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6 Nov 2011, 5:37 pm
Moreover, although what I have outlined are measures that could be instituted immediately, their effect would be delayed, creating the following dilemmas: while the surplus public employees are seeking jobs, they will have to be supported; collecting taxes and slashing pensions and other entitlements will reduce household income and thus reduce consumption and in turn production; and uncertainty about the nation’s economic future will discourage business formation and expansion even… [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 6:55 pm
I favor vouchers, but they are no panacea. [read post]
22 Jul 2012, 1:11 pm
I think the answer lies in the nature of banking, understood broadly as financial intermediation: if A has money he’d like to save and B needs money, then rather than A lending directly to B A might lend to C to lend to B, because C—a bank—is a specialist in assessing creditworthiness. [read post]
28 May 2012, 6:44 am
The change in the financing of college from the 1950s, when I was growing up, is dramatic. [read post]
10 Jun 2012, 3:00 pm
Another reason is that household savings are still below historic standards because of the depression in housing prices (and as I said a house is the most valuable asset that most households have) and because of continued economic anxiety people want to increase their savings—and savings are the obverse of borrowing. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 9:46 am
In that sense, Beard’s work was a logical extension of Becker’s theory into the post-Revolutionary War era. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 2:45 pm
I term these payments “bounties. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 5:03 am
The big story that I missed this week is the refocused Congressional attention on the passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act on Capitol Hill. [read post]
9 Aug 2006, 2:13 pm
Becker and Murphy’s important book on the topic); (3) use of the consumer welfare metric in antitrust analysis is supported by folks from just about every “school” of economics that you can think of. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 2:39 am
I found this odd. [read post]
11 Sep 2012, 7:06 pm
Peter Quinter (Becker: The number you have reached is no longer in service.)Crapp.D. [read post]
12 May 2011, 7:00 am
Becker Bros. [read post]
14 May 2010, 9:24 am
If you have been reading the books about how irrational we are (e.g., Nudge, Predictably Irrational), I suggest you listen to the interview and then read the article "Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink" (The Weekly Standard).Article excerpt:Asked about behavioral economics in an interview recently, the neoclassical economist Gary Becker summed up his reservations. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 9:26 am
Becker: We have had many reports from Bagram about sleep deprivation being used. [read post]
11 Apr 2009, 2:52 pm
Ohio) Sometimes a judge just decides to opine on the state of the law, as I fondly remember Judge Edward Becker doing: often enough, a Judge Becker opinion would tour both the basics and the intricacies of the area of the law at issue in a case, whether the tour was necessary to get to the final destination or not. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 8:38 am
Plus, there's no such thing as the "unpolluted prior," comprising the "true," pre-social meaning, utility value of a given commodity.Now, I don't comprehensively subscribe to the Gary Becker of advertising as just (or even primarily) offering useful information - although that clearly is one part of what may be happening. [read post]
28 Sep 2013, 11:00 pm
It’s complicated, but Bruce Becker at FoodquestTD and Dr. [read post]
20 Aug 2009, 1:22 am
FINRA Announces Amendments to Conflicts of Interest Rules A few months ago, I noted in the blog that the SEC had approved changes to NASD Rule 2720, which deals with underwriter conflicts of interest. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 1:06 am
As I explained in Interrogating Ethnography, it is reasonable for ethnographers to commit victimless crimes (as when Howard Becker smoked weed with jazz musicians) or to violate cruel and discriminatory laws (as in Laud Humphreys’ research on homosexuality). [read post]
22 Jul 2007, 11:06 am
Becker, The Emergence of Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century: A privileged moment in the history of England, Scotland, and France (Indiana UP 1994).) [read post]
