I don't actually mind Sowell's economic work that much. Not that I agree with it, but it's well-informed and intelligent and doesn't have a huge impact on the world.Thomas Sowell is the one that gave us Clarence Thomas - he's his biggest influence
He's as far right an economist as they've come and he's become the Black face of new classical macroeconomics and creating excuses for racism?
Because he's a conservative moron whose ideology should have died out with Friedman and Reagan but lives on by repackaging outmoded economics conclusions
It's when Sowell starts talking about anything outside of economics that he usually makes his biggest errors.