Mises Daily
Author:
Gene Callahan
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Much effort is put into making economics “tractable,” as the mathematical economists like to put it. In 1977, two neoclassical economists, Gary Becker and George Stigler, wrote a famous paper entitled “De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum.” In this paper, the authors contend: “Tastes neither change capriciously nor differ importantly between people.