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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"
May 3, 2014 · 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.
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.
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.
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 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...
May 5, 2014 · Gary Becker was the most important social scientist in the past 50 years and possibly longer, in my view. He was my intellectual hero, and I want to explain why.
Nobel lecture: The economic way of looking at behavior. GS Becker. Journal of political economy 101 (3), 385-409. , 1993. 3316. 1993. Articles 1–20. University of Chicago - Cited by 328,392...
May 15, 2014 · Described by Milton Friedman as "the greatest social scientist who has lived and worked in the last half-century", Gary Becker, who has died aged 83, carried out research that traversed at least...
