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This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential scholar.
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China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...
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The theory of insurance is considered here when an insured individual may be able to sue another party for the losses … that the insured suffered — and thus when an insured has a potential source of compensation in addition to insurance … coverage. Insurance policies reflect this possibility through so-called subrogation provisions that give insurers the right to …
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-bearing and insurance, for the liability system acts as an implicit insurer for accident victims and it imposes risk on potential … much care to exercise (at what speed to travel) to reduce risk when so doing. The second general aspect concerns risk … injurers (because they may have to pay judgments to victims). In this regard, victims' accident insurance and injurers …
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covered. The first is legal liability for harm. Here we discuss liability rules as incentives to reduce risk, issues of risk …-bearing and insurance, and the costs of the liability system. Second, we consider property law, where we address the nature and …
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