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21 Mar 2009, 6:11 am
Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy:Capitalism has been wounded by the global recession, which unfortunately will get worse before it gets better. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 10:24 pm by Josh Wright
Fruit trees in a number of cities, including San Francisco, are prevented from bearing fruit in the name of “protecting” pedestrians from slip and falls and keeping away insects and vermin. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 4:53 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Adler) Nobel-laureate economist Gary Becker provides a useful reminder that the existence of widespread “market failures,” such as those that contributed to the financial collapse and subsequent recession, does not by itself justify government intervention. [read post]
19 Jan 2009, 1:14 pm
1-19-2009 Wisconsin: How law enforcement officers catch Internet predators On Thursday, Racine Mayor Gary Becker joined hundreds of other suspected child predators who have been charged with attempted sexual assault of a child following an online sting operation by state agents. [read post]
28 Jan 2009, 7:18 am
The University of Chicago's Gary Becker, another Nobel laureate, warns that 'the true value of these government programs may be limited because they will be put together hastily, and are likely to contain a lot of political pork and other inefficiencies.'""In the end, this near-depression is likely to be a transformative event for macroeconomics. [read post]
2 Feb 2014, 6:20 am by Kim Krawiec
In my last few posts, I’ve been discussing the controversy generated by Gary Becker and Julio Elias’s recent essay advocating for kidney markets, Cash for Kidneys: The Case for a Market for Organs. [read post]
5 Jan 2013, 7:04 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Ilya Somin at The Volokh Conspiracy excerpts this column from The Wall Street Journal. [read post]
13 Oct 2008, 10:08 am
" if they will refrain from saying, "Nobel Prize winner [Gary Becker, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, fill in the blanks at will] pointed out [in some commentary not organically connected to the work for which the named person received the prize] that ... [read post]
19 Jan 2009, 1:20 pm
  And I'm willing to bet, since it's all done by police, and not some wanna-be vigilante group, most cases hold up in court, unlike PJ's. 01/17/2009 By Marci Laehr Tenuta - Journal Times How law enforcement officers catch Internet predators On Thursday, Racine Mayor Gary Becker joined... [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 3:05 pm by Kim Krawiec
In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, Gary Becker and Julio Elias have an essay, Cash for Kidneys: The Case for a Market for Organs, in which they argue that paying donors for their organs would eliminate the supply-demand gap without greatly increasing the cost of a kidney transplant. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 8:35 am
And co-blogger Gary Becker offers this response to Judge Posner's post. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 10:44 am
Nobel Prize winning economist Gary Becker performed a now famous study on the effects of income in marriage back in 1977. [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 12:04 am
A must read interview with Nobel Laureate, Gary Becker. [read post]
Past presidents of the WEAI includes Nobel Laureates James Heckman (2007), Clive Granger (2003), Oliver Williamson (2000), Gary Becker (1997), Milton Friedman (1985), James Buchanan (1984), Kenneth Arrow (1981) and Douglass North (1976). [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 8:27 am
Gary Becker thinks the most addictive thing in the world is... [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 6:44 am by Ray Dowd
Gary BeckerRichard PosnerThe Becker-Posner Bloghttp://www.becker-posner-blog.com/index.html3. [read post]