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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 .
Gary S. Becker (born December 2, 1930, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died May 3, 2014, Chicago, Illinois) 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 ...
Gary Becker Biographical . I was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, a little coal mining town in Eastern Pennsylvania, where my father owned a small business. He had first gone into business for himself after leaving Montreal and his family for the United States when he was only sixteen-years old.
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May 3, 2014 · Gary Becker was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, USA. He was educated at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1955. In 1957-70 he taught at Columbia UnIversity, before returning to the University of Chicago as a professor of economics.
May 5, 2014 · Gary Stanley Becker was born on Dec. 2, 1930, in the coal-mining city of Pottsville, Pa., where his father owned a small business, and moved with his parents, his brother and two sisters, to ...
Gary Becker was a pioneer of the economics of human behavior, applying economic frameworks to real-world issues such as crime, discrimination, and the family. He taught at the University of Chicago for most of his career and won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
May 5, 2014 · University of Chicago economist Gary Becker died Saturday at the age of 83. He won the Nobel Prize in 1992 for broadening the horizons of economics, using economic analysis to explore social ...
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