Please stop taking HN threads further into ideological flamewar. We don't want that here; it's tedious, predictable, and regularly turns nasty.

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Thomas Sowell is a great great thinker. People do not study his work because it doesn't fit well with MMT and the micromanaging of an economy. Not because he is black. This obsession with race is ridiculous.

This is an outrageous statement.

Thomas Sowell is a widely cited and studied economist. Many people study his work (including myself!). What does his being black have to do with anything? There is no group of people ignoring him for being black.

In fact, the contemporary politics would suggest that, since he's black, he'd be democrat, but his economics are very libertarian, a group more associated with racists. So what are you on about?

People don't "listen" to him because he's incredibly biased towards free-market economics, not because his skin color.