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	Gary S. Becker - Nobel Prize
		Gary Becker's research program is founded on the idea that the behavior of an individual adheres to the same fundamental principles in a number of different areas.
		Gary Becker's most noteworthy contribution is perhaps to be found in the area of human capital, i.e., human competence, and the consequences of investments in human competence.
		Alongside Becker's analysis of the distribution of labor and allocation of time in the household, his most influential contribution in the context of the household and the family is probably his studies on fertility, which were initiated in an essay entitled, An Economic Analysis of Fertility, 1960.
	home.uchicago.edu /~gbecker/Nobel/nobel.html (1780 words)

	Hoover Institution - Becker, Gary S.
		Becker is recognized for his expertise in human capital, economics of the family, and economic analysis of crime, discrimination, and population.
		Becker was a professor at the University of Chicago from 1954 to 1957 and at Columbia University from 1957 to 1968.
		Becker received an A.B. (summa cum laude) from Princeton University in 1951, an A.M. from the University of Chicago in 1952, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1955.
	www.hoover.org /bios/becker (458 words)

	Gary Becker on the Family
		Becker's families seem to function as firms, but the people in firms always relate to the firms as individuals: either as owners or part-owners or as employees, with these relationships embodied in individual property ownership (wages, stocks, titles to property, etc.) which make individual rationality intelligible.
		Becker distinguishes his "economic analysis" of the family from the more conventional analysis of "economic aspects" of the family.
		Becker is as well-respected as he is in a field as powerful as economics, and even more so that he got a Nobel Prize of sorts primarily for this snarky, rather deranged book.
	www.idiocentrism.com /becker.htm (1754 words)

	Quotations from Chairman Gary Becker
		Becker left these two factors out here because the whole purpose of his exposition is to minimize them, and the reason he wants to minimize them is because he too suspects that they are the most important factors of all.
		Becker's book seems to me to be a mess of ideology, sophistry, and special pleading, salted here and there with misrepresentations of fact.
		It seems more suited to deception than to enlightenment, and some of Becker's little twists (for example, on the education of the poor, or on "deviant" family members) are so blatant and malicious that I have to regard them as deliberate, culpable violations of the principles of discursive decency.
	www.idiocentrism.com /becker2.htm (1714 words)

	Gary Becker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gary Stanley Becker (born December 2, 1930) is an American economist.
		Becker was one of the first economists to branch into what were traditionally considered topics belonging to sociology, including racial discrimination, crime, family organization, and drug addiction.
		Becker’s research was fundamental in arguing for the augmentability of human capital.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gary_Becker (1167 words)

	Becker Wrecking & Salvage Corp - Order November 24, 1992 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Becker Wrecking and Salvage Corp. and Gary Becker appeared by Rutnik and Rutnik (John Whelden and Kimberly Galvin, Esqs., of counsel) (however, no appearance was made on October 14, 1992).
		Respondent Becker Wrecking and Salvage Corporation ("Becker Wrecking") is a corporation incorporated in the State of New York having its principal office at the Port of Albany, Albany, N.Y. Respondent Gary Becker is President of Becker Wrecking and is responsible for its daily operations.
		Becker Wrecking and Gary Becker are "operators" of the solid waste management facility pursuant to 6 NYCRR 360-1.2 (Definitions) (b)(103) since they are "persons" [(b)(108)] in charge of the facility with the authority and knowledge to make and implement decisions regarding operating conditions at the facility.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/ohms/decis/beckero.htm (2998 words)

	The Becker Double Decker by Fred Foldvary
		Gary S. Becker is a free-market oriented professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago.
		And Gary Becker himself is an economic double-decker, with a scholarly deck for academic economics and a popular deck for the public.
		Gary Becker favors reducing the tax burden and the size of government, but does not go further and deeper in realizing and proposing a shift in taxation towards public revenue from rent, which does not burden the economy.
	www.progress.org /fold82.htm (806 words)

	Gary Becker
		Gary Becker was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvannia on December 2, 1930.
		It was at Columbia that Becker, along with Jacob Mincer, began performing extensive research on human capital and demonstrated that education is an asset to society.
		Becker was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1992 for "having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behavior and interaction, including nonmarket behavior.” His work includes seminal articles on the economics of discrimination, crime, family, drugs, and social interaction.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/becker.html (1945 words)

	Gary Stanley Becker, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Becker showed that discrimination would be less pervasive in more competitive industries because companies that discriminated would lose market share to companies that did not.
		Becker was a professor at Columbia University from 1957 to 1969.
		Becker won the John Bates Clark Award of the American Economic Association in 1967 and was president of that association in 1987.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Becker.html (641 words)

