Gary Becker, R.I.P.

Writing in National Review, Thomas Sowell remembers the noted economist:

On a personal note, my path and his crossed a few times at different places. The first time was inauspicious. I was a first-year graduate student at Columbia University and took his year-long course in labor economics.

It was like no other labor-economics course I knew about or had heard about — and there was a reason. He was introducing his own analytical framework, which was destined to change the way many issues would be seen by the economics profession in the years ahead.