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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 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.
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.
Aug 10, 2023 · Gary S. Becker was an economist who won the 1992 Nobel Prize for his microeconomic analysis of the impact of economic considerations on human behavior and interaction. Before Becker, human...
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 4, 2014 · Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker, AM'53, PhD'55, made historic changes to the study of economics and the social sciences, combining disciplines to understand decisions in everyday life, while spawning rich new questions for scholars in diverse fields to pursue.
