Gary S. Becker
Gary S. Becker
This chapter describes the work of Gary S. Becker as an economist of diverse interests, and as a Nobel Prize awardee. Becker was born in 1930 and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He was appointed professor of economics at Columbia University in 1960 and a senior research fellow at Hoover Institute (Stanford) in 1990, a position he held until 2014. His work revolved around four broad areas: investments in human capital; behavior of the family or household; crime and punishment; and discrimination in the markets for labor and goods. Most of his work involved the view that the economic approach to human behavior is valid and is “real” economics. His other interests related to public policy in education, addiction, discrimination, and politics. His publications include The Economic Approach to Human Behavior, The Economics of Life, and Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment (with K. Murphy).
Keywords: Gary S. Becker, investments in human capital, human behavior, Market Behavior
MIT Press Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
