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Gary Becker's Contributions in Health Economics [PDF]
Gary Becker's contributions to health economics started somewhat indirectly. The early development in human capital theory, to which Becker was one of the main contributors, had obvious implications to the analysis of expenditures on health, but were almost exclusively focused on schooling and training (Schultz 1960; Becker 1962, 1964).
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This essay commemorates Nobel Laureate Gary Becker, one of the most prominent and iconoclastic economists of the 20th century. At the same time, it is written with the utmost gratitude felt by a student for her teacher. Becker served as the chairman of my dissertation committee at the University of Chicago Law School in the years 1995-2000.
Tsaoussi, Aspasia
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The potentials and limitations of rational choice theory [PDF]
Gary S. Becker (Pennsylvania, 1930) is a university professor at the Departments of Economics, Sociology, and the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, Illinois.
Catherine Herfeld
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Foucault, Gary Becker and the Critique of Neoliberalism [PDF]
Although Foucault’s 1979 lectures on The Birth of Biopolitics promised to treat the theme of biopolitics, the course deals at length with neoliberalism while mentioning biopolitics hardly at all. Some scholars account for this elision by claiming that Foucault sympathized with neoliberalism; I argue on the contrary that Foucault develops a penetrating ...
Newheiser, David, David Newheiser
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Gary Becker dialogue avec Michel Foucault
Le débat intitulé "American neoliberalism & Michel Foucault's 1979 birth of biopolitics lectures: A conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt" s'est tenu à l'université de Chicago le 9~mai 2012. Bernard E.
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Gary Becker répond à Foucault sur l’analyse économique des crimes et des peines
Après un premier débat autour de la pensée néolibérale américaine de la Chicago School of Economics – traduit et publiée dans le numéro 3 de Socio (Becker, Ewald et Harcourt, 2014) – le regard de Gary Becker se retourne vers l’analyse économique de la ...
Bernard E. Harcourt
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Becker et Foucault sur les délits et les peines
Bernard E. Harcourt Nous allons aborder principalement la théorie économique du crime et du châtiment de Gary Becker (1968), et l’analyse par Foucault du travail de Becker dans le cours du 21 mars 1979 (Foucault, 2004 : 245-270). Nous en profiterons pour
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« Ce que je voudrais faire maintenant, annonce Foucault, le 1er février 1978, ce serait quelque chose que j’appellerais une histoire de la “gouvernementalité” » (Foucault, 2004 b : 111).
Bernard E. Harcourt
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Economic analysis of decision-making and human and Islamic values in choosing a spouse [PDF]
Gary Becker, as the creator of family economics, believes that humans maximize their utility in all their behaviors based on a set of stable preferences and an optimal amount of information.
SeyedAliReza Mirmajidy +2 more
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Effects of Energy Use on Socioeconomic Predictors in Africa: Synthesizing Evidence
The paper examined the effects of energy use on socioeconomic predictors in Africa. The Gary Becker hypothesis and the Michael Grossman demand for healthcare model were used to interact with energy related predictors on socioeconomic essentials.
Shobande Olatunji Abdul
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