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Gary Becker (1930–2014)

open access: yesScience, 2014
An economist used sociology and economics to examine life and explain human ...
Glaeser, Edward, Shleifer, Andrei
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Gary Becker on Free Banking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Gary Becker´s 1956 paper about free banking was originally intended as a reaction to the 100-percent reserve proposals that were then popular at the University of Chicago. Today the original paper clearly illustrates how considerably our views and theories about free banking have evolved in the past 50 years.
van den Hauwe, Ludwig
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gary becker - nobel prizewinner

Economic Affairs, 1993
Who is Gary Becker and why did he win the 1992 Nobel Prize for economics? J.R. Shackleton, of Westminster University, explains why Gary Becker has earned his high reputation as an economist and gives an outline of his major publications.
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GARY BECKER AND THE ART OF ECONOMICS

Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015
Gary Becker, an American economist, died on May 3, 2014, at the age of 83. His major contribution was the systematic application of economics to the analysis of social issues. He used economics to study discrimination, criminal behavior, human capital, marriage, fertility and other social issues.
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GARY BECKER ON HUMAN CAPITAL

Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015
Gary Becker’s work on “human capital” started around 1960. It was motivated by the rising interest in economic growth at the time. As stated in the introduction to the first edition of his book, Human Capital, “The origin of this study can be traced to the finding that a substantial growth in incomes in the US remains after the growth of physical ...
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Gary Becker as Teacher

American Economic Review, 2015
This paper looks at the work of Gary S. Becker, American economist, professor of sociology, friend, and colleague of Kevin M. Murphy. Murphy discusses the traditional approach of Becker's teaching and ideas as they were expressed through his wealth of content and style in course design; his discussions on the role of preferences, technology, and ...
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GARY BECKER’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ANALYSIS OF DISCRIMINATION

Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015
Becker analyzes racial discrimination given its existence; as we know from his 1977 paper with George Stigler, “De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum,” Becker felt that the determination of preferences was to be taken as given, at least from the standpoint of conducting neoclassical economic analysis.
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Gary Becker's Contributions to Law and Economics

The Journal of Legal Studies, 1993
GARY Becker's contributions to the law and economics movement have been very great; but this claim, although true, is likely to occasion some surprise, because he is not so commonly associated with law as such other Nobel laureates in economics as Ronald Coase, Freidrich von Hayek, James Buchanan, and George Stigler.
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Gary S. Becker

2023
Kurzbiographie von Gary S ...
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