Thomas Sowell was one of the greatest champions of free market economics America has ever produced. He dedicated his life to explaining, in plain language, why economic freedom works and government centralization doesn't.
The great-grandson of slaves, he harbored no resentment toward his country. On the contrary, he spent fifty years making the case that America's founding principles were worth defending.
His most foundational insight is a brilliant truth and a direct rebuke to the popular socialist ideas of his day and today: no government, no matter how smart the people running it, can ever have enough information to run an economy well.
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