…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….

…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?…

…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…

…Gary Becker – that rational individuals who have private retirement savings already select an optimal mix of expected return and portfolio risk. On the other extreme, the Cato free lunch…

…reformed by giving workers the option of shifting all or part of their payroll taxes into privately invested accounts. I don’t see Gary Becker or Robert Barro on this list,…

…criticized. We have noted that conservative economist Robert Barro rejected this free lunch claim in July 2000, and that Gary Becker rejected it in February 2005. It was the Cato…

…Barro’s 7/3/2000 Business Week op-ed as well as Gary Becker’s 2/22/2005 Wall Street Journal op-ed. Yet, the Cato-Club for Growth crowd continues to argue for a free lunch without ever…