$5000 is cheap. Lunch with Warren Buffett is $2.6 million. Is that too much support?
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:29 PM, MICHAEL YATES <[email protected]> wrote: > So, Gary Becker charges $5,000 an hour to dispense his wisdom via Skype. > Why would anyone igh his or her right mind pay an 81 year old dickhead like > Becker this kind of money? To tell them what? Don't worry about your > "tastes for discrimination," competitive markets will make them ineffective > anyway. Or don't fret over the gap between black and white wages, incomes, > wealth, unemployment rates, etc. Whatever part the markets can't eliminate > is due to genetics. I read Becker's first book, teh one on discrimination in > 1967 or 68. > God, the time I had to waste on it. Pretty thin gruel really. The > capitalists were the losers when they discriminate. Unions are villains. > Then he turned to crime, marriage, you name it. Shined that neoclassical > laser beam on everthing humans do. It explains everything. And he is > considered a great mind in the "science" of economics. Stop me before I > throw up. > > And Michael, it is bad enough you defend Brad DeLong!! Don't say anything > nice about Becker!!![image: Smile] > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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