John Cogan

John Cogan is the Leonard and Shirley Ely Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research focuses on U.S. budget and fiscal policy and federal entitlement programs; he is also an economist and former Stanford faculty member.

Thomas Sowell Used Economic History and Evidence to Challenge Conventional Wisdom

Hoover economists John Cogan, Michael Boskin and David Henderson trace Thomas Sowell’s influence to a method that joined economic history with close scrutiny of assumptions and evidence. They argue that Sowell used that method to challenge ideas from Say’s Law to Keynesian economics, then brought economic reasoning to a broad readership through clear prose and concrete examples.

Hoover InstitutionOct 1, 202611 min read