Another Student Remembers Gary Becker
Dr. Tracy Miller, an economist at Grove City College was a graduate student of Gary Becker at the University of Chicago. Dr.
Dr. Tracy Miller, an economist at Grove City College was a graduate student of Gary Becker at the University of Chicago. Dr.
Spencer asked: “How could the pursuit of trade, which is voluntary, sit well with the practice of militarism?”
"It turns out that Taft was right on every question all the way from inflation to the terrible demoralization of the troops.”
Once I understood the fundamental choice was between laissez-faire and statism, it was clear: there was no “third way.”
Mises and Schumpeter are the most famous economists trained by the older Austrian School.
The James E. Kluttz Lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit.
Mary Sennholz, wife of Austrian economist Hans Sennholz and friend of Margit and Ludwig von Mises, recently spoke about her long career as a writer and editor, and as a friend and colleague of many other giants of the Austrian School. We hope her next project is a biography of her husband, Hans.
Chadwick believed in incentive-based social reform. He also wrote about moral hazard problems, anticipating many insights of contemporary economics.