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Jennifer Roback Morse: The curious case of same-sex ?marriage? and the incurious economists

By Alliance Alert

Jennifer Roback Morse writing at American Thinker: "Normally, economists and libertarians take pride in tracking the changes in incentives as far through society as possible. Yet on the subject of same-sex marriage, these economists seemed uncharacteristically incurious. They seem to think same sex-marriage will affect only the handful of people who 1) currently identify themselves as gay or lesbian, 2) are partnered, and 3) want to get married. My economist friends do not seem to see that redefining marriage will create changes in the social incentive structure for everyone. If I'm right, the behavior of many millions of people could be in play."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).