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11 Jul 2019, 10:02 am by Tom Smith
 An immigration tariff is an attempt, based largely on Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker’s idea to sell visas, to create a market-based visa that accounts for many of the most trenchant criticisms of liberalized immigration  The idea is simply to create a new visa called a Gold Card without numerical quotas or caps. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:24 am by Daniel Shaviro
A 50% chance of being correct would easily meet that threshold.The solution to this incentive problem was stated long ago in work by Gary Becker concerning efficient crime deterrence. [read post]
28 Jan 2019, 10:01 am by Christine Corcos
Neoliberal economic analysis of law, championed by Richard Posner and Gary Becker, also offered to redefine crime as “market bypassing” in order to promote wealth maximization. [read post]
28 Jan 2019, 10:01 am
Neoliberal economic analysis of law, championed by Richard Posner and Gary Becker, also offered to redefine crime as “market bypassing” in order to promote wealth maximization. [read post]
3 Aug 2018, 3:00 am by Gail Heriot
This paper tests this using a model of discrimination based on the work of Nobel Prize-winning economists Gary Becker and Kenneth Arrow in order to measure the "rank gap"—the difference in the ranking of a hiring law school based on one's political orientation after controlling for other predictors of that ranking (clerkships, publications, the law school one graduated from, etc.). [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 1:34 pm by scottgaille
  These include Nobel Laureates Ronald Coase and Gary Becker, University of Chicago Professors Richard Epstein and Cass Sunstein, and U.S. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 3:30 am by Mary Crossley
” By drawing on philosophy (primarily Foucault) and neoliberal economic theory (for example, Gary Becker’s human capital theory), Hull and Pasquale unveil harms associated with employer wellness programs that go beyond concerns about worker privacy and their disparate impact on unhealthy or disabled employees. [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 6:08 am by Jim Sedor
Dawnna Dukes Over Late Campaign Finance Report in 2016” by Ryan Autullo for Austin American-Statesman Ethics “Trump’s Son Met with Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton” by Jo Becker, Matt Apuzzo, and Adam Goldman for New York Times “White House Relied Upon Dark Money Lobbyist to ‘Quarterback’ Gorsuch Confirmation” by Margaret Sassa-Hawkins and Andrew Perez for MapLight.org “Watchdog Groups Fear for Ethics… [read post]
16 Nov 2016, 1:34 pm by Adam Levitin
(or "have a taste for discrimination" in Gary Becker's terminology). [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 8:38 am by Daniel Shaviro
 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]
10 Feb 2016, 11:43 am by Daniel Shaviro
  Also, despite the Gary Becker-Kevin Murphy “rational addiction” model, there is reason to doubt that smokers should be viewed as having optimized correctly, from their standpoints, via consumption that merely happens to have highly front-loaded benefits.Marron has elsewhere written about designing taxes to address internalities, and one of the points he makes, in distinguishing them from externalities, could be explained as follows. [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 5:55 pm by Colin O'Keefe
Legal Help Websites Are Not As “Helpful” As They Seem – Sarah Klein of Becker & Poliakoff on the firm’s blog, Biz Law Today What the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Same-Sex Marriage Ban Means to Contractors? [read post]