![]() Sowell was so taken by the subject matter, and so impressed by Stigler's command of it, that he turned his own focus toward the history of ideas and resolved to do his graduate work at Columbia under Stigler's guidance. The original plan was to pursue his doctorate at Columbia University, where he had just earned his master's degree, and study under another future Nobel economist, George Stigler.Īs an undergraduate at Harvard in a course on the history of economic thought, Sowell had read an academic article by Stigler on the theories of the classical economist David Ricardo. But Sowell hadn't gone there to study under Friedman, and the University of Chicago hadn't been his first choice. studies, Milton Friedman had been on the faculty for more than a decade. ![]() When Thomas Sowell arrived at the University of Chicago in the fall of 1959 to begin his Ph.D. ![]()
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