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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
— Gary Becker
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
— Gary Becker
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
— Gary Becker
Tags: men, children, work, women
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
— Gary Becker
Tags: because, fine, punishment, more
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
— Gary Becker
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
— Gary Becker
Tags: men, work, women, education
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