Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist

James Heckman

American Economic Review, 2015, vol. 105, issue 5, 74-79

Abstract: This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential scholar.

JEL-codes: B31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20151106
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