The Curious Case of the Incurious Economists

Jennifer Roback Morse writes at the American Thinker: “State-sanctioned same-sex marriage restructures the incentives for child-rearing arrangements, and much e lse. Few are thinking through how people will react. I recently participated in a round-table discussion about marriage, freedom, and the state. Most of the participants were libertarians and economists. The default position of virtually everyone in the room was a presumption in favor of redefining marriage as the union of any two persons. 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 . . . “