George Orwell warned, “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” That is the challenge, not allowing language and ill-defined terms to corrupt thought that I face in teaching economics to both graduate and undergraduate students. Terms that are widely used can have considerable emotional worth but little or no analytical value, ambiguous [...]

Walter Williams, PhD
Dr. Williams has served on the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, since 1980. The author of over 150 articles appearing in various scholarly journals; Williams is also the author of six books.