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1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Quelle: 1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Quelle: 2000s, A Personal Odyssey (2000), Ch. 5 : Halls of Ivy
Kontext: In the summer of 1959, as in the summer of 1957, I worked as a clerk-typist in the headquarters of the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington. The people I worked for were very nice and I grew to like them. One day, a man had a heart attack at around 5 PM, on the sidewalk outside the Public Health Service. He was taken inside to the nurse's room, where he was asked if he was a government employee. If he were, he would have been eligible to be taken to a medical facility there. Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance. By the time this ambulance made its way through miles of Washington rush-hour traffic, the man was dead. He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.
Quelle: 1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Student Loans
1980s–1990s, Is Reality Optional? (1993)
Quelle: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
Quelle: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (2011), p.397
“Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”
Bogeyman Economics
1980s–1990s, Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays (1987)
Quelle: Compassion Versus Guilt, and Other Essays: And Other Essays
“Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?”
Quelle: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays
Big Lies in Politics http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/05/22/big_lies_in_politics/page/full, 22 May 2012.
2010s
“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
Quelle: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
"Socialism for the Uninformed" http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/05/31/socialism-for-the-uninformed-n2171042, 31 May 2016
2010s
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/09/03/random_thoughts?page=full&comments=true, Sep 03, 2007
2000s
Random Thoughts http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell101705.asp, Oct. 17, 2005
2000s
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/08/26/random_thoughts?page=full&comments=true, 26 August 2008.
2000s
“Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance.”
Quelle: 2000s, A Personal Odyssey (2000), Ch. 5 : Halls of Ivy
Kontext: In the summer of 1959, as in the summer of 1957, I worked as a clerk-typist in the headquarters of the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington. The people I worked for were very nice and I grew to like them. One day, a man had a heart attack at around 5 PM, on the sidewalk outside the Public Health Service. He was taken inside to the nurse's room, where he was asked if he was a government employee. If he were, he would have been eligible to be taken to a medical facility there. Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance. By the time this ambulance made its way through miles of Washington rush-hour traffic, the man was dead. He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.
Social Deterioration
1980s–1990s, Is Reality Optional? (1993)
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/05/01/random_thoughts, May 01, 2007
2000s
Random Thought
2000s, Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays (2006)
Quelle: Knowledge And Decisions
