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CHAPTER 5. ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION
1.
Gary Becker, The Economics of Discrimination (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1971).
2.
Harry Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael Stoll, “Perceived
Criminality, Criminal Background Checks, and the Racial Hiring
Practices of Employers,” Journal of Law and Economics, vol. XLIX
(October 2006).
3.
David Leonhardt, “In Health Reform, a Cancer Offers an Acid
Test,” New York Times, July 8, 2009.
4.
“Testing Times,” The Economist, October 19, 2000.
5.
“Outsourcing: Separate and Lift,” The Economist, September 20,
1997.
6.
Geoffrey A. Fowler, “Kind of Blue: In Asia, Elite Offices Show Off
with Icy Temperatures,” Wall Street Journal, August 24, 2005.
7.
Alan B. Krueger, “Children Smart Enough to Get into Elite Schools
May Not Need to Bother,” New York Times, April 27, 2000, p. C2.
8.
All of the racial profiling examples come from a provocative article
on the subject: Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Color of Suspicion,” New York
Times Magazine, June 20, 1999.
CHAPTER 6. PRODUCTIVITY AND HUMAN CAPITAL
1.
Brier Dudley, “Gates Wants to Expand Mega-House,” Seattle
Times, February 28, 2001.
2.
“The Rich Get Richer: A Survey of India’s Economy,” The
Economist, June 2, 2001.
3.
Evelyn Nieves, “Homeless Defy Cities’ Drives to Move Them,”
New York Times, December 7, 1999.
4.
“From Boots to Electronics: Shutting Military Bases,” The
Economist, June 21, 1997.
5.
T. Paul Schultz, “Health and Schooling Investments in Africa,”
Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 13, no. 3 (Summer 1999), pp.
67–88.
6.
Gary Becker, “Economic Evidence on the Value of Education,”
Remarks to executives of the Lotus Development Corporation, January

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1999.
7.
Gary S. Becker, Ryerson Lecture at the University of Chicago, as
reprinted in Becker, Human Capital (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1993), p. 21.
8.
Ibid., p. 23.
9.
Roger Lowenstein, “The Inequality Conundrum,” New York Times
Sunday Magazine, June 10, 2007.
10.
Dora Costa, “The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From
the 1890s to 1991,” Journal of Labor Economics, January 2000.
11.
All of the income inequality information, including the H. L.
Mencken quotations, comes from Robert H. Frank, “Why Living in a
Rich Society Makes Us Feel Poor,” New York Times Magazine,
October 15, 2000.
12.
Philippe Aghion, Eve Caroli, and Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa,
“Inequality and Economic Growth: The Perspective of the New
Growth Theories,” Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 37 (December
1999), pp. 1615–60.
13.
Marvin Zonis, Remarks Presented at the University of Chicago
Business Forecast Luncheon, December 6, 2000.