Seeing his left-wing ideas put into practice in government turned him against them

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What Thomas Sowell actually said

Thomas Sowell c. 1980 Economist and social theorist, born in 1930

I suppose if I gave one turning point it would be when I took a job in the government, in the Labor Department, in 1960. When I saw all these ideas I believed in, being put into practice I became horrified.

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↗Interview with Thomas Sowell (Reason, December 1980)reason.com

c. 1980

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