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•Oct 28, 2014
The Heritage Foundation
No economist of modern times has challenged and overturned more wrong-headed economic thinking than Walter Williams. For forty years he’s argued against the illogic of the minimum wage, racial quotas, occupational licensing as well as the welfare state. What drives his liberal critics crazy is his provocative argument that these government interventions hurt the very people they are designed to help
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I heard Thomas Sowell remark that in the old days Walter used to kid around with him and say that they should never be on the same plane together because if that plane ever went down every black conservative in America would be gone. Walter is a genius.
Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell: two national treasures.