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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

When the private sectorfails to create jobs at a fast enough rate, you find that peopleare...

When the private sector
fails to create jobs at a fast enough rate, you find that people
are unemployed and drift into needing help

Full Transcript

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When the private sector fails to create jobs
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at a fast enough rate,
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you find that people are unemployed
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and drift into needing help.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
00:20:27
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.
I think it is overly broad to say - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
I think it is overly broad to say
I don't remember talking to anyone who's ever - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
I don't remember talking to anyone who's ever
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All of the little adjustments that you fiddle with - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
All of the little adjustments that you fiddle with
If you close down the diaphragm, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
If you close down the diaphragm,
On the other hand, you're cutting down - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
On the other hand, you're cutting down
And a theme in Tom's work on society - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
And a theme in Tom's work on society
And Tom often loses patience at people with sweeping visions. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
And Tom often loses patience at people with sweeping visions...
And Tom points out in his political writings - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
And Tom points out in his political writings
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Here is where some of the most influential - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
Here is where some of the most influential
It's called The Chicago School of Economics. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
It's called The Chicago School of Economics.
And it's where Tom would be mentored by intellectual giants - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:13
And it's where Tom would be mentored by intellectual gi...
I was a graduate student here from 1960 to '64. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
I was a graduate student here from 1960 to '64.
The thing I learned as a graduate student - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:19
The thing I learned as a graduate student
At Chicago, if it was true, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
At Chicago, if it was true,
It was true because you had the evidence, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
It was true because you had the evidence,
They explored the specific ways - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
They explored the specific ways