"A key tenet of the Chicago school is that free markets function well in most circumstances, so government intervention into the economy ought to be limited. A second theme is that economic analysis has substantial explanatory power for empirical phenomena, not only in the narrow economic realm but also—as Gary Becker (whom I discuss next) has particularly demonstrated—in a wide variety of social interactions."
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Robert Barro, Nothing Is Sacred (2002), Ch. 1 : Thoughts on Friends and Other Noteworthy Persons.
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