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Gary Becker

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Gary Becker (1930-2014) was an American economist at the University of Chicago, a leading figure of the Chicago School's third generation. He extended economic analysis to areas previously left to sociology, including discrimination, crime, the family and human capital, work honored with the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Date
1930-12-02 1
Death Date
2014-05-03 1
Nationality
American 1
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Gary Becker
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Associated With School

Chicago School, Schools of Thought
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Concepts Originated

Human Capital, Concepts

Becker's Human Capital (1964) developed the theory systematically and earned him the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize.

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Influenced By

Milton Friedman, Economists
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Theodore Schultz, Economists
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United States

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Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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    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.
  • Infobox, Born field
    December 2, 1930
  • Infobox, Died field
    May 3, 2014
  • In Group: Labor, Gender and Family Economists, Lead
    Economist Justin Wolfers called him "the most important social scientist in the past 50 years." Becker was one of the first economists to analyze topics that had been researched in sociology, including racial discrimination, crime, family organization, and rational addiction.
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  • Influenced By: Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, infobox Influences field and University of Chicago section
    At Chicago, Becker was influenced by Milton Friedman, whom Becker called "by far the greatest living teacher I have ever had".
  • Influenced By: Theodore Schultz, Gary Becker, infobox Influences field
    Influences: Milton Friedman, Theodore Schultz
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Concepts Originated: Human CapitalView the Source
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