	The Weblog: Single Post View
		A question Becker does not ask is "Why would any rational modern individual choose to raise children?" Children are tremendously expensive, especially in opportunity cost, and at age 18 they're lost to you.
		This would seem to be both a defect of analysis (one which Becker has failed to correct) and a vulnerability of the system.
		But when Becker tries to extend the scope of economics to the family, which has not previously been treated in terms of rational choice, he avoids normative criticism entirely.
	www.adamkotsko.com /weblog/2006/06/gary-beckers-treatise-on-family.html (1155 words)

	RSNA.org: Gary J. Becker, MD
		Gary J. Becker, M.D., was elected at RSNA 2001 to a six-year term on the RSNA Board of Directors.
		Until May 2004, Dr. Becker was the assistant medical director of the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute at Baptist Hospital in Miami, Fla. In June 2004, he became the branch chief of image-guided intervention for the Cancer Imaging Program at the National Cancer Institute.
		Becker may be best known as an ardent supporter of interventional radiology.
	www.rsna.org /About/whoswho/becker.cfm (532 words)

	TIM HARFORD \| Lunch with the FT - Gary Becker
		Before he was 30, Becker presented to the American Economic Association his then- new idea of "human capital" (that people would invest in their own education as they might invest in shares, mindful of the rate of return).
		Becker has always loved sport, but that, and his family, seem to be his only distraction from work.
		Becker was ahead by a landslide in the raw number of citations, and unlike rivals who tended to produce just one or two famous ideas, he has published influential papers every decade for 50 years.
	www.timharford.com /favourites/becker.htm (1641 words)

	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis-The Region- Interview with Gary Becker (June 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Gary Becker's singular contribution has been to broaden the reach of economics into spheres it previously ignored and to thereby transform both those fields and economics itself.
		Becker has explored each of these phenomena with the underlying assumption that humans behave rationally—attempting to maximize their utility, however they define it, under whatever constraints they may face.
		Our interview with Gary Becker is fittingly broad, ranging from his views on moral hazard in banking, to the intriguing genesis of his work on the economics of crime, and the (mostly) rational decision-making that led to his becoming an economist.
	minneapolisfed.org /pubs/region/02-06/becker.cfm (6854 words)

	Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP - Gary M. Becker
		Becker's practice focuses primarily on the representation and counseling of creditors with respect to Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.
		Becker has represented clients before state public utilities commissions and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with respect to deregulation of the electric power industry and with respect to sales and decommissioning of various nuclear power plants. He has also represented clients in commercial and construction litigation in state and federal courts.
		Becker was a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, serving aboard nuclear submarines, and an engineer for Texas Instruments and General Electric.
	www.kramerlevin.com /gbecker (171 words)

	Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		My friend and colleague Gary Becker is arguably the most influential economist of the last fifty years.
		Becker came out head and shoulders ahead of any other economic theorist in terms of impact.
		Becker is not only the Michael Jordan of economics, he is the Gordie Howe of economics as well.
	www.freakonomics.com /2005/04/ode-to-gary-becker.html (769 words)

	Famous Coal Crackers - Gary S. Becker
		Gary Stanley Becker was born in 1930 in Pottsville.
		Becker received the Nobel Prize for Economics for "having extended the domain of economic theory to disciplines such as sociology, demography and criminology" and for showing that rational economic incentives influence decision making in "areas where researchers formerly assumed that behaviour is habitual and often downright irrational".
		Becker is currently Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago.
	www.coalregion.com /Famous/becker.htm (251 words)

	Capital Ideas: April 2006 - Introduction: Honoring Gary Becker
		A session in honor of Gary Becker was being held as part of an academic conference in California, and I was invited to give a talk.
		Becker was sitting in the front row at the session, participating actively as always.
		Although Gary Beckerâs name appears on only one of the research projects included in this issue, his influence on the work that all of us are doing here at the Initiative on Chicago Price Theoryâ”and in the profession more broadlyâ”is unmistakable.
	www.chicagogsb.edu /capideas/apr06/intro.aspx (1213 words)

	Amazon.com: The Economic Approach to Human Behavior: Books: Gary S. Becker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Becker's phrase "viewed as" in the second sentence together with this book's title suggest that he is not imputing the economist's utility-maximizing psychology to the participants, but rather is merely proposing an analytical "approach" to be taken by the social scientist.
		But Becker proposes subconscious rationality, which the reader is left to ponder, which is the approach/psychology ambiguity enabled by his identifying "rationality" with "functionality." He also claims that rational-choice theory is consistent with Robert Merton's distinction between manifest and latent functions, whereas in fact it is the negation of it.
		Gary Becker is one of the most brilliant economists of our time, especially when it come to applying economics principles to non traditional areas.
	www.amazon.com /Economic-Approach-Human-Behavior/dp/0226041123 (1672 words)

