Gary S. Becker: the Economist as Empire-builder

J. R. Shackleton

Chapter 2 in Twelve Contemporary Economists, 1981, pp 12-32 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Few contemporary economists have done as much to extend the generality and range of economic theorising as Professor Gary S. Becker of the University of Chicago. With the exception of one or two papers written as a graduate student, all Becker’s publications have applied economic reasoning to aspects of human behaviour which have usually been classified as outside the scope of economics, at least since the discipline started to give itself scientific airs in the latter years of the nineteenth century.

Keywords: Labour Market; Human Capital; Opportunity Cost; Social Welfare Function; Household Production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05498-5_2

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