Gary S. Becker (1930–2014)

Pedro N. Teixeira ()
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Pedro N. Teixeira: University of Porto

Chapter 32 in The Palgrave Companion to Chicago Economics, 2022, pp 817-840 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Gary Becker was one of the most influential and controversial economists of the second half of the twentieth century, especially in his role as the leading advocate of the so-called economics imperialism. Becker played a major role in the widespread adoption of a large body of technical apparatus used in price theory and econometrics as well as a variety of other topics that are not usually addressed by economists. In this chapter, we will analyse Becker’s career and efforts to develop what would become known as the “economic approach to human behaviour”, one which he considered to be more a method of analysis rather than an assumption about human motivations. We will also discuss his main contributions to economics and his impact on the discipline and beyond.

Keywords: Gary Becker; Chicago economics; Economics imperialism; Columbia; Human capital; Social interactions; Preferences; Rationality; Markets; Family; Crime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-01775-9_32

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