RIP: Economist and champion of liberty Walter Williams has died

Well, a heavyweight has passed away: Walter Williams.

Wiliams was a free-market economist who was as influential as Thomas Sowell. He did a great job providing economic analysis for the layman, ditching the technical stuff. Williams was also phenomenal in exposing the socialists, progressive racists, and the anti-capitalists.

Also, check this out from the Economic Policy Journal:

He was the author of over 150 publications which have appeared in scholarly journals such as Economic Inquiry, American Economic Review, Georgia Law Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Social Science Quarterly, and Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy and popular publications such as Newsweek, Ideas on Liberty, National Review, Reader’s Digest, Cato Journal, and Policy Review. He authored ten books: America: A Minority Viewpoint, The State Against Blacks, which was later made into the PBS documentary “Good Intentions,” All It Takes Is Guts, South Africa’s War Against Capitalism, which was later revised for South African publication, Do the Right Thing: The People’s Economist Speaks, More Liberty Means Less Government, Liberty vs. the Tyranny of Socialism, Up From The Projects: An Autobiography, Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed On Discrimination? and American Contempt for Liberty.

Rest in peace, Mr. Williams. You will be missed at a time when liberty needs you most!