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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 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.
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. He moved many times in the eastern United States before ...
May 5, 2014 · May 4, 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...
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.
Gary Stanley Becker. 1930-2014. 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.”
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. To Gary, who died on Saturday,...
