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Gary Stanley Becker (/ ˈ b ɛ k ər /; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago , and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics .
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1992 was awarded to Gary S. Becker "for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour"
Gary Becker’s Nobel Prize–winning work broke new ground by crossing disciplinary boundaries and applying economic principles to answer pressing questions about human behavior. Published in 1957, The Economics of Discrimination examined racial discrimination from the perspective of markets.
G ary S. Becker received the 1992 Nobel Prize in economics for “having extended the domain of economic theory to aspects of human behavior which had previously been dealt with—if at all—by other social science disciplines such as sociology, demography and criminology.”
Gary S. Becker The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1992. Born: 2 December 1930, Pottsville, PA, USA. Died: 3 May 2014, Chicago, IL, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Apr 29, 2024 · Gary S. Becker was an American economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1992. He applied the methods of economics to aspects of human behaviour previously considered more or less the exclusive domain of sociology, criminology, anthropology, and demography.
May 7, 2014 · On Saturday May 3, Gary S. Becker, a University of Chicago economics professor and a Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, died. He was 83. Becker was one of a kind.
Aug 4, 2017 · For Gary Becker, an American economist who died in 2014, a common thread ran through them all: human capital. Simply put, human capital refers to the abilities and qualities of people that make...
May 5, 2014 · Gary S. Becker, a Nobel prize-winning economics professor and longtime columnist for Business Week whose research illuminated motivations about such aspects of everyday life as...
University Professor in Economics, Sociology, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Gary Becker, who received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992, is best known for research that illuminates how economic decisions influence people’s lives.
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