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Gary Becker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Gary Stanley Becker (born December 2, 1930) is an American economist. A professor at the University of Chicago, he won the 1992 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for "having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behavior and interaction, including non-market behavior". He is also a member of the Hoover Institution and the National Bureau of Economic Research. ..." |
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| 2 Dec 1930, Gary Stanley Becker, in Pottsville, Pennsylvania |
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| Biography |
Gary S. Becker - Autobiography
At Nobelprize.org |
| Gary Stanley Becker, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| Hoover Institution |
| Awards Received |
1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, granted by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Includes autobrography, prize lecture and banquet speech |
| Associations |
| Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution |
| President, 1990-92, Mont Pelerin Society |
| Blog |
The Becker-Posner Blog
Written jointly with Judge Richard A. Posner |
| Interviews |
Interview with Gary Becker, The Region, Jun 2002
Related Topic: Social Security Tax
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Banking and Policy Issues Magazine
"The present Social Security system is a mixture of an annuity and redistribution system. The redistribution system discourages many people from working at older ages when they are healthy enough and would want to continue working. Social Security gives them an incentive not to work because they are taxed so heavily on their earnings." |
