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Free To Choose Enterprise

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Movie Summary

Traces Thomas Sowell's journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of our era's most controversial economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors.
And then as I studied economics, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
And then as I studied economics,
When I was at the Labor Department, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
When I was at the Labor Department,
And when I came up with how we might test this, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:11
And when I came up with how we might test this,
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He found out that people in the government - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
He found out that people in the government
And that's what shocked him and caused him - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
And that's what shocked him and caused him
So it wasn't academia that caused him - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
So it wasn't academia that caused him
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He actually taught in the years leading up to that at Cornell, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:18
He actually taught in the years leading up to that at Cornel...
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Like many other colleges, it became a focal point - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
Like many other colleges, it became a focal point
When armed black students took over a building on campus, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
When armed black students took over a building on campus,
Blacks had been recruited to Cornell under lower standards - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:13
Blacks had been recruited to Cornell under lower standards
For Sowell, it was an example of the unintended consequences - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
For Sowell, it was an example of the unintended consequences
Tom's tenure at Cornell - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
Tom's tenure at Cornell
I think it left a very, very bitter taste in his mouth. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
I think it left a very, very bitter taste in his mouth.
He discovered that many black students at Cornell, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
He discovered that many black students at Cornell,
And that's when he first came up with the idea - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
And that's when he first came up with the idea