My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
About Gary Becker
Gary Stanley Beckerwas an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
American economist (1930-2014)
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
American economist (1930-2014)
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
American economist (1930-2014)
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
American economist (1930-2014)
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
American economist (1930-2014)
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
American economist (1930-2014)
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
American economist (1930-2014)