Gary Becker

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Gender	Male
Death	9 years ago
Date of birth	December 2,1930
Zodiac sign	Sagittarius
Born	Pottsville
	Pennsylvania
	United States
Date of died	May 3,2014
Died	Chicago
	Illinois
	United States
Contributions	human capital
	Rotten kid theorem
School or tradition	Chicago School of Economics
Spouse	Guity Nashat Becker
	Doria Slote
Job	Economist
	Professor
	Scientist
Education	The University of Chicago
	Princeton University
	James Madison High School
Movies/Shows	Abel's Island
	The Story of the Dancing Frog
	The Red Shoes
	Everybody's Pregnant
	Jazztime Tale (TV movie)
	The Hunting of the Snark
	Monty
	The Talking Eggs
	The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
	Doctor De Soto
Awards	Presidential Medal of Freedom
	National Medal of Science for Behavioral and Social Science
	John von Neumann Award
	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Children	Catherine Becker
	Judy Becker
Academic advisor	Milton Friedman
	H. Gregg Lewis
Influence	Milton Friedman
	Theodore Schultz
	Jacob Mincer
Date of Reg.	2019-02-21 19:12:47
Date of Upd.	2023-11-10 10:42:23
ID	441972

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The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Life
Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment
The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior
Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment
The Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families
Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers
The Essence of Becker
The Challenge of Immigration: A Radical Solution
An Economic Analysis of the Family
Human Capital and the Personal Distribution of Income: An Analytical Approach
Economic Theory
The Economics of Discrimination
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
A Treatise on the Family
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

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Gary Becker Life story

Gary Stanley Becker 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.

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