WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:16:01 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Sowell, Thomas – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Sowell, Thomas -- “Student Loans,” Is Reality Optional? (1993) https://wist.info/sowell-thomas/44286/ https://wist.info/sowell-thomas/44286/#respond Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:47:29 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=44286 The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.


Thomas Sowell (b. 1930) American economist and political commentator
“Student Loans,” Is Reality Optional? (1993)
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Thomas Sowell (b. 1930) American economist and political commentator
Compassion vs. Guilt, and Other Essays (1987)
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