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Autobiography

Gary Becker

No 1992-2, Nobel Prize in Economics documents from Nobel Prize Committee

Abstract: I was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, a little coal mining town in Eastern Pennsylvania, where my father owned a small business. He had first gone into business for himself after leaving Montreal and his family for the United States when he was only sixteen-years old. He moved many times in the eastern United States before settling in Pottsville in the mid-1920s. My two sisters, Wendy and Natalie, and brother, Marvin, were also born there. However, when I was four or five we moved to Brooklyn, New York, where my father became a partner in another business.

Keywords: Autobiography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 pages
Date: 1993
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