In this clip Gary Becker speaks in an informed, thoughtful way about political systems and criminal justice vis-a-vis interest groups. The economic approach clearly has applicability across sectors and types of society, but this sort of systematic, analytic approach isn't just the purview of economics. It's an approach many other fields adopt, from social or behavioral science, to physics and technology. At the end of day, therefore, I as a clinical psychologist can tap my training in research and statistics, for example, and take that economic approach that Becker speaks to and undertake fully, without ever calling myself an economist.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Gary Becker - An Intellectual Portrait (6)
In this clip Gary Becker speaks in an informed, thoughtful way about political systems and criminal justice vis-a-vis interest groups. The economic approach clearly has applicability across sectors and types of society, but this sort of systematic, analytic approach isn't just the purview of economics. It's an approach many other fields adopt, from social or behavioral science, to physics and technology. At the end of day, therefore, I as a clinical psychologist can tap my training in research and statistics, for example, and take that economic approach that Becker speaks to and undertake fully, without ever calling myself an economist.
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