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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 .
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"
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.
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.
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...
Investment in human capital: A theoretical analysis. GS Becker. Journal of political economy 70 (5, Part 2), 9-49. , 1962. 15802. 1962. Creating capabilities: The human development approach. MC...
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.
