[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athlet…

- Barbara Bergmann

The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to it…

- Barbara Bergmann

[Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it w…

- Barbara Bergmann

To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, …

- Barbara Bergmann

Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some 'reputable' economist, sin…

- Barbara Bergmann