Talk:Gary Becker

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[edit] Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics

There is no such thing as a Nobel Prize in Economics. Nobel never instituted a prize for economics, nor would he. Economists have free-rided the event to enhance their profession. The Bank of Sweden Prize for Economics was instituted with public money, tipical, and they forced their hand to be given at the same date. The marketing ploy is in the "In Memory of Alfred Nobel", which belies a laugh. Not even the most liberal economist would honor a monopolist business man, warmonger, inventor of Dynamite, suplier of the military. Only wikipedia can tell the truth. Britanica hires economists to write about the Nobel Prize in Economics and spread the small lie around.

== There most certainly is a Nobel Prize in Economics. OK, it's called "Economic Sciences". -- Zoe

The question is whether it's really a Nobel prize. It wasn't established by Nobel's will, but by the Bank of Sweden many years later. Vicki Rosenzweig

I removed some false information that claimed he has retired. He is in fact still teaching as of 2003. See http://www.src.uchicago.edu/users/gsb1/ MB 17:31 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)