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Gary Becker

Type: Person

Name: Gary Becker

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Republican Party (US)

Mark 400, mark 3000: What’s the difference?

For all the talk about scandals in Washington, the news that caught my eye was the differing treatment accorded the latest benchmark in the global warming debate. Atmospheric carbon dioxide reached 400 parts per million earlier this month, as measured ... [Published EconomicPrincipals.com - May 20 2013]

Entities: Carbon Dioxide, Republican Party (US), Harrison Schmitt, Global Warming/Climate Change, Elections

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Pope John Paul II

Community of life and love: The holistic vision of the family

In our distracted world, the family is often taken for granted. G.K. Chesterton told a story about a man who left home and travelled the world seeking "something," a paradise where he could be fulfilled. After many long journeys, he finally came over ... [Published ABC Online - May 16 2013]

Entities: Gary Becker, Pope John Paul II, Melbourne

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 2 reports

Federal Reserve System

Noted for May 13, 2013

Kieran Healy: You Had Me at “Swedish-American Economist Ronald Coase” : "As best I can tell from the article , I think Jim Buchanan and Ronald Coase starred in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which was financed from the profits made by The Communist ... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 13 2013]

Entities: Federal Reserve System, Unemployment, Anna Schwartz, Ronald Coase, Hedge Fund

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

You Had Me at “Swedish-American Economist Ronald Coase”

I like the Los Angeles Review of Books quite a lot. I’ve given them real, actual money. But this article on Marx and public choice theory is, to put it plainly, shit. Below the fold, a lengthy and repetitive diatribe, which I’m posting less because ... [Published Crooked Timber - May 11 2013]

Entities: Ronald Coase, James Buchanan, Gary Becker, Mancur Olson, Game Theory

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Academic Cesspools and Cultural Marxists (Or Do I Repeat Myself?)

The insightful article by Walter Williams today pinpoints how cultural Marxists have essentially destroyed academic freedom at most American universities while pursuing an agenda of the infantilization of college students. In the old days the Marxists ... [Published PrisonPlanet - May 10 2013]

Entities: Walter Williams, Walter Block, Heterosexuality, Loyola University Maryland, Gary Becker

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Moravian College

StarWatch: See Moon's Rendezvous With Venus

By Gary BeckerStarWatch 871 for the week of May 5, 2013“It's May! It’s May, the lusty month of May! That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray…” That’s Guinevere singing about one of the joyful perks regarding life at Camelot, in mythical ... [Published Upper Macungie Patch - May 06 2013]

Entities: Gary Becker, Binoculars, Moravian College, Star Cluster, Pleiades

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

How to stop the boats

Most of the people arriving in Australia in leaky fishing boats are economic refugees seeking a better life. Moreover, they are from families with the means to pay for passage on a boat. They are neither the poorest nor the most vulnerable from the societies ... [Published On Line Opinion - May 06 2013]

Entities: Immigration, Gary Becker, Refugees

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Nouriel Roubini, Gary Becker present contrasting views on S. Korean BOK$$s policy on ke..

Nouriel Roubini, Gary Becker present contrasting views on S. Korean BOK’s policy on key rateNouriel Roubini (left), Gary Becker (right)US economist Nouriel Roubini, also called as “Dr. Doom,” who teaches at New York University`s Stern School of Business ... [Published Maekyung - May 02 2013]

Entities: Gary Becker, Nouriel Roubini, Rate Cut, Japan, Eurozone

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Oregon Health Experiment Shows That Having Health Insurance Is Different Than Being Healthy

MIT's Amy Finkelstein leads the Oregon Health Experiment, whose results today reiterate an old truth about health insurance. It's not the same as health. A new study out of Oregon tries to answer an old question, and comes up with the same answer. Is ... [Published Forbes.com - May 02 2013]

Entities: Health Insurance, Oregon, Gary Becker, Medicaid, Kenneth Arrow

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Immigration: Don't Be Stingy

Weighing in at 844 pages, the immigration bill that the bipartisan Gang of Eight delivered to the Senate on April 17 has something for everyone: border security, a path to legalization for millions of the undocumented, an extension of the DREAM Act to ... [Published Forbes.com - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Immigration, United States, Gary Becker, Workers, Bill Gates

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

For white-collar criminals in SA the choice is logical: commit the crime

IN THE 1960s, University of Chicago economist Gary Becker argued we should use the logic of rational choice to guide policies on punishment and law enforcement. Criminals should be able to weigh the chances and cost of getting caught against the benefits ... [Published BDlive - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Gary Becker, Crime, Graham Maddock, Tigon

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

Should We Sell Citizenship?

