Who is Michael Coburn?

By his own definition Michael Coburn is not normal.

From his DeFunCted blog: 'I spend a good deal of time on the
Washington State Ferry system commuting between my much smaller home
on the Olympic peninsula and West Seattle. And I have invested some
time [on] it conducting a sort of informal survey among the people I
am able to speak with on the ferry. I tell them that I am an amateur
economist (which I have been for no less than 20 years) and that I am
attempting to determine what normal people (which I quickly define as
those who are not preoccupied with economics) think that "The Economy"
might be...' [...an enormous amount of jibberish]

"20 years" as an amateur economist and his favorite quote is by Bart
Simpson -- "These are my opinions, and you can't have em"

More likly Michael Coburn is 20 years of age!
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Who is the distinguished Thomas Sowell which the "abnormal" Michael
Coburn describes as "rightarded"?

A Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow
The Hoover Institution
Stanford University

EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago, 1968
A.M. in Economics, Columbia University, 1959
A.B. in Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1958

EXPERIENCE:
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, September 1980
- present
Professor of Economics, U.C.L.A., July 1974 - June 1980
Visiting Professor of Economics, Amherst College, September- December
1977
Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, April- August 1977
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, July
1976 - March 1977
Project Director, The Urban Institute, August 1972 - July 1974
Associate Professor of Economics, U.C.L.A., September 1970 - June
1972
Associate Professor of Economics, Brandeis University, September 1969
- June 1970
Assistant Professor of Economics, Cornell University, September 1965 -
June 1969
Economic Analyst, American Telephone & TelegraphCo., June 1964 -
August 1965
Lecturer in Economics, Howard University, September 1963 - June 1964
Instructor in Economics, Douglass College, Rutgers University,
September 1962 - June 1963
Labor Economist, U.S. Department of Labor, June 1961 - August 1962

PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS:
On Classical Economics (Yale University Press, 2006)
Black Rednecks and White Liberals (Encounter Books, 2005)
The Quest for Cosmic Justice (Free Press,1999)
Conquests and Cultures (Basic Books, 1998)
Migrations and Cultures (Basic Books, 1996)
The Vision of the Anointed (Basic Books, 1995)
Race and Cultu A World View ( Basic Books,1994 )
A Conflict of Visions (William Morrow, 1987)
Ethnic America (Basic Books, 1981)
Knowledge and Decisions (Basic Books, 1980)
Say's Law: An Historical Analysis (Princeton University Press, 1972)

http://townhall.com/Columnists/ThomasSowell/