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29 Mar 2010, 5:34 am
[Associated Press] * Florida attorney Gary Dorst had a blast this weekend. [read post]
27 Mar 2010, 6:23 am
" Economics Nobelist Gary Becker thinks it would have been easy to draft a good health care bill, but what we got is bad. [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 8:00 pm
Becker, Uncommon Sense Charles R. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 6:56 am
Gary Becker thinks it's an overall plus for the U.S. economy: I am dubious about the wisdom of both America's complaints about China's currency policy and of China's responses. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 10:40 am
3-8-2010 Wisconsin:The judge who sent Gary Becker to prison hopes the Department of Corrections will place the former mayor in sex offender treatment programs.If the DOC does, he will spend between four months and three years in therapy sessions, counseling and doing homework designed to help him recognize and address unhealthy sexual behavior.Becker was sent to prison Thursday evening, to start [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 5:12 pm
The argument has been made by Gary Becker (The Economics of Discrimination), Richard Epstein (Forbidden Grounds), and others. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 12:04 am
There’s Gary (Becker) of course. [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 1:22 pm
In this post, I explained why the failure of socialism in the kibbutzim is important to broader debates about markets and property rights: As [Gary] Becker puts it, "nowhere is the failure of socialism clearer than in the radical transformation of the Israeli kibbutz. [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 8:01 am
Gary Becker, who won the Nobel in 1992, says that Posner and others raised fair critiques of Chicago economics. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 4:00 am
Tough Times in Chicago, The Economist, Jan 5, 2010 (hat tip to Brad DeLong who listed this in his ten posts not to miss)--this post covers the John Cassidy piece in the latest New Yorker on the impact of the economic crisis on freshwater economics (and economists), in which Cassidy pulls some amazing and "not very pretty" statements from current Chicago School adherents and then goes on to look at the Wall STreet Journal op-ed by Gary Becker et al, which is… [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 9:39 am
All of a sudden in "law and economics" he had found a theory that claimed to explain everything based on what was asserted as intuitively appropriate self-interest rationales--not just why markets are important, but also how tort law should work, and contracts--efficient breaches are fine, even if you do break your solemn word--, and even constitutional law (Gary Becker's unconvincing work suggesting that discrimination will disappear… [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 6:02 am
Becker, Steven J. [read post]
2 Jan 2010, 11:56 am
List here: Gary Becker (Chicago) Martin Feldstein (Harvard) Greg Mankiw (Harvard) Jeff Miron (Harvard) Ed Prescott (Arizona State) [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 8:15 pm
Original Article 12/22/2009 RACINE - Former Racine Mayor Gary Becker has pleaded guilty to two charges stemming from an Internet sex sting. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 8:53 am
The next year, Nobel Prize economist Gary Becker developed a theory supporting the deterrent value of the death penalty, and eight years later one of his students published a study based on national statistics purporting to show that each execution saved eight lives. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 2:39 am
(Particularly after reading some of Gary Becker's popular work.) [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 4:53 am
No one, including others who have considered polygamy from a bargaining perspective such as Gary Becker and Richard Posner, has confronted polygamy as a regulatory matter, instead assuming it is merely dyadic marriage multiplied. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 1:03 pm
They include: 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]
3 Aug 2009, 5:13 am
Judge Richard Posner and Professor Gary Becker address health reform and obesity in this week's blog posts. - SBS [read post]
1 Jul 2009, 7:38 am
Gary Hobson: That's not what I meant. [read post]