	Harvard University Press: A Treatise on the Family by Gary S. Becker
		Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decisions, such as choosing a spouse or having children.
		Becker extends the powerful tools of economic analysis to problems once considered the province of the sociologist, the anthropologist, and the historian.
		Gary S. Becker is University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/BECTRR.html (338 words)

	Freakonomics Blog » Guity Becker roasts Gary Becker
		One of the highlights of the recent conference we had honoring Gary Becker was a speech given by his wife, Guity Becker.
		Becker: No, you have to take right away, I have bought a new table and I don’t have room for this one.
		She was taken aback, and said, “I thought Gary Becker is an economist; that man was fascinating.
	www.freakonomics.com /blog/2006/04/16/guity-becker-roasts-gary-becker (996 words)

	Gary S. Becker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Gary S. Becker, the 1992 Nobel Laureate in economics, is best known for his seminal research on human capital theory.
		In addition, however, Becker has developed pioneering (and often controversial) work on the economics of discrimination, crime, marriage, divorce, and many other topics.
		This is the press release issued by the Nobel committee announcing Becker's Nobel Prize.
	college.hmco.com /economics/boyes_melvin/micro/student/becker.htm (80 words)

	KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Gary S. Becker
		Becker, G.S. Becker, G.N. The Economics of Life.
		Becker, G.S. /Murphy, K.M. A theory of rational addiction.
		Becker, G.S. The economic approach to human behavior.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/AuthPage/B/BeckerGS.html (136 words)

	Right-Web \| Individual Profile \| Gary S. Becker
		Gary Becker, the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics, is a conservative pundit and longtime proponent of reduced taxes and reduced government spending.
		Why Becker, an economist with little experience in foreign and military policy, was chosen to serve on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board is a minor mystery.
		From a Nobel Prize press release: "Gary Becker's research consists primarily of having extended the domain of economic theory to aspects of human behavior which had previously been dealt with -- if at all -- by other social science disciplines such as sociology, demography and criminology.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /ind/becker/becker.php (647 words)

	Harvard University Press: Accounting for Tastes by Gary S. Becker
		[Becker's] achievement has been to create an elegant structure, internally consistent and based on reasonable assumptions, and to use it to generate many testable propositions about how people grapple with the complexities of personal choice...[He] has helped to liberate economics from a straitjacket of oversimplification and narrowness of view.
		Gary Becker has used his regular economics column in Business Week to communicate economic truths in plain English and to apply them to the issues of the day...[In this] collection of scholarly essays, Becker applies technically sophisticated economic arguments to work habits, parental altruism and other matters.
		Becker's goal in explaining this role is to extend the assumption that individuals behave in ways that maximize utility based on preferences independent of past and future behaviors...Becker's work shows that economic theory can be fruitfully applied to a wide range of questions in the social sciences.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/BECACC.html?show=reviews (265 words)

	MilkenInstitute.Org > Events > > Speakers  >  Gary Becker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Gary Becker, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, is Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago.
		Becker was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 for extending the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behavior and interaction, including nonmarket behavior.
		Becker divided his time between Columbia University and the National Bureau of Economic Research for twelve years before returning to the University of Chicago.
	www.milkeninstitute.org /events/events.taf?function=show&cat=allconf&EventID=GC03&SPID=849&level1=speakers&level2=bio&ID=26 (191 words)

	The Becker-Posner Blog (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As Becker points out, despite the absence of good statistics there is no doubt that the Mexican crime rate is very high.
		Becker rightly stresses the corruption and incompetence of the Mexican police as an important factor in the crime rate.
		Becker has posed an intriguing question: if a woman thinks she would be better off as a second or third (or nth) wife rather than as a first and only wife, or not married at all, why should government intervene and prohibit the arrangement?
	www.becker-posner-blog.com.cob-web.org:8888 (9189 words)

	Hoover Institution - What's New - Hoover Senior Fellow Gary S. Becker on Economic Growth of India and China
		Becker is the Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago.
		Recognized for his expertise in human capital, economics of the family, and economic analysis of crime, discrimination, and population, Becker's current research focuses on habits and addictions, formation of preferences, human capital, and population growth.
		Becker, a featured monthly columnist for BusinessWeek magazine, recently began a web log with the Honorable Richard Posner at http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/.
	www.hoover.org /pubaffairs/whatsnew/2897581.html (402 words)

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