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29 Oct 2011, 2:11 pm
His name was Gary Ridgway. [read post]
29 Oct 2011, 2:11 pm
His name was Gary Ridgway. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 9:34 pm
Gary Becker: Becker continues the theme of arguing that the future lies in coordination between specialist theorists and econometricians, Becker also argues that a robust area for future law and economics research lies at the “macro” level, i.e. how legal institutions and rules impact economic growth and how macroeconomic developments influence legal institutions. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 8:01 am
University of Chicago has unveiled a large-scale plan to build out its Law and Economics capacity, including more joint appointments (including Gary Becker, James Heckman, Steven Levitt, John List and Kevin Murphy), new hires, an Institute for Law and Economics, and legal education for judges. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 4:53 am
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 Jul 2011, 6:16 am
Its past presidents 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]
10 Jun 2011, 6:47 am
' here and Gary Becker's 'Another Tech Bubble in the Offing? [read post]
30 May 2011, 6:43 am
BECKER, University of Chicago - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business. [read post]
19 May 2011, 4:23 pm
Those interested in how the government subsidizes various factions of the energy sector in the US could do a lot worse than reading Gary Becker's concise piece on the topic on The Becker-Posner Blog. [read post]
8 May 2011, 9:51 am
Human capital can be defined in a number of ways, but I like Gary Becker’s definition best: …because people cannot be separated from their knowledge, skills, health, or values in the way they can be separated from their financial and physical assets. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 6:21 am
There are essays focusing on: Ronald Coase, Aaron Director, George Stigler, Armen Alchian, Harold Demsetz, Benjamin Klein, James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, Henry Manne, Richard Posner, Gary Becker, William Landes, Richard Epstein, Guido Calabresi, Frank Easterbrook, Daniel Fischel, Steven Shavell and A. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 2:20 pm
Economist Gary Becker summarizes the arguments against the cartel here: Every year prior to this final tournament, and sometimes even during the tournament, different violations become public of NCAA rules on behavior of players and coaches. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 9:01 pm
There are a couple of insightful posts by Becker and Posner on the Middle East Uprisings and the Economy. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 9:01 pm
There are a couple of insightful posts by Becker and Posner on the Middle East Uprisings and the Economy. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 9:02 pm
Yet since the early 1990s and even during the last decade, the facts are the opposite: the average earnings premiums of college graduates in the US, and especially the premiums of persons with a post-graduate education, have continued to increase, despite the growth in the numbers of educated persons in the labor force (this evidence can be found in “Explaining the Worldwide Boom in the Higher Education of Women” by Gary Becker, William Hubbard, and Kevin Murphy, The… [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 7:39 am
The court reasons as follows: In crafting a punishment that will most adequately deter similar conduct by other individuals in the future, the Court is influenced by the writings of Nobel Prize winning economist Gary Becker. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 10:01 pm
Gary Becker makes a good point about a frequent topic on this blog - the enormous cost of the government's drug prohibition policy: [The Miron and Waldock study does] a good job of estimating the amount directly spent by the United States in fighting the war on drugs. [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 9:31 am
6 Dec 2010, 10:22 am
My principal (as a matter of fact my sole) authority for this proposition (though some of Gary Becker’s work also comes to mind) is the magnificent classic article by Armen Alchian, Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory, 58 JPE 211 (1950). [read post]
26 Nov 2010, 10:35 am
Nobel Laureate economist Gary Becker’s decision tree (HT: Freakonomics, from the new illustrated SuperFreakonomics): Filed under: economics [read post]
