I have read a couple of books by Thomas Sowell. He's an economist that also comments on things. Over the years he's written a lot of really good stuff and has a lot of really good quotes out there. Many of the quotes are memes that float by in my streams.
The books that I've read by him were usually compilations of columns that he wrote for newspapers. I enjoyed them and I got a lot out of them. My favorite chapters were the columns that he titled Thoughts on the Passing Scene.
In those, he would just shoot off one-liners for an entire column or, in my case, chapter in a book. Those comments were inspirations for me and my style of writing. I'm not as erudite as he is, and I'm not the best raconteur.
But I learned a lot from him. And even though the way I passed economics classes in college was to find the biggest guy and then sleep on the desk behind him during lectures, Thomas Sowell's ideas on economic policy are sound and he explains them well.
Check out "Barbarians Inside The Gates" by Thomas Sowell:
https://a.co/d/16Nr8CX
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