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Walter E. Williams
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Walter E. Williams (born 1936 in Philadelphia) is an American economist and college professor. He is also a syndicated columnist and author known for his libertarian and sometimes conservative views. He is an occasional guest host of Rush Limbaugh's radio program and Lawrence Kudlow's Kudlow & Company TV program.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972. Since being a graduate student at UCLA, he has been a friend of economist, historian and columnist Thomas Sowell. Correspondence between Sowell and Williams appears in the 2007 by "A Man of Letters" by Sowell. Williams has been a Professor of Economics at George Mason University since 1980, and chairman of that University's Economic's department from 1995 to 2001.
He has previously been on the faculty of Los Angeles City College, California State University - Los Angeles, Temple University, and Grove City College.
Williams is a champion of black education, frequently indicting the educational systems of inner city schools for perpetuating, in his words, a fraud against African-American students and families by lowered standards. He is also a critic of the minimum wage and affirmative action, believing that both practices are detrimental to blacks. Williams especially emphasizes his belief that racism and the legacy of slavery in the United States are overemphasized as problems faced by the black community and do not adequately explain the situation blacks face today.
Like most conservatives and libertarians, he criticizes gun control as endangering the innocent and failing to reduce crime.
Williams praises capitalism (of a laissez-faire variety) as being the most moral and most productive system man has ever devised. "Capitalism is relatively new in human history. Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man."[1]
He has gone on record as advocating the Free State Project in at least two columns and once on television. The Williams endorsement correlated with the largest single membership jump in the first 5000 phase of the project, a jump even higher than the results of the project being Slashdotted. He also believes in the right of U.S. states to secede from the union as several states attempted to do during the Civil War.[2] Williams has supported or been sympathetic toward various secessionist ideas in his writings.[3]
Williams has written hundreds of articles and his syndicated column is published weekly in approximately 140 newspapers across the United States, as well as on several web sites.[4]
Conservative comic strip Mallard Fillmore has launched a campaign to draft Williams for the Republican nomination in the 2008 United States presidential election.[5] Williams has stated that he is inundated with emails, but won't run, although he won't completely rule out the possibility. Instead, he endorsed Republican candidate Ron Paul.[6] Paul himself has suggested "[s]omebody like Walter Williams" as a running mate.[7]
Contents |
- ISBN 0-07-070378-7 The State Against Blacks (1984)
- ISBN 0-8179-7562-4 America: a Minority Viewpoint (1982)
- ISBN 0-89526-569-9 All It Takes Is Guts: A Minority View (1988)
- ISBN 0-275-93179-X South Africa's War Against Capitalism (1989)
- ISBN 0-8179-9382-7 Do the Right Thing: The People's Economist Speaks (1995)
- ISBN 0-8179-9612-5 More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (1999)
- ^ Williams, Walter (1997-08-25). Capitalism and the Common Man. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.
- ^ Williams, Walter (2005-03-22). DiLorenzo Is Right About Lincoln. LewRockwell.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.
- ^ Williams, Walter (2002-08-07). Parting company. WorldNetDaily. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.
- ^ Walter E. Williams Biographical Sketch. George Mason University. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.
- ^ http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard012907.asp
- ^ McCain, Robert Stacy. "Williams can't duck campaign pushes", Washington Post, 2007-02-09. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.
- ^ Akers, Mary Ann. "Do Tell: Ron Paul On Babies, Prostitution, Marijuana and Chocolate Chip Cookies", The Sleuth, Washington Post, 2007-05-25. Retrieved on 2007-07-30.
- His biography at GMU
- Syndicated articles (at townhall.com) (rss feed)(at Jewish World Review)
- Podcast featuring Williams Williams discusses economics and life on EconTalk.
- Walter Williams Quotes
- Biography and List of Articles written by Walter Williams at Capitalism Magazine
- Economics for the Citizen
- His Introduction (pdf) to Choosing the Right College
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