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Learn about the life and work of Gary Becker, a leader of the Chicago school of economics who analyzed topics such as discrimination, crime, family, and addiction. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.
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.
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 Becker was a US economist who extended microeconomic analysis to human behaviour and interaction. He applied his models to topics such as human capital, family, crime, and discrimination.
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 4, 2014 · Learn about the life and achievements of Gary Becker, a pioneer of microeconomic analysis and a University of Chicago professor for more than 30 years. He won the Nobel Prize in 1992 for his contributions to the study of human behavior and interaction in various fields.
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May 7, 2014 · Gary Becker was a Nobel laureate and a Hoover Senior Fellow who applied economic analysis to human behavior in various fields. He challenged the Marxist view of discrimination, explained education as an investment, and studied crime as a rational choice.
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