At least Dr. X would be a doctor.
When did Thomas Sowell become an economist?
You are aware he has a Ph.D in economics, right?
Well, all I remembered when I posted that was remembering his by-line as being the Milton Friedman Chair at Stanford. I think Friedman did some of that stuff.
But I also looked it up for you. Not sure at which point you'd say he "became" an economist. Maybe he was born one?
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