Gary Becker thinks so : Elsewhere (see my monograph, “ The Challenge of Immigration: A Radical Solution ”, 2011) I use as an illustration a price of $50,000. I show that such a price would attract young, skilled, and ambitious men and women since they ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Gary Becker, Richard Posner, Immigration

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Michael Sandel interview: the marketization of ... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - 11 hours ago]
Mark 400, mark 3000: What’s the difference? [Published EconomicPrincipals.com - May 20 2013]
The De-Gendering of Divorce: Wives Pay Ex-Husba... [Published Time - May 16 2013]
Community of life and love: The holistic vision... [Published ABC Online - May 16 2013]
Noted for May 13, 2013 [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 13 2013]
Noted for May 13, 2013 [Published Brad DeLong - May 13 2013]
You Had Me at “Swedish-American Economist Ronal... [Published Crooked Timber - May 11 2013]
Workers of the world: You're screwed [Published Haaretz - May 10 2013]
Norway, Canada, the United States and the Tar S... [Published Common Dreams - May 10 2013]
Dr. James Hansen: Norway, Canada, the United St... [Published Huffington Post - May 10 2013]
Academic Cesspools and Cultural Marxists (Or Do... [Published PrisonPlanet - May 10 2013]
Do women and minorities in Sri Lanka face glass... [Published Sri Lanka Island - May 08 2013]
I Confess Clive Crook Is Getting to Me: Bloombe... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 06 2013]
I Confess Clive Crook Is Getting to Me: Bloombe... [Published Brad DeLong - May 06 2013]
StarWatch: See Moon's Rendezvous With Venus [Published Upper Macungie Patch - May 06 2013]
How to stop the boats [Published On Line Opinion - May 06 2013]
Some simple investor advice: Don’t follow your gut [Published Globe and Mail - May 05 2013]
Are Any Jobs Safe from Innovation? [Published Spiegel Online - May 03 2013]
Conversations with History: Gary Becker [Published UC Television - YouTube - May 02 2013]
Nouriel Roubini, Gary Becker present contrastin... [Published Maekyung - May 02 2013]
Oregon Health Experiment Shows That Having Heal... [Published Forbes.com - May 02 2013]
[UPDATE] Victims in fatal East Helena crash ide... [Published Helena Independent - May 01 2013]
Immigration: Don't Be Stingy [Published Forbes.com - Apr 30 2013]
Freakonomic's Steve Levitt and the Greatest Goo... [Published Forbes.com - Apr 30 2013]
How to put America back together [Published Las Vegas Sun - Apr 29 2013]
For white-collar criminals in SA the choice is ... [Published BDlive - Apr 29 2013]
Should We Sell Citizenship? [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 24 2013]
Obama's big ideas for new America [Published New Straits Times - Apr 22 2013]
What if demand for graduates falls? [Published Stumbling and Mumbling - Apr 21 2013]
A carbon tax would go a long way [Published Times Union - Apr 21 2013]

Blogs

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Michael Sandel interview: the marketization of ... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - 11 hours ago] Michael Sandel is a political philosopher and a professor at Harvard University. He is best known for his ‘Justice’ course , which he has taught for over two decades. Sandel first came to prominence in 1982 with his book Liberalism and the Limits ...
Noted for May 13, 2013 [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 13 2013] Kieran Healy: You Had Me at “Swedish-American Economist Ronald Coase” : "As best I can tell from the article , I think Jim Buchanan and Ronald Coase starred in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which was financed from the profits made by The Communist ...
Noted for May 13, 2013 [Published Brad DeLong - May 13 2013] Kieran Healy:You Had Me at “Swedish-American Economist Ronald Coase”: "As best I can tell from the article, I think Jim Buchanan and Ronald Coase starred in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which was financed from the profits made by The Communist Manifesto, ...
You Had Me at “Swedish-American Economist Ronal... [Published Crooked Timber - May 11 2013] I like the Los Angeles Review of Books quite a lot. I’ve given them real, actual money. But this article on Marx and public choice theory is, to put it plainly, shit. Below the fold, a lengthy and repetitive diatribe, which I’m posting less because ...
I Confess Clive Crook Is Getting to Me: Bloombe... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 06 2013] Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? Clive Crook is back again, writing: Krugman… concede[s] (somewhat to my surprise)… stunningly disingenuous of Krugman…. Krugman… at the forefront in casting discussion of the stimulus in left vs. ...

Audio/Video

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Conversations with History: Gary Becker [Published UC Television - YouTube - May 02 2013]