Gary Becker
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Gary Becker was an American economist who lived from 1930 to 2014 and fundamentally changed how economics is applied to everyday life by studying topics like education, crime, and family decisions using economic tools. His work matters because it expanded economics beyond business and markets to show how economic thinking could explain human behavior in many different areas of society.
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- Born
- 1930-12-02
- Died
- 2014-05-03
- Works
- 7
Top works
- New Voice for Teachers
- Price Theory
- New Economics of Human Behaviour
- Economics and the Good Life
- Bribe third world parents to keep their kids in school
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Gary Stanley Becker (/ˈbɛkər/; 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.
Becker was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Becker their favorite living economist over the age of 60, followed by Kenneth Arrow and Robert Solow. Economist Justin Wolfers called him "the most important social scientist in the past 50 years."