De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum: George Stigler through Gary Becker’s Eyes

Craig Freedman
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Craig Freedman: University of New South Wales

A chapter in In Search of the Two-Handed Economist, 2016, pp 343-373 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract I waited in an anteroom on an unseasonably hot October morning while Gary Becker’s secretary typed away. Like all the offices housing the Chicago economics department, the room is shabbily comfortable. Professor Becker walks in and is reminded of a staff seminar later that day. As the secretary recites the title of the scheduled paper, Gary Becker’s eyes involuntarily roll. I can easily relate to that. It is the “Life’s too short to listen to a yet another incredibly narrow paper on arcane techniques without any clear economic applications.” Many of us reach that age, only the timing varies from one individual to the next.

Keywords: Political Economy; Industrial Organization; Nobel Prize; Price Theory; Moral Sentiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58974-3_6

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