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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.
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 applied economic theories and approaches to areas that had previously only been addressed in sociology, demography, and criminology. Becker's starting point was that actors act rationally to maximize specific goals, like advantage or wealth.
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...
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.
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.”
