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20 Jan 2014, 3:05 pm
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]
14 Sep 2013, 4:42 pm
Gary S. [read post]
19 Aug 2013, 4:30 am
Monroe, Gary. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 1:47 pm
A good friend of mine, Nobel Laureate in Economics Gary Becker, and his colleagues estimated in 2005 that the direct costs are over $100 billion annually in police services, court time, effort spent on offenders, and imprisonment—a minimum of about $40,000 per year per prisoner. [read post]
22 Jul 2013, 1:22 pm
He clarified at a conference a few months ago that he's not advocating "abolition or anything", but he's given interviews such as this one to Reuters, spoken at different events, authored opinion pieces (such as Why There Are Too Many Patents in America), and just this weekend the Becker-Posner blog (co-authored by Judge Posner and Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker) published two posts relating to the current patent reform debate (Posner, Becker).With… [read post]
1 Jul 2013, 6:25 am
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]
19 Jun 2013, 9:11 am
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10 Apr 2013, 11:23 am
” Especially if raising revenue is distortionary because lump sum taxes are unavailable, then imposing non-cash costs on people often is worse than getting tax revenues, but better than paying out cash subsidies.Consider Gary Becker on jail time vs. fines. [read post]
9 Apr 2013, 12:49 am
Schultz (Former Treasury Secretary and Secretary of State) & Gary Becker (University of Chicago, Department of Economics): [W]e should seek out the many forms of subsidy that run through the entire energy enterprise and eliminate them.... [read post]
8 Feb 2013, 4:00 am
This week at Idea/Expression: Amici urge reversal in GSU digital coursepack case — A look at arguments raised by appellants and their supporters in Cambridge Univ Press v Becker. [read post]
11 Jan 2013, 1:56 pm
” That’s the opinion of Nobel-prize-winning economist Gary Becker, a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institute. [read post]
7 Jan 2013, 12:06 am
5 Jan 2013, 7:04 pm
Ilya Somin at The Volokh Conspiracy excerpts this column from The Wall Street Journal. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 7:24 pm
Gary M. [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 1:35 am
Giants such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, Robert Lucas, and Eugene... [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 8:59 pm
Inside Out China: Chongqing Dispatch: Wang Lijun's Planned Police Monument http://t.co/vowk6ylh @insideoutchina -> Legislature deliberates report on Chinese prisons http://t.co/b7tR2kIx -> Forbes: Nobel Laureate Gary Becker Says U.S. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 7:42 am
In one of the chapters on criminal law, Polinsky (quoted below) explores the application of the Coase Theorem as viewed through the work of Gary Becker (“Crime and Punishment: An Economics Approach,” 76 J. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 10:03 am
Gary Becker responds. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 10:24 pm
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]
10 Dec 2011, 1:12 pm
Authored by two leading scholars from America, the Nobel economist Gary Becker and U.S. [read post]
