"When you were a young man, you were often criticized for doing research that was in some sense immoral: immoral to the extent that economists shouldn't be thinking about these kinds of questions. You often put them in so much stark and dramatic terms; thinking of a child as a consumer durable, for example, didn't necessarily hit everybody well. How important is morality in terms of determining economic analysis? I mean, do you find that when you're doing economic analysis, the morality creeps in?"
~Interviewer Edward Lazear, asking Gary Becker
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