Ok, this probably marks me as a major league nerd, but I am totally impressed that Gary Becker received the Medal of Freedom. Becker and his work in Economic Sociology changed my intellectual life and views on economics. He took economics (for me, at least) away from 'economic man' and the mathematics of an impossibly perfect world, back into real life, where people have limited information, prejudices, and assumptions and have to make real, messy, choices. He strongly influenced my doctoral studies and dissertation work. Good on ya, Gary! Whoo Hoo!