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- Gary Becker on Whether Our Goose Is Cooked
- Gary Becker on Whether Our Goose Is CookedRE: Gary Becker on Whether Our Goose Is CookedBeing in the Mortgage business allows me to see first hand what has happened, what is happening...just wish it allowed me the future. It wouldn't surprise me to see families living together after foreclosure...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
- Gary Becker: How to Survive in an Uncertain Economy
- Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker discusses what makes an employee valuable in today's workplace — and explains why a liberal arts education is the best asset in a volatile economy. Becker’s initial ideas about human capital were controversial at the time...
- Articles 2009-08-14
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- Gary Becker on Whether Our Goose Is Cooked
- Gary Becker, a Nobel Prize-winning economist with creative views on economics and a wealth of experience in international economies, thinks we'll come through this crisis in reasonable shape. He says global capitalism will more or less continue on its course, rebounding from recession in a reasonably short time. He does...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- ADVISORY/Nobel Laureate Gary Becker to speak on globalization
- Assignment Desks/Education Writers ADVISORY...for Tues. (March 11, 2003) CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--March 10, 2003 Gary Becker, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in economics, will discuss whether globalization has gone too far at a forum sponsored by the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Chicago Council...
- Research articles 2003-03-10
- Becker Elected.(Vierbicher Associates)(Brief Article)
- Staff Gary Becker, CEcD, has been elected to the Vierbicher Associates' Board of Directors. The Vierbicher board is made up of seven members who lead, support and guide the company's strategic plan. ...
- Research articles 2004-08-19
- The Costs and Benefits of Going to College - Is It Worth It?
- Bryan Caplan, Arnold Kling, and Will Wilkinson have been discussing why people go to college, and whether it's actually worth the exorbitant cost for private colleges at least.The conversation started with Gary Becker's and Kevin Murphy's article in The American which argues that we shouldn't be too concerned with rising...
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- The Stunning Subprime Mess
- How bad is the subprime crisis? This from the New York Times, in the wake of the Swiss bank UBS announcing huge write-downs related to subprime mortgages: Banks worldwide have announced more than $135 billion in credit losses and write-downs since the...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Women Make Better Managers than Men
- The new gender gap puts women in front of men, at least in school. So says Gary Becker, the Nobel Prize Winning economist, in a post on the blog he shares with Richard Posner. Ultimately, says Becker: Whatever the explanation for the remarkable shift in college attendance rates of...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Brain Steroids: Ban Or Boost?
- Drugs are bad for productivity, right? Well, maybe not. While you can probably correlate productivity increases with declines in per capita drinking, what about coffee or Diet Coke? These can act as mild stimulants. Then there's full-fledged brain steroids, say, a drug like Provigil, which...
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Becker & Poliakoff Founding Partner Requests Federal Solution to Foreclosure Crisis in Common Interest Ownership Communities
- Becker & Poliakoff, P.A., a diversified commercial law firm with more than 120 attorneys in 13 Florida offices, New York City and affiliated international offices, today made public a letter to President Obama from Gary A. Poliakoff, J.D., a founding shareholder of the firm, calling attention to the impact of...
- Research articles 2009-03-10
- HARD WORK HAS ITS REWARDS.
- Gary Becker & Bonnie Morgan Advantage, Grand Rapids, Mich. Gary has done a tremendous job in managing the Rhodes line. His attention to details and constant pursuit for ways to build Rhodes' business has resulted in an 18% increase over the previous...
- Research articles 2000-11-01
- How To Think Like Warren Buffett
- Wouldn't we all like to make business decisions that work as well as the world's richest man's? A friendly reader noted my recent post on Irrational Economics and flagged a Marc Andreessen's discussion of a speech by Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's right-hand man. The speech is The...
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- ADVISORY/University of Chicago M.B.A. Graduation Ceremony
- Business Editors ADVISORY...for Sunday (June 13) --BUSINESS WIRE University of Chicago. WHAT: Graduation ceremony for the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. WHEN: Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:00 p.m. SPEAKERS: Christopher McGurk, vice chairman and chief operating officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ...
- Research articles 2004-06-10
- REMINDER/University of Chicago M.B.A. Graduation Ceremony
- Business Editors REMINDER... --BUSINESS WIRE University of Chicago. WHAT: Graduation ceremony for the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. WHEN: Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:00 p.m. SPEAKERS: Christopher McGurk, vice chairman and chief operating officer of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. Gary Becker,...
- Research articles 2004-06-11
- Jury verdicts in drunken driving cases.
- This dissertation examines damages awarded by juries to victims plaintiffs of drunken driving automobile accidents. It was supervised by a committee consisting of Professors Gary Becker, Sam Peltzman, Sherwin Rosen, and Mark Zmijewski at the University of Chicago. Data are supplied by Jury Verdict Research, Inc....
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- Recession-beating Ideas
- BNET has put together a Smart Business for Tough Times guide, with 12 tactics that might help your business ride things out. Most of them are geared for large businesses with at least some access to capital markets and custom research, but they may jog some good ideas for businesses...
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Your Real Net Worth
- Moshe Milevsky, a finance professor at York University, talks about how to take care of your most valuable asset — your human capital. According to Milevsky, this involves evaluating your lifetime earning potential and figuring out whether you're more like a stock or a bond…There may be no arithmetic exercise...
- Articles 2009-03-05
- Elected Officials, Conservationists Hail New Great Lakes Restoration Bill
- To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Event Precedes 2 PM Hearing on Invasive SpeciesWHO: Rep. Vern Ehlers, R-Grand Rapids, Mich.Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-ChicagoRep. Mark Kirk, R-ChicagoRep. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, Mich.Mayor Gary Becker, Racine, Wisc., and vice-chair, Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Cities InitiativeTodd Ambs, division administrator, water, Wisconsin DNRFrank Ettawageshik, Tribal Chairman, Little Traverse...
- Research articles 2007-03-07
- "When I was . . ."; Wisdom, career advice from an old hand at the game of banking.(Focus: Finance)
- Byline: KATE RYAN These days, investment bankers can plug a few numbers into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and put a price on a company within seconds. When Gary Walther started his career in 1968, that would have taken weeks. "There weren't...
- Research articles 2007-02-05
- DuPage collegians.(Neighbor)
- Haley Baltes of Aurora was named to the dean's list for the spring semester 2002 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. Patty Fischer of Naperville was named to the president's list for the spring semester 2002 while studying in the college of...
- Research articles 2002-07-14
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