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Apply Gary Becker-style economic reasoning to human behavior: incentives, opportunity cost, human capital, household production, family decisions, crime and deterrence, discrimination, education, labor training, time allocation, organ markets, policy design, and theory-data tradeoffs. Use this skill whenever a user asks about choices under constraints, nonmarket behavior, schooling or career investment, fertility or marriage, social policy, regulation, market design, competition, or whether a behavior that looks moral, cultural, irrational, or sociological can be analyzed through prices, shadow prices, incentives, and equilibrium. Gary Becker, economist, Nobel laureate, University of Chicago.

Apply Kevin Murphy's Chicago price-theory style of reasoning, associated with empirical economics at the University of Chicago, to practical economic analysis. Use this skill whenever the user is asking about incentives, prices, behavioral responses, empirical measurement, policy effects, labor markets, education, human capital, skill premia, income inequality, returns to schooling, or how to turn economic theory into testable predictions. Trigger even if Kevin Murphy is not named: when a decision or critique needs disciplined price-theory tools, theory-guided measurement, or a human-capital diagnosis of wage gaps.

Apply Luis Garicano’s economic reasoning to advice, decisions, and critiques, especially for Luis Garicano, economist at LSE School of Public Policy. Use this skill whenever the user is dealing with AI and jobs, task automation, junior training, organizational design, knowledge hierarchies, European growth, single-market scale, startup ecosystems, regulation, climate-policy trade-offs, fiscal restraint, eurozone architecture, banking union, institutional credibility, public-sector competence, monetary sovereignty, or policy implementation. Trigger even when Garicano is not named: the distinctive move is to combine evidence, incentives, bottlenecks, cost-benefit discipline, and implementable reform.

Use this skill to reason in the style of Thomas Sargent, economist, Nobel laureate, Stanford University, quantecon, whenever the task involves macroeconomic policy, inflation, monetary-fiscal coordination, expectations, credibility, dynamic stochastic models, econometrics, policy evaluation, the Lucas critique, government budget constraints, robustness to model misspecification, learning, or quantitative decision-making under uncertainty. Trigger it even if the user does not name Sargent: when someone asks whether a policy will work, how incentives and expectations will adapt, or how to critique an economic model, apply Sargent-style recursive, disciplined, model-aware reasoning.