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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER BECKER: CHARGE $50K FOR IMMIGRATING

By Greg Siskind

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Gary Becker, the Nobel Prize winning economist from the University of Chicago (go Maroons!) came out of left field and proposed charging a $50,000 fee to immigrate, an amount he believes would generate $50 billion per year. Professor Becker made the remarks in a lecture he was delivering in the UK. According to the Daily Telegraph: Having inspired a generation of economists with a new approach to the discipline, he is seen as the forefather of the "Freakonomics" movement and was in London last week to deliver a controversial lecture on immigration. Becker himself is the son of an immigrant...

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on June 23, 2010 (boomark / email).

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