by Daniel J Becker (DOLB for the rest of you) UPDATED BELOW. Well, I thought being tonight is the big night for the President I would give my version of…

by Divorced one like Bush For this post I will formally introduce myself. I am Daniel J. Becker. It is only proper and just to do so. I am using…

…and even constitutional law (Gary Becker’s unconvincing work suggesting that discrimination will disappear if one only trusts in markets). With that theory in hand, he had stopped asking questions and…

It has long been a standard claim of economics—iirc, Robert Lucas was the first to say it aloud, though it may have been Gary Becker*—that a man who marries his…

…at a Jimmy Carter Institute, but would the counterpart of a Gary Becker, much less the equivalent of Milton Friedman on the left let their name be associated with such…

Curv3ball at The Poor Man warms the cockles of this Northeast Philadelphia native’s heart. Go Read the Whole Thing. Gary Becker must be rolling over in his grave….

…does not imply that increased public spending has no effect on aggregate demand. Krugman presented a model with Ricardian equivalence which implies a public spending muliplier of 1. Becker and…

…designation of aaron-in-coventry to be intended or implied, sarcastic or otherwise. ***Lou Holtz reference explained here.*** ***If he isn’t suspended without pay, will Gary Becker give back his Nobel Prize?…

…Except for some partially subsidized oil supplied by Kuwait, all oil-producing U.S. allies in the region charge us the market rate for petroleum. Update: See Naked Capitalism on Wolf Becker…

…Week op-ed that said this free lunch proposition was bunk and more recently I linked to another conservative economist who agree with Barro – that being Gary Becker: It is…