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24 Jun 2009, 9:40 pm
Gary Becker's Contributions to Law and Economics John F. [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 6:45 pm
Finally, the "Commentary" section links to the following blogs: Antitrust & Competition (Daniel Sokol), Antitrust Lawyer Blog, Antitrust Today, Becker-Posner Blog (U of C’s Gary Becker & Richard Posner). [read post]
20 Jan 2007, 8:40 am
Gary Becker and Richard Posner have posted an interesting exchange, at the Becker-Posner blog, on the topic of libertarian paternalism, but they seem to have another subject in mind. [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 2:40 pm
Becker, A Treatise on the Family(1981). [10]Richard A. [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 2009, 7:38 am
Gary Hobson: That's not what I meant. [read post]
27 Feb 2009, 12:14 pm
Gary Becker: During his confirmation hearing before the United States Senate toward the end of January, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner accused China of "manipulating" its currency. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 7:46 pm
As Brian Tamanaha has noted, the current financial situation appears to have prompted Posner, Gary Becker, and others (though perhaps not Easterbrook) to reconsider the efficacy of a law-and-economics orthodoxy. [read post]
12 Aug 2007, 11:01 pm
Even though divorce rates are declining over all, as far back as 1977 the economist Gary Becker showed that couples experiencing any unexpected, drastic rise in net worth are at risk of divorce. [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 2:00 pm
” In opposition to this position, Leslie Lenkowsky (Professor of Public Affairs and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University), argues: “Whatever one might think of her judgment in leaving the bulk of her estate to care for dogs, it was her money, and as the Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker wrote in his blog, "Respecting individual preferences, no matter how idiosyncratic, is one important measure of a free… [read post]
21 Nov 2006, 6:10 am
Now, however, the Freedom From Religion Foundation has written Mayor Gary Becker arguing that in hosting a Nativity scene, the city is endorsing a religion. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 3:00 am
Elections Ohio: “Ohio Judge Says Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s One Ballot Drop Box Per County Rule Is ‘Arbitrary and Unreasonable’” by Andrew Tobias for Cleveland Plain Dealer Ethics National: “Pro-Trump Youth Group Enlists Teens in Secretive Campaign Likened to a ‘Troll Farm,’ Prompting Rebuke by Facebook and Twitter” by Isaac Stanley-Becker (Washington Post) for MSN National: “Criminal Probe Opened into John Bolton… [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 8:00 pm
Becker, Uncommon Sense Charles R. [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]
15 Oct 2010, 12:45 pm
We will present the theory as defended by Gary Becker, Richard Posner and James Coleman (as well as others) at the University of Chicago from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, we will discuss its epistemological assumptions and predictions and we will also examine the most important arguments against it. [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 6:08 am
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]
14 Feb 2018, 3:30 am
” 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]
7 Nov 2010, 11:17 am
Not only revived, but presented by its supporters, including President Obama, as what all economists believed in—a claim that provoked a newspaper ad signed by a large number who didn't.The truth is that, as Gary Becker puts it in a recent blog post, "The unpleasant fact we economists have to face is that there is not strong evidence on the actual effects of governmental spending on employment and GDP. [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]
5 Oct 2007, 1:05 am
The Becker-Posner Blog, with Gary Becker and Judge Posner, is always good with highly intellectual posts on a variety of topics, usually with lots of provocative comments. [read post]
