Gagne was one of baseball’s top closers from 2002-04 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. During that stretch he saved 152 games, made three All-Star Game appearances, won the 2003 National League Cy Young ...

But Robert Gagné, an economist at HEC Montréal, a business school, recently co-wrote a study that found that eliminating those barriers would not lead to significant economic growth. “Remove all the ...